13 must-read crime books like The Metropolitan Opera Murders by Helen Traubel

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The Metropolitan Opera Murders

By: Helen Traubel

3.52

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

It happened right in front of the soprano's eyes...the man in the prompter's box gasped, twisted gr…

If you liked the crime plot in The Metropolitan Opera Murders by Helen Traubel , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Fashion in Shrouds (Albert Campion Mystery, #10) by Margery Allingham

1. The Fashion in Shrouds (Albert Campion Mystery, #10)

By: Margery Allingham

3.93

Format: 579 pages, Hardcover

Detective Albert Campion has a talented dress designer sister with celebrated clients. Georgia Well… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's The Fashion in Shrouds (Albert Campion Mystery, #10) book and Helen Traubel's The Metropolitan Opera Murders

  • detective
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world."

-Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds (Albert Campion Mystery, #10)

"Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which ar…"

-Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds (Albert Campion Mystery, #10)

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

2. 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

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12) book and Helen Traubel's The Metropolitan Opera Murders

  • detective
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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3. A Guilty Thing Surprised (Inspector Wexford, #5)

By: Ruth Rendell

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense fore… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction

4. False Scent (Roderick Alleyn, #21)

By: Ngaio Marsh

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In a poisonous cloud of spray, the curtain falls on a drama queen. Little did beloved British actre… read more

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5. Last Seen Wearing

By: Hillary Waugh

4.67

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Eighteen-year old Lowell Mitchell leaves her Friday morning history class and goes back to her room… read more

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6. Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #16)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Everyone blamed Emily's accident on the stairs on her dog, but she was convinced someone was trying… read more

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7. The Under Dog and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Poirot investigates 9 cases for an heiress, playboy, prince, recluse, and more. The Under Dog The P… read more

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8. Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

The party's over when murder makes an entrance...With the notion of bringing together the most bitt… read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"With corpses stiffening on the premises, sir, all things be possible to a man with a desperate powerful idea egging him on."

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"They were fortified with all the resilience that youth presents to an emotional shock. In the midst of murder and attempted suicide, they had managed, not only to behave with address and good sense, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"For some reason that he had never been able to understand, Mandrake was a man in whom his fellow-creatures confided. He was by no means obviously sympathetic and he seldom asked for confidences but, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"Beneath it hung a faded photograph in an Oxford frame. It presented a Victorian gentleman wearing an ineffable air of hauteur and a costume which suggested that he had begun to dress up as Mr. Sherlo…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

9. 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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10. Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)

By: Marcia Muller

3.57

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

In this twisting mystery in a New York Times bestselling series, pranks escalate into a deadly sche… read more

Similar categories in Marcia Muller's Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery) book and Helen Traubel's The Metropolitan Opera Murders

  • mystery
  • fiction
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11. The Wintringham Mystery

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the fo… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
"For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity."

-Anthony Berkeley, The Wintringham Mystery

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12. The Mysterious Mr. Badman

By: W.F. Harvey

3.57

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

The note read: “Will the gentleman who took by mistake a copy of Bunyan’s Life and Death of Mr. Ba… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Crossed Skis (Julian Rivers #8) by Carol Carnac

13. Crossed Skis (Julian Rivers #8)

By: Carol Carnac

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An atmospheric holiday novel from one of the most consistently popular authors in the series, Carol… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1) by Nev March

14. Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

By: Nev March

3.76

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona militar… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Secrets are like serpents, Jim. They grow in the dark. [Diana Framji, to Jim Agnihotri]"

-Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

"Most things, I find, are temporary and pass into distant memory with the next great event. But this commentary drew blood to my face."

-Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

"Joy was made of moments like this, each insignificant in itself, piled together into a monolith, immutable and strong, something to lean against when one's world went awry. [Jim Agnihotri]"

-Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

"Whatever I had expected, it was not this. Astonishment gave way to bitterness. I was a mixed breed, a bastard, not worthy of his daughter. Had I not seen that mix of pity and disapproval all my life?…"

-Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

Cover of Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles by Martin Edwards

15. Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles

By: Martin Edwards

3.91

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

‘If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Crook o' Lune by E.C.R. Lorac

16. Crook o' Lune

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.15

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding lands … read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Two-Way Murder by E.C.R. Lorac

17. Two-Way Murder

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

'This is only a hill mist, not a real fog. You'll find it'll be perfectly clear when we run down in… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O'Donnell

18. The House on Vesper Sands

By: Paraic O'Donnell

3.41

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So b… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Metropolitan Opera Murders by Helen Traubel

19. The Metropolitan Opera Murders

By: Helen Traubel

3.52

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

It happened right in front of the soprano's eyes...the man in the prompter's box gasped, twisted gr… read more

Similar categories in Helen Traubel's The Metropolitan Opera Murders book and Helen Traubel's The Metropolitan Opera Murders

  • detective
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of A gentle murderer (Gregg Press mystery fiction series) by Dorothy Salisbury Davis

20. A gentle murderer (Gregg Press mystery fiction series)

By: Dorothy Salisbury Davis

3.63

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

A frightening confession leads a priest to hunt down a murderer in Grand Master of crime fiction Do… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Exit Sir John: An Anthony Bathurst Mystery (The Anthony Bathurst Mysteries Book 34) by Brian Flynn

21. Exit Sir John: An Anthony Bathurst Mystery (The Anthony Bathurst Mysteries Book 34)

By: Brian Flynn

4.08

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Elisabeth slept! It is perhaps a matter for wonderment that her sleep was untroubled. For-had she b… read more

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  • mystery

15 Best fiction books like The Metropolitan Opera Murders by Helen Traubel

Transform Your Habits

The Fashion in Shrouds (Albert Campion Mystery, #10)

Margery Allingham

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

Margery Allingham

3.99

Transform Your Habits

A Guilty Thing Surprised (Inspector Wexford, #5)

Ruth Rendell

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

Ngaio Marsh

3.96

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20 Top fiction books like Two-Way Murder by E.C.R. Lorac

Transform Your Habits

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

John Dickson Carr

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Green for Danger

Christianna Brand

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Roger Sheringham Cases, #5)

Anthony Berkeley

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Sussex Downs Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #2)

Martin Edwards , John Bude

4.72

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