14 Best classics books like The Donnington Affair by Max Pemberton

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The Donnington Affair

By: Max Pemberton

2.89

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

The Donnington Affair was first published in the October edition of The Premier magazine. The story…

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Cover of Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15) by Agatha Christie

1. Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

By: Agatha Christie

3.96

Format: 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players! Mr. Shaitana wa… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
"I have always disapproved of murder."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?"

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

Cover of The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew (ASV Red Letter Edition) by Anonymous, Matthew the Apostle

2. The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew (ASV Red Letter Edition)

By: Anonymous , Matthew the Apostle

4.58

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

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  • classics
"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew (ASV Red Letter Edition)

"So the last will be first, and the first will be last."

-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew (ASV Red Letter Edition)

"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."

-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew (ASV Red Letter Edition)

"You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved."

-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew (ASV Red Letter Edition)

Cover of Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12) by Margery Allingham

3. Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

By: Margery Allingham

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Albert Campion returns from three years’ work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his m… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
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4. The Return of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

The Return of Sherlock Holmesis a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • short stories
Cover of That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3) by C.S. Lewis

5. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more

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  • classics
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6. The Tragedy of X

By: Ellery Queen , Barnaby Ross

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

New York City, the early 30's. A man is poisoned on a crowded streetcar during rush hour. Everyone … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle, Peter Ackroyd, Ed Glinert

7. The Sign of Four

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Peter Ackroyd , Ed Glinert

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sher… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
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8. Coal River

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this vibrant new historical novel, the acclaimed author of The Plum Tree and What She Left Behin… read more

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9. The Red Headed League (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #2)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.54

Format: None pages, Audio Cassette

In The Redheaded League, Holmes is engaged upon two seemingly unrelated cases, a daring bank robber… read more

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  • classics
  • crime
  • short stories

10. Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

By: Agatha Christie

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • short stories
Cover of The Boscombe Valley Mystery (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #4) by Arthur Conan Doyle

11. The Boscombe Valley Mystery (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #4)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.75

Format: None pages,

Lestrade summons Holmes to a community in Herefordshire, where a local land owner has been murdered… read more

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  • classics
  • crime
  • short stories

12. The Winter Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #12)

By: S.S. Van Dine , Willard Huntington Wright

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

It was characteristic of Willard Huntington Wright, known to the great public as S. S. Van Dine, th… read more

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13. The Chestermarke Instinct

By: J.S. Fletcher

3.29

Format: None pages,

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14. The Valley of Fear

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , David Timson

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Audio CD

The Sherlock Holmes series read in unabridged form by David Timson is widely regarded as one of the… read more

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15. The Purloined Letter

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.00

Format: 468 pages, Library Binding

The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his t… read more

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16. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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  • classics
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

17. The Franchise Affair (Inspector Alan Grant, #3)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Mar… read more

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18. The Scarab Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #5)

By: S.S. Van Dine , Willard Huntington Wright

3.84

Format: 523 pages, Hardcover

Philo Vance was drawn into the Scarab murder case by sheer coincidence, although there is little do… read more

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19. A Case of Identity (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #3)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Edward Raleigh

3.76

Format: None pages, Audio

Who is the wealthy Miss Mary Sutherland? More importantly, does she share a connection to the disap… read more

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20. The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dus… read more

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21. Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)

By: Agatha Christie

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now th… read more

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22. Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot, #7.5)

By: Agatha Christie , Charles Osborne

3.59

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Inventor Sir Claude Amory feels a bitter taste in the mouth, when the new formula for explosive mat… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
"the truth is never horrible, only interesting."

-Agatha Christie, Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot, #7.5)

"Poirot thought it not quite professional to begin a routine working day before ten."

-Agatha Christie, Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot, #7.5)

23. Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple, #13)

By: Agatha Christie

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts t… read more

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Cover of Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2) by C.S. Lewis

24. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.00

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more

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  • classics
"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

Cover of The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop by Fannie Flagg

25. The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop

By: Fannie Flagg

4.10

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author returns to the small town at the heart of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle St… read more

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"They wolfed wolfly in the wolf den."

-Fannie Flagg, The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop

"You know, life can be hard sometimes. And I sort of think animals are little gifts the good Lord sends to help us get through it. Lady sure did that for me."

-Fannie Flagg, The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop

Cover of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

26. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Cover of The Clockmaker's Secret (Slim Hardy Mysteries, #2) by Jack Benton

27. The Clockmaker's Secret (Slim Hardy Mysteries, #2)

By: Jack Benton

4.22

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

A buried clock holds the key to a decades-old mystery. On holiday to escape the nightmares of his … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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28. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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Cover of Seeing Sound (Tasting Madness, #1) by Albany Walker

29. Seeing Sound (Tasting Madness, #1)

By: Albany Walker

4.21

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

I’m starting over. Moving to a new town to start college, where I can try to be normal. Or at le… read more

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30. The Paradise Mystery

By: J.S. Fletcher

3.63

Format: 108 pages, Kindle Edition

A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
Cover of The Donnington Affair by G.K. Chesterton

31. The Donnington Affair

By: G.K. Chesterton

2.89

Format: 18 pages, Kindle Edition

In the October 1914 issue of the British magazine The Premier, Sir Max Pemberton published the firs… read more

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  • classics
  • crime
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