17 must-read fiction books like The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner

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The Count of 9

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.99

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

From the world-famous creator of "Perry Mason," Erle Stanley Gardner comes another baffling case fo…

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Cover of The Twenty-Year Death (Hard Case Crime #108) by Ariel S. Winter

1. The Twenty-Year Death (Hard Case Crime #108)

By: Ariel S. Winter

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

THERE'S NEVER BEEN A BOOK LIKE THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH A breathtaking first novel written in the form… read more

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  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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2. The Cincinnati Red Stalkings

By: Troy Soos

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
Cover of The Guards (Jack Taylor, #1) by Ken Bruen

3. The Guards (Jack Taylor, #1)

By: Ken Bruen

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Siochana--the Guards, Ireland's police … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of Flying Blind (Nathan Heller #10) by Max Allan Collins

4. Flying Blind (Nathan Heller #10)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Hardcover

The intrepid fictional Nathan Heller discovers the truth behind the disappearance of famed aviatrix… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's Flying Blind (Nathan Heller #10) book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. The Barbarous Coast

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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6. The Moving Target

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshi… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

7. The Tomb That Ruth Built

By: Troy Soos

4.27

Format: 67 pages, ebook

The Roaring Twenties: America is dancing to jazz, gangsters are selling bootleg liquor, and the New… read more

Similar categories in Troy Soos's The Tomb That Ruth Built book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • mystery
  • historical

8. The Other Side of Silence (Bernie Gunther, #11)

By: Philip Kerr

3.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much anticipated return of Bernie Gunther i… read more

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9. Wife or Death

By: Ellery Queen , Richard Deming

4.67

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

A journalist accused of murdering his unfaithful wife searches for the real killer Angel Denton's e… read more

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10. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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11. Brainquake (Hard Case Crime #116)

By: Samuel Fuller

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

The bagmen who transport money for organized crime live by a special set of rules: no relationships… read more

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12. Gun Monkeys

By: Victor Gischler

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Charlie Swift just pumped three .38-caliber bullets into a dead polar bear in his taxidermist girlf… read more

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13. The Cocktail Waitress (Hard Case Crime #109)

By: James M. Cain

5.00

Format: None pages,

Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is f… read more

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14. Nobody's Angel (Hard Case Crime, #65)

By: Jack Clark

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

While Chicago cabbie Eddie Miles drives the city streets at midnight, two killers--one targeting pr… read more

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15. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more

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16. Prussian Blue (Bernie Gunther, #12)

By: Philip Kerr

4.26

Format: None pages, ebook

From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther, … read more

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17. The Way Some People Die

By: Ross Macdonald

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Arch… read more

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18. Quarry (Quarry, #1)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Broker deals in murder on the open market with the assistance of a highly paid precise killer named… read more

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19. Hunting A Detroit Tiger

By: Troy Soos

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

It's 1920, and all Mickey Rawlings wants is a .250 batting average, 20 stolen bases, and a regular … read more

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20. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • mystery
  • crime
  • pulp
  • fiction
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21. Charlesgate Confidential

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.10

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

"CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL is terrific" - Stephen KingA breathtakingly clever, twist-filled narrativ… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"I’ve got the Halloween soundtrack here somewhere,"

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"It was all like a movie—hell, it was a whole damn film festival."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"His story was incredible—literally, in the sense that it was not credible."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"Jackie wasn’t just out of my league—we weren’t even playing the same sport."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

Cover of The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner

22. The Count of 9

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.99

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

From the world-famous creator of "Perry Mason," Erle Stanley Gardner comes another baffling case fo… read more

Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9 book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • detective
  • pulp
  • historical
  • pulp noir
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of A Cruel Deception (Bess Crawford, #11) by Charles Todd

23. A Cruel Deception (Bess Crawford, #11)

By: Charles Todd

3.98

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford attempts to save a troubled former soldier fro… read more

Similar categories in Charles Todd's A Cruel Deception (Bess Crawford, #11) book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
Cover of Too Many Bullets by Max Allan Collins

24. Too Many Bullets

By: Max Allan Collins

4.16

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed "True Crime" detective Nathan Heller, whose cases have sold more than 1 million copies, r… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's Too Many Bullets book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of Understudy for Death by Charles Willeford

25. Understudy for Death

By: Charles Willeford

3.20

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Charles Willeford's legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication in 1961.AN UNF… read more

Similar categories in Charles Willeford's Understudy for Death book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • pulp
  • pulp noir
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Double Feature by Donald E. Westlake

26. Double Feature

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake was also an Academy Award Nominee—for th… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Double Feature book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Well, she was dead, and there was no use crying over spilt milk."

-Donald E. Westlake, Double Feature

Cover of The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime) by Robert Silverberg

27. The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

By: Robert Silverberg

3.31

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didn't commit in the long-lost crime novel… read more

Similar categories in Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime) book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
Cover of So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime) by Oakley Hall

28. So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

By: Oakley Hall

3.79

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

The legendary lost crime novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Oakley Hall, instructor of Ann Rice, Am… read more

Similar categories in Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime) book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates

29. The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

By: Joyce Carol Oates

2.77

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

What makes Oates so interesting is that she uncovers the universal core within a unique happening. … read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Seed on the Wind (Hard Case Crime) by Rex Stout

30. Seed on the Wind (Hard Case Crime)

By: Rex Stout

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

One woman, four men, countless temptations on the streets of New York. This lost novel from legenda… read more

Similar categories in Rex Stout's Seed on the Wind (Hard Case Crime) book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Kiss and Kill by Ellery Queen

31. Kiss and Kill

By: Ellery Queen

3.44

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

When his wife disappears without a trace, a desperate man turns to Chicago’s toughest PI for help i… read more

Similar categories in Ellery Queen's Kiss and Kill book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Count of 9

  • mystery
  • fiction

18 Top mystery books like The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner

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The Twenty-Year Death (Hard Case Crime #108)

Ariel S. Winter

4.35

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The Cincinnati Red Stalkings

Troy Soos

4.10

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The Guards (Jack Taylor, #1)

Ken Bruen

3.89

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Flying Blind (Nathan Heller #10)

Max Allan Collins

4.00

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Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36)

Rex Stout , Stephen Greenleaf

4.23

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Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

Raymond Chandler

4.10

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The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

Raymond Chandler

4.19

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Donald E. Westlake

3.56

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