10 Top crime books like Four Days' Wonder by A.A. Milne

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Similar categories in Agatha Christie's Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5) book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• mystery
• crime
• fiction
• british literature

"Slike ting blir sendt oss for å prøve oss. I hvert fall tror jeg det. Jeg skjønner ikke hvorfor de ellers blir sendt oss."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

"I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

"Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

"It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

Similar categories in Christianna Brand's Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4) book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• mystery
• crime
• fiction
• british literature

"But now the streets were not like the streets she knew. They were so silent: and so empty. On the doorsteps, little groups of milk bottles huddled with their dirty white collars, waiting for the roun…"

-Christianna Brand, Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1) book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• mystery
• crime
• fiction
• british literature

"It's dangerous to know too much."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Shades of Pelmanism!’ said Tommy, and relapsed into silence."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

Similar categories in Carter Dickson's The Plague Court Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #1) book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• mystery
• crime
• fiction
• british literature

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's Murder by Matchlight (Robert MacDonald, #25) book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

Similar categories in Anthony Trollope's The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• fiction
• british literature

"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

Similar categories in James Norbury's The Journey (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #2) book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• fiction

Similar categories in Connie Willis's The Road to Roswell book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• humor
• fiction

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's Death of an Author book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• mystery
• crime
• fiction
• british literature

Similar categories in Ben Aaronovitch's Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9) book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• mystery
• crime
• fiction

"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

Similar categories in James Norbury's Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1) book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• fiction

"Time doing nothing is never wasted."

-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)

"Incluso un árbol herido puede florecer de la forma más bella."

-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)

"Intenta sacar tiempo para las pequeñas cosas, a menudo son lo más importante."

-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)

"A cherry tree doesn't compare itself to other trees,' said Big Panda, 'it just blossoms."

-James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)

Similar categories in Jennifer Croft's The Extinction of Irena Rey book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• mystery
• fiction

"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's The Fraud book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• mystery
• fiction
• british literature

"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

Similar categories in Elizabeth Peters's Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1) book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• mystery
• fiction

"God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody,"

-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

"...Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not made a sarcastic remark for fully ten minutes."

-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

"I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had be…"

-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

"I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to me…"

-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3) book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• mystery
• crime
• fiction
• british literature

"Harbinder paces her office. She still can’t stop herself thinking, Look at me with an office big enough to pace in ."

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"How many times can you reminisce about school? She doesn’t think Talgarth High has ever tried to gather its former students. To be fair, it would be hard with so many of them electronically tagged."

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"Aren’t you a Christian though?’ She remembers a comment about St Peter’s Italian church. ‘Not really,’ says Kim. ‘I just pick the bits I like from every religion. Is there a word for that?’ ‘Heretic,…"

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"Gary’s made a bit of a name for himself. He’s always in the papers going on about climate change being a hoax. That’s why I was surprised ….’ ‘Surprised by what,’ prompts Harbinder because the singer…"

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3) book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• mystery
• crime
• fiction
• british literature

Similar categories in Dianne Freeman's A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder (Countess of Harleigh Mystery, #1) book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• mystery
• fiction

Similar categories in Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• mystery
• fiction
• british literature

"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25) book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• mystery
• crime
• fiction
• british literature

"Mind the cat."

-E.C.R. Lorac, Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)

Similar categories in A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder book and A.A. Milne's Four Days' Wonder

• british literature
• humor
• fiction
• mystery
• crime