23 Top mystery books like The Man Who Read Mysteries by William Brittain

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The Man Who Read Mysteries

By: William Brittain

4.23

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been worth the wait. One of the authors most requested by Crippen & Landru readers throughout …

If you liked the mystery plot in The Man Who Read Mysteries by William Brittain , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. Motives for Murder, A Celebration of Peter Lovesey on His 80th Birthday

By: Martin Edwards , Peter Lovesey

2.43

Format: None pages,

Members of London's famed Detection Club have joined together to honor Peter Lovesey, winner multip… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories

2. The Last Moriarty (A Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery #1)

By: Charles Veley

3.55

Format: 112 pages,

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3. Nothing is Impossible: Further Problems of Dr Sam Hawthorne

By: Edward D. Hoch

3.86

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a New England country doctor in the first half of the twentieth century, was con… read more

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4. The Velvet Touch

By: Edward D. Hoch

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Edward D. Hoch's latest collection contains 14 stories about Nick Velvet, the choosey crook who ste… read more

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5. The Four False Weapons (Henri Bencolin, #5)

By: John Dickson Carr

5.00

Format: 298 pages,

Henri Bencolin, a French detective comes out of retirement to help solve the strange murder of a Pa… read more

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6. Murder in the Locked Library (Book Retreat Mysteries, #4)

By: Ellery Adams

3.92

Format: 289 pages, Mass Market Paperback

With her twins, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, back in school, Jane Steward can finally focus on her wor… read more

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  • mystery
"I’m an addict. A junkie. A hoarder. I openly admit to having a serious problem when it comes to books."

-Ellery Adams, Murder in the Locked Library (Book Retreat Mysteries, #4)

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7. The Case of the Canterfell Codicil (Anty Boisjoly Mysteries, #1)

By: P.J. Fitzsimmons

4.13

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

In The Case of the Canterfell Codicil, Wodehousian gadabout and clubman Anty Boisjoly takes on his … read more

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  • mystery
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8. A Killer at the Castle (Lady Ellen Investigates #2)

By: Kelly Mason

4.40

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Can Lady Ellen of Ashcombe Hall finally savour a relaxing break at Millars Hotel? Not quite. Her pl… read more

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9. The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies su… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4) by Seishi Yokomizo

10. Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the i… read more

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  • mystery
"Poverty is the mother of crime. If people are poor, they lose all sense of shame, and behave appallingly."

-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

"Mảnh trăng lưỡi liềm mùng mười còn treo trên sườn núi Suribachi, bầu trời lấp lánh muôn ánh sao. Sông Ngân kéo chiếc đuôi dài thượt ngang qua, có thể thấy thấp thoáng quầng sáng trắng sữa. Đảo Ngục M…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

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11. Murder at Little Minton (Miss Busby #1)

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Miss Busby Murder at Little Minton. Book One in the Miss Busby Series. A picturesque Cotswolds v… read more

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  • mystery
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12. Murder at Ashton Steeple (Heathcliff Lennox, #10)

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin

4.57

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder, Mystery and a dog, and cat, of distinctionBook 10 in the Heathcliff Lennox series.A man sho… read more

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  • mystery
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13. Death and the Conjuror (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #1)

By: Tom Mead

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A magician-turned-sleuth in pre-war London solves three impossible crimes. In 1930s London, cele… read more

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  • mystery
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14. The Man Who Read Mysteries

By: William Brittain

4.23

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been worth the wait. One of the authors most requested by Crippen & Landru readers throughout … read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
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15. Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

By: Peter Lovesey

3.94

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

Be cautious; reading too many of Peter Lovesey's stories at once could have unexpected results. "Pa… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
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16. Hoch's Ladies

By: Edward D. Hoch

4.05

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Hoch created many series characters, Among them were Dr. Sam Hawthorne, Jeffery Rand, Nick Velvet, … read more

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  • mystery
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17. Village Fetes Can Be Murder (Saffron Weald #1)

By: Ann Sutton

4.36

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

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18. The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.83

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

The third title in Japan’s most popular murder mystery series — after The Honjin Murders and The In… read more

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  • mystery
"The only person who had not touched the pickles was me! I never did like pickles..."

-Seishi Yokomizo, The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)

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19. The Tangled Treasure Trail (Lord Edgington Investigates, #5)

By: Benedict Brown

4.45

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

High-speed treasure hunts, wild parties, and a string of murders to investigate – it's just a norma… read more

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  • mystery
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20. The Noh Mask Murder

By: Akimitsu Takagi

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in t… read more

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  • mystery
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21. The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women

By: Lisa Perrin

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A feast for the senses, this sumptuously illustrated book will introduce you to some of the most in… read more

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22. The Birdcage Murders (Heathcliff Lennox, #8)

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin

4.56

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder, Mystery and a dog of distinction Major Heathcliff Lennox is called in, along with ex Det… read more

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  • mystery
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23. The Devil's Playground

By: Craig Russell

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, … read more

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  • mystery
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24. The Author is Dead

By: A. Carver

3.82

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A new generation of mystery fans are trapped in a castle, and the author is dead. So begins a fair-… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Something Wicked (Andrew Basnett) by E.X. Ferrars

25. Something Wicked (Andrew Basnett)

By: E.X. Ferrars

3.82

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

A retired botanist comes to stay in a charming English village, where murder and blackmail disturb … read more

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  • mystery
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26. Cat's Paw (An American Mystery Classic)

By: Roger Scarlett

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Martin Greenough’s walled-off mansion is the last remaining holdout in the Boston parkland known as… read more

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  • mystery
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27. The Rhyme of the Magpie (Birds of a Feather Mystery #1)

By: Marty Wingate

4.05

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

One for sorrow. Two for joy. Three for murder? Meet Julia ‘Jools’ Lanchester. Lover of fine wine… read more

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  • mystery
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28. Out Of Print (Old Bookstore Cozy Mystery, #1)

By: Isabella Bassett

3.98

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

She pictured a slow-paced life nestled in the foothills of the Swiss Alps. Instead, she found a cur… read more

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  • mystery
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29. The Killer Everyone Knew and Other Captain Leopold Stories

By: Edward D. Hoch

4.75

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

In our nearly thirty years of publishing the best of Ed Hoch's short stories, we've neglected Capta… read more

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30. Challenge the Impossible

By: Edward D. Hoch

4.21

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

We ve saved the best for last! Follow Dr. Sam Hawthorne through the war years, a time that he calle… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
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31. All But Impossible: The Impossible Files of Dr. Sam Hawthorne

By: Edward D. Hoch

4.29

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

Northmont, Connecticut, seemed to be haunted by ghosts, ghouls, and impossibilities, until Dr. Sam … read more

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  • mystery

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John Dickson Carr

3.91

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3.75

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