18 best-selling fiction books like Patrick Butler for the Defence by John Dickson Carr

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Patrick Butler for the Defence

By: John Dickson Carr

3.40

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

Who was the funny little man in the green fez with the dancing tassel? And what business had he sto…

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Cover of Antidote to Venom by Freeman Wills Crofts

1. Antidote to Venom

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

3.63

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage is collap… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Plague Court Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #1) by Carter Dickson

2. The Plague Court Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #1)

By: Carter Dickson

3.84

Format: 224 pages,

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of My Late Wives (Sir Henry Merrivale, #17) by Carter Dickson, Nils Jacobsson

3. My Late Wives (Sir Henry Merrivale, #17)

By: Carter Dickson , Nils Jacobsson

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Voodoo Drums! Dennis's dreams vibrated with their message of death... Suddenly a hand touched his h… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Unicorn Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #4) by Carter Dickson

4. The Unicorn Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #4)

By: Carter Dickson

3.60

Format: 404 pages,

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Nine and Death Makes Ten (Sir Henry Merrivale, #11) by Carter Dickson

5. Nine and Death Makes Ten (Sir Henry Merrivale, #11)

By: Carter Dickson

4.04

Format: 417 pages,

Death sails aboard the Edwardic. "Douse that light!" bawled a voice almost directly in his ear. He … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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6. The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

By: Otto Penzler

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Have yourself a crooked little Christmas with The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries. Edgar Award-winn… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Reader Is Warned (Sir Henry Merrivale, #9) by Carter Dickson

7. The Reader Is Warned (Sir Henry Merrivale, #9)

By: Carter Dickson

3.50

Format: 24 pages,

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (Sir Henry Merrivale, #16) by John Dickson Carr, Carter Dickson

8. The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (Sir Henry Merrivale, #16)

By: John Dickson Carr , Carter Dickson

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

A curse shall befall anyone who takes the bronze lamp out of Egypt, so a seer has said. Lady Helen … read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of He Wouldn't Kill Patience (Sir Henry Merrivale, #15) by Carter Dickson

9. He Wouldn't Kill Patience (Sir Henry Merrivale, #15)

By: Carter Dickson

3.58

Format: 366 pages,

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction

10. Death in Five Boxes (Sir Henry Merrivale, #7)

By: Carter Dickson

3.77

Format: 300 pages,

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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11. The Tattoo Murder Case

By: Akimitsu Takagi , Deborah Boliver Boehm

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Skeleton in the Clock (Sir Henry Merrivale, #18) by Carter Dickson

12. The Skeleton in the Clock (Sir Henry Merrivale, #18)

By: Carter Dickson

3.83

Format: None pages,

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

13. She Died a Lady (Sir Henry Merrivale, #14)

By: Carter Dickson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Dr. Luke," said Rita Wainright, "I'm terribly, horribly in love with Barry Sullivan." "What about … read more

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14. The Gilded Man (Sir Henry Merrivale, #13)

By: Carter Dickson

4.00

Format: None pages,

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15. The Judas Window (Sir Henry Merrivale, #8)

By: Carter Dickson

4.00

Format: None pages,

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16. The Red Widow Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #3)

By: Carter Dickson

4.00

Format: None pages,

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17. The Peacock Feather Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #6)

By: Carter Dickson

4.89

Format: 78 pages,

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18. The Complete Fairy Tales

By: Oscar Wilde

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Pri… read more

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19. Night at the Mocking Widow (Sir Henry Merrivale, #20)

By: Carter Dickson

3.44

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

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20. The Cavalier's Cup (Sir Henry Merrivale, #22)

By: Carter Dickson

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

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21. The Bowstrings Murders

By: Carter Dickson

3.91

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

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22. The Lake District Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #1)

By: John Bude

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a body is found at an isolated garage, Inspector Meredith is drawn into a complex investigatio… read more

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23. The 12:30 from Croydon

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

3.85

Format: None pages,

'Crofts constructs his alibi with immense elaboration...The story is highly successful, and Mr Crof… read more

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24. A Graveyard to Let (Sir Henry Merrivale, #19)

By: Carter Dickson

4.33

Format: 192 pages,

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Cover of Murder In The Basement (Roger Sheringham Cases, #8) by Anthony Berkeley

25. Murder In The Basement (Roger Sheringham Cases, #8)

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.57

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY.Roger and Molly Dane have something of a surprise in their new house. Wh… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Berkeley's Murder In The Basement (Roger Sheringham Cases, #8) book and John Dickson Carr's Patrick Butler for the Defence

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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26. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

Cover of Death and the Conjuror (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #1) by Tom   Mead

27. 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
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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28. Patrick Butler for the Defence

By: John Dickson Carr

3.40

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

Who was the funny little man in the green fez with the dancing tassel? And what business had he sto… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts

29. Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

3.82

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

When young Cheyne finds things going wrong and a dangerous gang of criminals unpleasantly intereste… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Murder in the Crooked House (Kiyoshi Mitarai, #2) by Sōji Shimada

30. Murder in the Crooked House (Kiyoshi Mitarai, #2)

By: Sōji Shimada

3.55

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Bats in the Belfry (Robert MacDonald #13) by E.C.R. Lorac

31. Bats in the Belfry (Robert MacDonald #13)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.74

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Bruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels—but his early promise did … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

18 best-selling mystery books like Patrick Butler for the Defence by John Dickson Carr

Transform Your Habits

Antidote to Venom

Freeman Wills Crofts

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Plague Court Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #1)

Carter Dickson

3.84

Transform Your Habits

My Late Wives (Sir Henry Merrivale, #17)

Carter Dickson , Nils Jacobsson

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Unicorn Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #4)

Carter Dickson

3.60

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20 must-read fiction books like Death and the Conjuror (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #1) by Tom Mead

Transform Your Habits

He Who Whispers (Dr. Gideon Fell, #16)

John Dickson Carr

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

Sophie Hannah

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

Robert Thorogood

3.92

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