11 must-read classics books like The Great Mistake by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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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…

If you liked the classics plot in The Great Mistake by Mary Roberts Rinehart , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Case Is Closed (Miss Silver, #2) by Patricia Wentworth

1. The Case Is Closed (Miss Silver, #2)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.86

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

The Everton murder case has long been closed. The culprit has been charged with the murder of his u… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"And if you, Miss Hilary, could blow up that fire and put on a kettle, we will make her a nice cup of tea. In fact I think we all should all be the better of a nice cup of tea."

-Patricia Wentworth, The Case Is Closed (Miss Silver, #2)

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

2. 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
  • 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
  • audiobook
"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 Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5) by Ngaio Marsh

5. Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Death served well-chilled The leading lady of a theater company touring New Zealand was stunning… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"What do you think, Mr Alleyn? If there's another war will the young chaps come at it, same as we did, thinking it's great? And get the same jolt? What do you reckon?" "I'm afraid to speculate," said …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

"My poor fat Alfie! He was not a romantic husband, but he was so kind and understanding. He never minded whether I was amusing or dull. He thought it impossible that I could be dull. I didn't have to …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

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6. Miraculous Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

2.00

Format: 238 pages,

Impossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective … read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction

7. The Wall

By: John Hersey

3.50

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Riveting & compelling, The Walltells the inspiring story of forty men & women who escape the dehuma… read more

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8. Artists in Crime (Roderick Alleyn, #6)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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9. Nil (Nil, #1)

By: Lynne Matson

4.32

Format: 224 pages, ebook

On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days--to escape,… read more

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10. The Case of the Rolling Bones

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Years ago Alden Leeds found a rich vein of gold in the Klondike. Now his greedy relatives fear he's… read more

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11. 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

Similar categories in Bernard J. Farmer's Death of a Bookseller book and Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Great Mistake

  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • 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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12. The Last Hope

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All will be revealed in the no-holds-barred finale of the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Awar… read more

Similar categories in Susan Elia MacNeal's The Last Hope book and Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Great Mistake

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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13. The Yorkshire Moorland Mystery

By: J.S. Fletcher

3.93

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

A famous American book collector is found dead, at the bottom of Herlesdem Scar on the lonley Yorsh… read more

Similar categories in J.S. Fletcher's The Yorkshire Moorland Mystery book and Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Great Mistake

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

14. 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

Similar categories in Vincent Starrett's Murder on “B” Deck (Walter Ghost #1) book and Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Great Mistake

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

15. 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

Similar categories in Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Great Mistake book and Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Great Mistake

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

16. 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
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of A Wreath of Red Roses (Heathcliff Lennox, #9) by Karen Baugh Menuhin

17. A Wreath of Red Roses (Heathcliff Lennox, #9)

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin

4.60

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder, Mystery and a dog, and cat, of distinctionBook 9 in the Heathcliff Lennox seriesA mediaeval… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Death on the Aisle (Mr. and Mrs. North #4) by Frances Lockridge

18. 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
  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • 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 The Alarm of the Black Cat (The Rachel Murdock Mysteries) by Dolores Hitchens

19. The Alarm of the Black Cat (The Rachel Murdock Mysteries)

By: Dolores Hitchens

3.42

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

This classic mystery features a family feud, feline intervention, and the spirited septuagenarian s… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Doctors are Doubtful: An Inspector Treadgold Mystery (Merlin Classic Crime) by Anthony Weymouth

20. The Doctors are Doubtful: An Inspector Treadgold Mystery (Merlin Classic Crime)

By: Anthony Weymouth

4.22

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Ingenious’ THE TIMES‘Original and interesting’ DOROTHY L. SAYERS in the SUNDAY TIMES‘A well-writte… read more

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Cover of Dead Man Inside (The Walter Ghost Mysteries) by Vincent Starrett

21. Dead Man Inside (The Walter Ghost Mysteries)

By: Vincent Starrett

3.65

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A strange sight greets Chicago haberdashery clerk Rufus Ker as he prepares to begin his workday by … read more

Similar categories in Vincent Starrett's Dead Man Inside (The Walter Ghost Mysteries) book and Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Great Mistake

  • mystery
  • classics

13 best-selling fiction books like The Great Mistake by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Transform Your Habits

The Case Is Closed (Miss Silver, #2)

Patricia Wentworth

3.86

Transform Your Habits

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

S.S. Van Dine

3.46

Transform Your Habits

The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

Ngaio Marsh

3.83

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11 must-read classics books like Dead Man Inside (The Walter Ghost Mysteries) by Vincent Starrett

Transform Your Habits

The Canary Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #2)

S.S. Van Dine , Willard Huntington Wright

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Heads You Lose (Inspector Cockrill #1)

Christianna Brand

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Waltz into Darkness

Cornell Woolrich , William Irish

3.95

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