20 Top mystery books like The Valley of Ghosts by Edgar Wallace

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The Valley of Ghosts

By: Edgar Wallace

3.34

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Fate and an easy-running Spanz brought Andrew Macleod to the environs of Beverley. The town itself …

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1. The Woman in White

By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet

4.01

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more

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  • mystery
"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

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2. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

Similar categories in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • novels
  • fiction
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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3. The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

It's London, 1907. Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because he is too prosa… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1) book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • novels
  • fiction
"better to be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother"

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

"I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

"Há momentos, meu jovem, que cada um de nós deve se posicionar em prol da justiça e dos direitos humanos, ou você nunca mais se sentirá limpo outra vez."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

"The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

Cover of The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) by Arthur Conan Doyle, Anne Perry, Sidney Paget, Maria Buitoni Duca

4. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Anne Perry , Sidney Paget , Maria Buitoni Duca

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this, one of the most famous of Doyle's mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage gho… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?"

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

"Watson: "You may be right." Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

Cover of Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse, #1) by Colin Dexter

5. Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse, #1)

By: Colin Dexter

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Beautiful Sylvia Kaye and another young woman had been seen hitching a ride not long before Sylvia'… read more

Similar categories in Colin Dexter's Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse, #1) book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. AchtNacht

By: Sebastian Fitzek

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

Es ist der 8. 8., acht Uhr acht. Sie haben 80 Millionen Feinde. Werden Sie die AchtNacht uberleben?… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Fitzek's AchtNacht book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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7. Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely, #1)

By: Melissa Marr

2.90

Format: 96 pages,

Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries. Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous,… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely, #1) book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • fiction
Cover of Hickory Dickory Dock (Hercule Poirot, #30) by Agatha Christie, Hugh Fraser

8. Hickory Dickory Dock (Hercule Poirot, #30)

By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Audio CD

An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Herc… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's Hickory Dickory Dock (Hercule Poirot, #30) book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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9. The Red Thumb Mark

By: R. Austin Freeman

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the … read more

Similar categories in R. Austin Freeman's The Red Thumb Mark book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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10. The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond, #10)

By: Ian Fleming

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

'He was about six feet tall, slim and fit. The eyes in the lean , slightly tanned face were a very … read more

Similar categories in Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond, #10) book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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11. The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wickedness...such wickedness...." The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes.… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5) book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"After all, the stupidest child can set a house on fire quite easily."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

"Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

"People are so proud of wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it? That's where Christian humility comes in, I suppose. They don't even know they are good."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something LESS than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

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12. Les oubliés du dimanche

By: Valérie Perrin

4.07

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

Justine, vingt et un ans, aime les personnes agees comme d'autres les contes. Helene, presque cinq … read more

Similar categories in Valérie Perrin's Les oubliés du dimanche book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • fiction
Cover of After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #29) by Agatha Christie

13. After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #29)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister in this classic from … read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #29) book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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14. Devil's Day

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the Lancashire farm where he grew up to help gather the she… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Michael Hurley's Devil's Day book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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15. The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

By: Agatha Christie

3.80

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic d… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2) book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it."

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

"You've brought out your best butter." [you're laying on the flattery thickly]"

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

"What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it."

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

16. A Place Called Freedom

By: Ken Follett

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, tw… read more

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17. Lessico famigliare

By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more

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18. A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley, #1)

By: Elizabeth George

4.04

Format: 413 pages, Mass Market Paperback

To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hu… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth George's A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley, #1) book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

19. Le jardin arc-en-ciel

By: Ito Ogawa

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

Izumi, jeune mere celibataire, rencontre Chiyoko, lyceenne en classe de terminale, au moment ou cel… read more

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20. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently #1)

By: Douglas Adams

3.69

Format: 47 pages, Mass Market Paperback

What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum m… read more

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21. Elric of Melniboné (Elric, #1)

By: Michael Moorcock

3.90

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders i… read more

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22. Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #28)

By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser

2.83

Format: 212 pages, Audio CD

Mrs. McGinty is dead and everyone suspects James Bentley, her slightly shifty lodger, but Superinte… read more

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23. Mrs. March

By: Virginia Feito

3.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mrs. March? A twenty-first-century Highsmith, Virginia Feito conjures the unforgettable M… read more

Similar categories in Virginia Feito's Mrs. March book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Although, really, what was wrong with lamps?"

-Virginia Feito, Mrs. March

"After all, how many coincidences can one women overlook?"

-Virginia Feito, Mrs. March

"La culpa era cosa de valientes. La negación era para el resto."

-Virginia Feito, Mrs. March

"La culpa era cosa d evalientes. La negación era para el resto."

-Virginia Feito, Mrs. March

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24. Trois

By: Valérie Perrin

4.29

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

« Je m'appelle Virginie. Aujourd'hui, de Nina, Adrien et Etienne, seul Adrien me parle encore. Nin… read more

Similar categories in Valérie Perrin's Trois book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"W życiu są ci, którzy zostają, i ci, którzy odjeżdżają, myśli Nina. I ci, którzy porzucają."

