20 must-read fiction books like Murder on “B” Deck (Walter Ghost #1) by Vincent Starrett

Cover of Murder on “B” Deck (Walter Ghost #1) by Vincent Starrett

Murder on “B” Deck (Walter Ghost #1)

By: Vincent Starrett

3.40

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

For the passengers aboard the Latakia, the transatlantic journey from New York to Cherbourg promise…

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Cover of The Benson Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #1) by S.S. Van Dine

1. The Benson Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #1)

By: S.S. Van Dine

3.46

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

The Benson Murder Case is the first novel in the Philo Vance series of mystery novels by S. S. Van … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • 20th century
  • 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
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) by Ngaio Marsh

3. The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ngaio Marsh's bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Do you read crime fiction?"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"They do a certain amount of mischief, they're an almighty nuisance, but as murderers I've no real faith in the British anarchist."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"Nash, who carried in his head a sort of social ladder, had quietly decided that police officers of all ranks were to be graded with piano tuners."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"... In our midst—in our very midst, Matron—are secret agents, secret societies, powers of evil known to the Yard but unsuspected by the general public. Mercifully so." He stopped short, folded his ar…"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

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4. McKee of Centre Street

By: Helen Reilly

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

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  • mystery
Cover of The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players (Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery, #3) by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

5. The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players (Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery, #3)

By: Phoebe Atwood Taylor

3.70

Format: 186 pages,

Asey Mayo tries to find out why someone has killed a traveling magician who seemed irresistible to … read more

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  • mystery
  • golden age mystery
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6. The Red House Mystery

By: A.A. Milne

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyor… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

7. Death at the Chateau Bremont (A Verlaque and Bonnet Mystery, #1)

By: M.L. Longworth

3.61

Format: 8 pages,

Introducing a seductive new mystery series set in Provence-featuring chief magistrate Antoine Verla… read more

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8. Deadline at Dawn

By: Cornell Woolrich , William Irish

3.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

They meet after midnight in a dance hall: two young innocents from the midwest, trapped in New York… read more

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

By: Carter Dickson

4.00

Format: None pages,

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10. The Birthday Murder

By: Lange Lewis

3.50

Format: 519 pages, Paperback

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11. Headed for a Hearse (Bill Crane #2)

By: Jonathan Latimer

3.84

Format: 467 pages,

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12. The Eight of Swords (Dr. Gideon Fell, #3)

By: John Dickson Carr

4.03

Format: 288 pages,

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13. Hidden Order (Scot Harvath, #12)

By: Brad Thor

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

The most secretive organization in America operates without accountability to the American people. … read more

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14. The Penguin Pool Murder (Hildegarde Withers #1)

By: Stuart Palmer

3.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Spinster sleuth and school teacher, Hildegarde Withers, meets up with Inspector Oscar Piper at a mu… read more

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Cover of Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9) by Anthony Berkeley

15. Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.77

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

When a murder is committed at a party given in honour of a famous writer-detective, the guests impe… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

16. The Cape Cod Mystery (Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery, #1)

By: Phoebe Atwood Taylor

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Set within the brooding landscape of Cape Code, these classic who-dunits are sure to please dedicat… read more

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17. Death of a Bookseller

By: Bernard J. Farmer

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A rare gem of the mystery genre makes its first return to print since 1956 An honest policeman, Se… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
"Jack, I'm going to tell you a story. A runner took a book to a famous dealer and said: 'I've got something rare here.' 'Yes,' replied the dealer, 'but customers who want it are rarer.' Then my book i…"

-Bernard J. Farmer, Death of a Bookseller

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18. Murder After Christmas

By: Rupert Latimer

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An ingenious lost Christmas mystery returns to print for the first time since 1944 'Did you say … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac

19. Post After Post-Mortem

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.00

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, revi… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Murder Wheel (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #2) by Tom   Mead

20. The Murder Wheel (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #2)

By: Tom Mead

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In London, 1938, young and idealistic lawyer Edmund Ibbs is trying to find any shred of evidence th… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of Death and the Conjuror (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #1) by Tom   Mead

21. 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 thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5) by Seishi Yokomizo

22. The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.89

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of crime. Amid the rubb… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Cat Saw Murder by Dolores Hitchens

23. The Cat Saw Murder

By: Dolores Hitchens

3.55

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rachel Murdock and her sister Jennifer receive a call for help from their favorite niece, Lill… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi

24. 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
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Murder on “B” Deck (Walter Ghost #1) by Vincent Starrett

25. Murder on “B” Deck (Walter Ghost #1)

By: Vincent Starrett

3.40

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

For the passengers aboard the Latakia, the transatlantic journey from New York to Cherbourg promise… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Great Mistake by Mary Roberts Rinehart

26. The Great Mistake

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

4.00

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder leads to scandal at a wealthy woman’s mansion in this mystery from a New York Times–bestsell… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Obelists at Sea (Michael Lord #1) by C. Daly King

27. Obelists at Sea (Michael Lord #1)

By: C. Daly King

3.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

C. Daly King’s debut mystery is a tale of murder, travel, and psychiatry set aboard a luxury transa… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • 20th century
Cover of Death on the Aisle (Mr. and Mrs. North #4) by Frances Lockridge

28. Death on the Aisle (Mr. and Mrs. North #4)

By: Frances Lockridge

3.65

Format: 170 pages, Leather Bound

Broadway is undeniably a graveyard, but more often of men's hopes than men's bodies. And it is almo… read more

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  • classics
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"You read too much, Mr. Kirk," Weigand told him. "Such men get foolish ideas."

-Frances Lockridge, Death on the Aisle (Mr. and Mrs. North #4)

Cover of Cat's Paw (An American Mystery Classic) by Roger Scarlett

29. 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 thriller
  • classics
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of The Case of the Seven Whistlers (Thomas Littlejohn #6) by George Bellairs

30. The Case of the Seven Whistlers (Thomas Littlejohn #6)

By: George Bellairs

4.05

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

A body in a trunk draws Thomas Littlejohn of Scotland Yard to a peculiar English village On a cobbl… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • 20th century
Cover of S.S. Murder by Q. Patrick

31. S.S. Murder

By: Q. Patrick

3.62

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s homicide on the high seas in this “A 1 mystery” by the Edgar Award–winning author who wrote th… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

14 Best classics books like Murder on “B” Deck (Walter Ghost #1) by Vincent Starrett

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The Benson Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #1)

S.S. Van Dine

3.46

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Carter Dickson

3.84

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Ngaio Marsh

3.71

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A.A. Milne

4.17

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Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Christianna Brand

3.55

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Christianna Brand

3.69

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The Sussex Downs Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #2)

Martin Edwards , John Bude

4.72

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Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)

Anthony Berkeley

3.77

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