13 best-selling historical books like The Secret Detectives by Ella Risbridger

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The Secret Detectives

By: Ella Risbridger

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When Isobel Petty is orphaned, she finds herself being taken away from her home in India and sent t…

If you liked the historical plot in The Secret Detectives by Ella Risbridger , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow (The Sinclair’s Mysteries #1)

By: Katherine Woodfine

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

You are cordially invited to attend the Grand Opening of Sinclair’s department store! Enter a wo… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Woodfine's The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow (The Sinclair’s Mysteries #1) book and Ella Risbridger's The Secret Detectives

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of Jolly Foul Play (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #4) by Robin Stevens

2. Jolly Foul Play (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #4)

By: Robin Stevens

4.12

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

The fantastic new mystery from the author of Murder Most Unladylike. Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong hav… read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's Jolly Foul Play (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #4) book and Ella Risbridger's The Secret Detectives

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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3. Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #1)

By: Robin Stevens

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Deepdean School for Girls, 1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secre… read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #1) book and Ella Risbridger's The Secret Detectives

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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4. The Van Gogh Deception

By: Deron R. Hicks

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a young boy is discovered in Washington DC's National Gallery without any recollection of who … read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery

5. Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #5)

By: Robin Stevens

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the Christmas hols in snowy Cambridge. Hazel has high hopes… read more

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6. Black Cats and Butlers (Rose Raventhorpe Investigates, #1)

By: Janine Beacham

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Clockwork Sparrow meets Downton Abbey Rose Raventhorpe loves nothing more than wandering around… read more

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7. Arsenic for Tea (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #2)

By: Robin Stevens

3.97

Format: 649 pages, Paperback

Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home, Fallingford, for the holidays… read more

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8. Letters from the Lighthouse

By: Emma Carroll

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren't even meant to be outside, no… read more

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9. First Class Murder: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery

By: Robin Stevens

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are taking a holiday through Europe on the world-famous Orient Express. … read more

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10. Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

By: Peter Bunzl

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Paperback

Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat. . . . Lily's life is in mortal peril. Her father is m… read more

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11. Cream Buns and Crime

By: Robin Stevens

3.37

Format: 204 pages,

A collection of short stories, tips and tricks on being a detective, from the author of Murder Most… read more

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12. Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7)

By: Robin Stevens

4.48

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

'The whole theatre seemed on edge. There was a feverish atmosphere seeping into every corner of the… read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7) book and Ella Risbridger's The Secret Detectives

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
"My good sir,' he said, 'do you know to whom you are speaking? I am the Prince of Bengal and these are my friends, the Princess of Kowloon and the Duke of Massachusettes. We are waiting for my father,…"

-Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7)

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13. Peril in Paris (Taylor & Rose Secret Agents, #1)

By: Katherine Woodfine

4.16

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

ALL ABOARD THE TRAIN TO PARIS! It’s 1911, and the young detectives of TAYLOR & ROSE are turning… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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14. Death Sets Sail (Murder Most Unladylike #9)

By: Robin Stevens

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The final novel in the number-one bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series. Dais… read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's Death Sets Sail (Murder Most Unladylike #9) book and Ella Risbridger's The Secret Detectives

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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15. A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6)

By: Robin Stevens

4.40

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

The sixth mystery from the bestselling, award-winning author of Murder Most Unladylike. When Haz… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8) by Robin Stevens

16. Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8)

By: Robin Stevens

4.35

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Daisy and Hazel are finally back at Deepdean, and the school is preparing for a most exciting event… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of The Highland Falcon Thief (Adventures on Trains, #1) by M.G. Leonard

17. The Highland Falcon Thief (Adventures on Trains, #1)

By: M.G. Leonard

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In The Highland Falcon Thief: Adventures on Trains #1, a middle-grade series starter from MG Leonar… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
"It's hard to have an adventure with a smart phone in your pocket. It stops you from reading real maps and talking to people."

