26 best-selling mystery books like Prisoner's Base (Nero Wolfe, #21) by Rex Stout, William L. DeAndrea

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Prisoner's Base (Nero Wolfe, #21)

By: Rex Stout , William L. DeAndrea

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hours after Priscilla Eads pleads with him to take her case, Nero Wolfe is shocked to find out that…

If you liked the mystery plot in Prisoner's Base (Nero Wolfe, #21) by Rex Stout, William L. DeAndrea , here is a list of 26 books like this:

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1. The Drowning Pool

By: Ross Macdonald

3.58

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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2. The Last Coincidence

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Playboy Sparky Linville has a nasty notion of fun and games. But when he picks popular Noreen James… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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3. Death on Deadline

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.97

Format: 352 pages,

The chief shareholder in the New York Gazette was appalled when family divisons made it seem inevit… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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4. The Bloodied Ivy

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin go back to college to investigate a campus death in this first paperb… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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5. Murder in E Minor

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a maestro is murdered, Archie is flabbergasted when the gargantuan gourmet detective lifts him… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. 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
  • detective
  • classics
  • 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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7. Prisoner's Base (Nero Wolfe, #21)

By: Rex Stout , William L. DeAndrea

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hours after Priscilla Eads pleads with him to take her case, Nero Wolfe is shocked to find out that… read more

Similar categories in Rex Stout's Prisoner's Base (Nero Wolfe, #21) book and Rex Stout's Prisoner's Base (Nero Wolfe, #21)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The King is Dead (Ellery Queen Detective, #23) by Ellery Queen

8. The King is Dead (Ellery Queen Detective, #23)

By: Ellery Queen

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Armed men invade the Queen apartment, led by Abel Bendigo, brother of one of the world's most power… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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9. Murder in the Ball Park (Nero Wolfe Novels by Robert Goldsborough #9)

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Wolfe earns a big league call-up after a senator gets taken out at the ball game Archie Goodwin and… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
Cover of Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8) by Ngaio Marsh

10. Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

It was planned as an act of a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"It's like one of those affairs in books," said Bailey disgustedly."Someone trying to think up a new way to do a murder. Silly, I call it." "What do you say, Roper?" said Alleyn. "To my way of thinkin…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

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11. The Case of the Careless Kitten

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

DOUBLY DISAPPEARED Ten years ago, town banker Franklin Shore left all his money behind, disappeared… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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12. Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of th… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Look here,' said Nigel suddenly, 'let's pretend it's a detective novel. Where would we be by this time? About halfway through, I should think. Well, who's your pick' 'I am invariably gulled by detect…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)

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13. Silver Spire

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

For the sixth time Robert Goldsborough invites us into Nero Wolfe's West Thirty-fifth Street browns… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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14. The Moving Target

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshi… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

15. Clutch of Constables (Roderick Alleyn, #25)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Five Days Out of Time ... that was how the ad had described the Zodiaccruise on the "weirdly misted… read more

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16. Archie Meets Nero Wolfe: A Prequel to Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.76

Format: 180 pages,

To become part of the Nero Wolfe legend, Archie Goodwin must prove his worth Archie Goodwin comes t… read more

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17. The Case of the Baited Hook

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.87

Format: 309 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Who was that masked woman? That's the question plaguing the perpetually inquiring mind of Perry Mas… read more

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18. Hangman's Holiday: A Collection of Short Mysteries (Lord Peter Wimsey, #9)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Amusing and absolutely appalling things happen on the way to the gallows when murder meets Lord Pet… read more

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19. Murder, Stage Left

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.62

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

It's curtains for a famous Broadway director, and private investigator Nero Wolfe is on the case--b… read more

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20. 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

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11) book and Rex Stout's Prisoner's Base (Nero Wolfe, #21)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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)

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21. One for the Books (Library Lover's Mystery, #11)

By: Jenn McKinlay

4.08

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Wedding bells are ringing in the latest page-turning Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Jenn McKinlay's One for the Books (Library Lover's Mystery, #11) book and Rex Stout's Prisoner's Base (Nero Wolfe, #21)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. Fatal First Edition (Library Lover's Mystery, #14)

By: Jenn McKinlay

4.06

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

People are dying to get their hands on a rare, valuable book in the newest Library Lover’s Mystery … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. The Missing Heiress (Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries #17)

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.05

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

The daughter of a steel magnate disappears, and Nero and Archie must forge ahead with an investigat… read more

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  • mystery
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24. Trouble at the Brownstone (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #16)

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.13

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Archie Goodwin goes undercover on the waterfront in a new mystery by the author who “does a masterl… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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25. The Battered Badge (Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries #13)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.91

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

A shake-up in the NYPD homicide squad following a high-profile murder is bad for business for priva… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. The Missing Chapter (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #7)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.94

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

When a loudmouthed, arrogant author is silenced, the reclusive master detective Nero Wolfe looks fo… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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27. Death of an Art Collector (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #14)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.75

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

An art hoarder’s suspicious death paints a nasty picture for Nero Wolfe. No matter how fabulously h… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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28. Archie in the Crosshairs (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #10)

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.04

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

When Archie Goodwin’s life is threatened, Wolfe must find the gunman or lose his right-hand man … read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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29. Fade to Black (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #5)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.85

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

For the men of Madison Avenue, the battle between soft-drink giants Cherr-o-key and AmeriCherry see… read more

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  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Archie Goes Home (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #15) by Robert Goldsborough

30. Archie Goes Home (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #15)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.94

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

Archie Goodwin leaves Manhattan for the Midwest to find out who put a bullet into a banker. Archie … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Stop the Presses! (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #11) by Robert Goldsborough

31. Stop the Presses! (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #11)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.82

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are tasked with protecting the most hated columnist in New York City … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction

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Ross Macdonald

3.58

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Robert Goldsborough

3.97

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Death on Deadline

Robert Goldsborough

3.97

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Robert Goldsborough

3.97

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4.19

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Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

Rex Stout , Loren D. Estleman

3.97

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Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36)

Rex Stout , Stephen Greenleaf

4.23

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