-Valérie Perrin, Trois

"Nina a appris qu'on ne construit rien avec quelqu'un, ni pour quelqu'un. Qu'une existence se fonde seul et que si par miracle on rencontre une âme un peu sœur, c'est cadeau."

-Valérie Perrin, Trois

"Imagine you’ve been unable to move for years because your fist is clenched inside a container, and to manage to pull your hand out, to free yourself, you just need to let go of what you’re clutching …"

-Valérie Perrin, Trois

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25. Il rosmarino non capisce l'inverno

By: Matteo Bussola

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

«A cosa pensa una donna quando, assordata dalle voci di tutti, capisce all’improvviso di aver soffo… read more

Similar categories in Matteo Bussola's Il rosmarino non capisce l'inverno book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • novels
  • fiction
"Pensò che era tutto ridicolo e sbagliato e inopportuno. Che aveva scelto Tommaso solo come alibi e adesso invece lui era sduto di fronte a lei. Gli sembrò che lui ci tenesse davvero, che il suo esser…"

-Matteo Bussola, Il rosmarino non capisce l'inverno

"Se non sopravvivi a una malattia non significa che non sei stato abbastanza guerriero. Chi ce la fa, a volte, ha avuto solo più fortuna. E bisognerebbe lasciare il sacrosanto diritto, a un malato, di…"

-Matteo Bussola, Il rosmarino non capisce l'inverno

"Le dico che non so se siano discorsi che convincono la gente a scendere dai cornicioni, ma che io alla sua età mi sentivo una merda in un corpo sbagliato e oggi invece mi sento un merda nel corpo giu…"

-Matteo Bussola, Il rosmarino non capisce l'inverno

"Scrivo questa lettera per dire alla donna che ti ha strappato da me, da noi, che non ce l'ho più con lei. Perchè penso che sia già stata puntia abbastanza. E perchè, sì, l'ho odiata, insultata, immag…"

-Matteo Bussola, Il rosmarino non capisce l'inverno

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26. Il Re del gelato

By: Cristina Cassar Scalia

3.60

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Un’indagine che precede Sabbia nera. «Prima di Sabbia nera Vanina era a Catania già da un anno… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Cassar Scalia's Il Re del gelato book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1) by Ragnar Jónasson

27. The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.53

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkn… read more

Similar categories in Ragnar Jónasson's The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1) book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"It was as if her life had been brought to a full stop: she couldn't look forward, couldn't picture what tomorrow night bring."

-Ragnar Jónasson, The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

Cover of Mrs Mohr Goes Missing by Maryla Szymiczkowa

28. Mrs Mohr Goes Missing

By: Maryla Szymiczkowa

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Cracow, 1893. Thirty-eight-year-old Zofia Turbotyńska has assured her husband's rise through the ra… read more

Similar categories in Maryla Szymiczkowa's Mrs Mohr Goes Missing book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Ignacy! - zapłonęła świętym oburzeniem, jak zawsze, kiedy powiedziano jej prawdę prosto w oczy."

-Maryla Szymiczkowa, Mrs Mohr Goes Missing

"Ignacy bywał trudny, to prawda, ale pomysł, że można zamordować męża, wydawał jej się... w złym guście."

-Maryla Szymiczkowa, Mrs Mohr Goes Missing

"Zdrowo - zmarszczył czoło Iwaniec - żaden zmarły nie wygląda zdrowo. Ustanie życia jest objawem zdecydowanego braku zdrowia. Definitywnego, rzekłbym."

-Maryla Szymiczkowa, Mrs Mohr Goes Missing

"Ale ten entuzjazm nie przystoi profesorowi, Ignacy - ofuknęła męża. - W takiej chwili twoją rolą jest zachować się dostojnie, a nie ekscytować głupstwami."

-Maryla Szymiczkowa, Mrs Mohr Goes Missing

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29. Woman on the Edge

By: Samantha M. Bailey

3.80

Format: 271 pages, ebook

A moment on the subway platform changes two women’s lives forever—a debut thriller that will take y… read more

Similar categories in Samantha M. Bailey's Woman on the Edge book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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30. Julie

By: Ida Amlesù

3.58

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Francia, 1686. Sulle scale di rue de la Grosse Margot, nei quartieri popolari di Parigi, vengono ri… read more

Similar categories in Ida Amlesù's Julie book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • fiction
Cover of The Valley of Ghosts by Edgar Wallace

31. The Valley of Ghosts

By: Edgar Wallace

3.34

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Fate and an easy-running Spanz brought Andrew Macleod to the environs of Beverley. The town itself … read more

Similar categories in Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts book and Edgar Wallace's The Valley of Ghosts

  • detective
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

23 must-read fiction books like The Valley of Ghosts by Edgar Wallace

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Horace Walpole

3.18

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Arthur Conan Doyle

3.93

Transform Your Habits

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Arthur Conan Doyle , Anne Perry , Sidney Paget , Maria Buitoni Duca

4.13

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Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse, #1)

Colin Dexter

3.98

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Chi dice e chi tace

Chiara Valerio

3.77

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Come d'aria

Ada D'Adamo

4.05

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Grande meraviglia

Viola Ardone

4.18

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Donatella Di Pietrantonio

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