-M.G. Leonard, The Highland Falcon Thief (Adventures on Trains, #1)

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18. The Ministry of Unladylike Activity

By: Robin Stevens

4.21

Format: None pages, ebook

Britain is at war and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Acti… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of Fireborn (Fireborn #1) by Aisling Fowler

19. Fireborn (Fireborn #1)

By: Aisling Fowler

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Lyra. Lucy. Percy. Once in a generation, a hero emerges whose story enthralls readers worldwide. … read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
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20. The Good Thieves

By: Katherine Rundell

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“A dazzling tale of wild hope, lingering grief, admirable self-sufficiency, and intergenerational a… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
"It is difficult to sleep when you are besieged by hope."

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

"He was not tall or broad, but when he grinned it was so vivid that he appeared to take up most of the street and at least half the sky."

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

"To throw the knife would be death...She wanted nothing to do with death--nothing to do with finality, with endings, with the dark of it. She hated the man more than she hated any living thing, but he…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

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21. Skandar and the Chaos Trials (Skandar, #3)

By: A.F. Steadman

4.55

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

The Island always wins… Skandar and his sister Kenna are finally both at the Eyrie, but tensions… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
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22. The Very Merry Murder Club

By: Serena Patel

3.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A wintery middle grade mystery collection of short stories by thirteen of the most exciting and div… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • mystery
Cover of The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz by Robin Stevens

23. The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz

By: Robin Stevens

4.38

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

The second thrilling and unputdownable mystery starring a new generation of the Detective Society, … read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of A Pinch of Magic (A Pinch of Magic, #1) by Michelle Harrison

24. A Pinch of Magic (A Pinch of Magic, #1)

By: Michelle Harrison

4.07

Format: 368 pages, ebook

A spellbinding middle grade fantasy about three sisters--adventurous Betty, curious Charlie, and pr… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of The Bewitching of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #2) by Phil Hickes

25. The Bewitching of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #2)

By: Phil Hickes

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones! Aveline is thrilled when she discovers that the hol… read more

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  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Case of the Missing Treasure (Murder Most Unladylike, #6.5) by Robin Stevens

26. The Case of the Missing Treasure (Murder Most Unladylike, #6.5)

By: Robin Stevens

4.05

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

A mini-mystery from the world of Murder Most Unladylike, starring detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel … read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's The Case of the Missing Treasure (Murder Most Unladylike, #6.5) book and Ella Risbridger's The Secret Detectives

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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27. Harklights

By: Tim Tilley

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Wick has always lived in the dark and dreadful Harklights Match Factory and Orphanage, working tire… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Letter with the Golden Stamp by Onjali Q. Raúf

28. The Letter with the Golden Stamp

By: Onjali Q. Raúf

4.52

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

'I can't remember how old I was when I first started collecting stamps. But I've got a whole shoebo… read more

Similar categories in Onjali Q. Raúf's The Letter with the Golden Stamp book and Ella Risbridger's The Secret Detectives

  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of The Miracle on Ebenezer Street by Catherine Doyle

29. The Miracle on Ebenezer Street

By: Catherine Doyle

4.13

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

When George stumbles across Marley's Curiosity Shop at the Christmas fair he finds a mysterious sno… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
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30. The Secret Detectives

By: Ella Risbridger

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When Isobel Petty is orphaned, she finds herself being taken away from her home in India and sent t… read more

Similar categories in Ella Risbridger's The Secret Detectives book and Ella Risbridger's The Secret Detectives

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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31. Legendarium (Wonderscape, #2)

By: Jennifer Bell

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Returning to the world and characters of Wonderscape, this is an explosive gaming adventure through… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction

22 best-selling fiction books like The Secret Detectives by Ella Risbridger

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The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow (The Sinclair’s Mysteries #1)

Katherine Woodfine

3.99

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Jolly Foul Play (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #4)

Robin Stevens

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #1)

Robin Stevens

4.21

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The Van Gogh Deception

Deron R. Hicks

3.80

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The Final Year

Matt Goodfellow

4.71

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Safiyyah's War

Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

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The Clockwork Conspiracy (Isaac Turner Investigates)

Sam Sedgman

4.30

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Katherine Rundell

4.11

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