10 Best fiction books like The D'Arblay Mystery by R. Austin Freeman

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The D'Arblay Mystery

By: R. Austin Freeman

3.72

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

When a man is found floating beneath the skin of a green-skimmed pond one morning, Dr Thorndyke bec…

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1. 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
  • crime
  • fiction
"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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2. The Cask

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Paris. Shipping business, police techniques, investigative procedures, feature in this alibi puzzle… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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3. The Red House Mystery

By: A.A. Milne

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyor… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. The Mystery of the Yellow Room

By: Gaston Leroux

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The young lady had just retired to her room when sounds of a struggle ensue, and cries of "Murder!"… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. The Red Box (Nero Wolfe, #4)

By: Rex Stout

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A lovely woman is dead, and the fortunes of overextended theatrical producer Llewellyn Frost depend… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

6. The Sea Mystery

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

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7. The Crooked Hinge (Dr. Gideon Fell, #8)

By: John Dickson Carr

4.01

Format: 217 pages,

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8. The Black Angel

By: Cornell Woolrich

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Woolrich devised and used instruments of psychological torture-his stories.-TIME Nothing beats a ta… read more

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9. The Middle Temple Murder

By: J.S. Fletcher

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

All this led up to the appearance of Mr. Aylmore, M.P., in the witness-box. And Spargo knew and fel… read more

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10. A Strange Disappearance

By: Anna Katharine Green

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Anna Green was an early 20th century novelist. She was one of the first authors to write detective … read more

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11. The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

When a disfigured corpse is discovered in a country parish, the local rector pleads with Lord Peter… read more

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12. The Face In The Night

By: Edgar Wallace

2.82

Format: 3 pages, Paperback

The green face hangs in the Room of Horror and around it grows a living, baffling legend of mystery… read more

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13. The House Without a Key (Charlie Chan, #1)

By: Earl Derr Biggers

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is the classic novel in which Charlie Chan makes his debut as Inspector of the Honolulu Police… read more

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14. The House of the Whispering Pines

By: Anna Katharine Green

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more

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15. Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Gaudy Nightstands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class b… read more

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16. The Emperor's Snuff-Box

By: John Dickson Carr

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Beside the dead body of Sir Maurice Lawes are the shattered fragments of a snuff-box that once belo… read more

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17. The Cornish Coast Murder

By: John Bude

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature --himself in … read more

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18. Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.24

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Society’s eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally suc… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy L. Sayers's Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13) book and R. Austin Freeman's The D'Arblay Mystery

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

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19. The Case of the Michaelmas Goose

By: Clifford Witting

4.25

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective-Sergeant Martin christened him 'Whiskers', but nobody could be certain who he really was.… read more

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20. Death of an Author

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.99

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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21. La libreria dei gatti neri

By: Piergiorgio Pulixi

3.90

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Grande appassionato di gialli, Marzio Montecristo ha aperto da qualche anno nel centro di Cagliari … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Case with Three Threads: An English Country House Murder Mystery by Anthony Lang

22. The Case with Three Threads: An English Country House Murder Mystery

By: Anthony Lang

3.84

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Effortless telling of a good story’ The Observer‘Murder most ingeniously contrived’ New York Times… read more

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23. Tragedy at the Unicorn

By: John Rhode

4.26

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The best detective story of 1928’ Times Literary Supplement'A case of suicide, accident or murder?… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Dinner Party at Bardolph's: A Golden Age Murder Mystery (Merlin Classic Crime) by R.A. J. Walling

24. The Dinner Party at Bardolph's: A Golden Age Murder Mystery (Merlin Classic Crime)

By: R.A. J. Walling

4.25

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Edward Bardolph is an incredibly successful financier - he is also despised by many - with good rea… read more

Similar categories in R.A. J. Walling's The Dinner Party at Bardolph's: A Golden Age Murder Mystery (Merlin Classic Crime) book and R. Austin Freeman's The D'Arblay Mystery

  • mystery
Cover of The Terriford Mystery by Marie Belloc Lowndes

25. The Terriford Mystery

By: Marie Belloc Lowndes

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Mrs. Belloc Lowndes knows better than most writers how to maintain the interest in a mystery story.… read more

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26. The Crime

By: Anthony Lang

4.14

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A brilliantly-written detective story’ The Daily Mail‘A detective story of the first order’ Cassel… read more

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27. The Cartwright Gardens Murder

By: J.S. Fletcher

3.73

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

The Cartwright Gardens Murder is another one of those stories of crime which made Mr. Fletcher one … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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28. The D'Arblay Mystery

By: R. Austin Freeman

3.72

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

When a man is found floating beneath the skin of a green-skimmed pond one morning, Dr Thorndyke bec… read more

Similar categories in R. Austin Freeman's The D'Arblay Mystery book and R. Austin Freeman's The D'Arblay Mystery

  • mystery
  • 19th century
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Borgia Cabinet by J.S. Fletcher

29. The Borgia Cabinet

By: J.S. Fletcher

3.80

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

Joseph Smith Fletcher was a British journalist, writer, and fellow of the Royal Historical Society.… read more

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30. The Snarl of the Beast (Race Williams #1)

By: Carroll John Daly

3.69

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

"The Snarl of the Beast" was originally serialized over several issues of the "Black Mask" magazine… read more

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  • mystery
"The tin pan notes of a piano drift faintly into the night. A man curses and a window slams. Far distant an ash can clatters on stone and the almost human screech of a cat pierces the night."

-Carroll John Daly, The Snarl of the Beast (Race Williams #1)

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31. Shot on the Downs

By: Victor L. Whitechurch

4.02

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

‘All Whitechurch’s stories have distinct merit’ Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime‘Whitechurch’s… read more

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  • mystery

14 best-selling mystery books like The D'Arblay Mystery by R. Austin Freeman

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The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

Ngaio Marsh

3.71

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The Cask

Freeman Wills Crofts

3.71

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The Red House Mystery

A.A. Milne

4.17

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The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux

3.64

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9 Top mystery books like The Cartwright Gardens Murder by J.S. Fletcher

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The Strong Room: A Golden Age Mystery

R.A.J. Walling

4.05

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The Wintringham Mystery

Anthony Berkeley

3.66

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Death of Mr. Dodsley (Francis McNab, #5)

John Ferguson

3.45

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The House of Disappearance

J. Jefferson Farjeon

3.87

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