11 Best mystery books like The Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance

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The Lone Wolf

By: Louis Joseph Vance

3.70

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

The origin story of the Lone Wolf, master criminal with a conscienceOne rainy winter night, an orph…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

By: Jack Finney

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell d… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"Of course we could have failed; I could have wrecked her life; but that made me no different from any other man who might have done the same thing."

-Jack Finney, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Cover of W is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone, #23) by Sue Grafton

2. W is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone, #23)

By: Sue Grafton

3.95

Format: 486 pages, Hardcover

Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I’d never la… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"nothing wrong with a lie or two when the situation demanded it"

-Sue Grafton, W is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone, #23)

"maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was"

-Sue Grafton, W is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone, #23)

"I wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not."

-Sue Grafton, W is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone, #23)

"i'm happiest when signs are posted--no spitting, no public urination, no walking on the grass. i might not obey but at least i know where i stood."

-Sue Grafton, W is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone, #23)

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3. The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3)

By: Edmund Crispin

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Richard Cadogan's Oxford holiday turns into a mystery solving adventure full of dangerous twists an… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"What are you going to do with your self now?'... 'I? said Fen. 'I shall pursue my orderly and dignified progress towards the grave."

-Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3)

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4. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

By: Arthur Machen

3.69

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

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5. The Club Dumas

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte , Sonia Soto

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Paperback

A provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventu… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of C is for Corpse  (Kinsey Millhone, #3) by Sue Grafton

6. C is for Corpse (Kinsey Millhone, #3)

By: Sue Grafton

3.74

Format: 410 pages,

How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory?… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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7. The Return of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

The Return of Sherlock Holmesis a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of G is for Gumshoe (Kinsey Millhone, #7) by Sue Grafton

8. G is for Gumshoe (Kinsey Millhone, #7)

By: Sue Grafton

3.77

Format: None pages,

"One of the sassiest, most appealing of the recent spate of female gunshoes . . . 'G' is for glorio… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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9. The Lone Wolf

By: Otto Penzler , Louis Joseph Vance

3.75

Format: 132 pages,

Louis Joseph Vance was an early 20th century American novelist. "Michael Lanyard," also known as "T… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
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10. Robots Have No Tails

By: Henry Kuttner

3.57

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Hounded by creditors and heckled by an uncooperative robot, binge-drinking inventor Galloway Galleg… read more

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  • fiction
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11. Fall of the Birds

By: Bradford Morrow

4.50

Format: 87 pages,

A new novella by acclaimed author Bradford Morrow about a man who tracks an inexplicable plague of … read more

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  • fiction
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12. 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 thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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13. News of the World

By: Paulette Jiles

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of the American Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a yo… read more

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  • fiction
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14. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • 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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15. The Wonderful Visit

By: H.G. Wells

3.50

Format: 224 pages,

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  • classics
  • fiction

16. Unexpected Night (Henry Gamadge, #1)

By: Elizabeth Daly

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

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17. H is for Homicide (Kinsey Millhone, #8)

By: Sue Grafton

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

H IS FOR HUSTLER... When PI Kinsey Millhone's good friend and colleague Parnell Perkins is found mu… read more

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18. The Valley of Fear

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , David Timson

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Audio CD

The Sherlock Holmes series read in unabridged form by David Timson is widely regarded as one of the… read more

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19. Buying Time

By: Joe Haldeman

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

In the 21st century, immortality via the complex operation known as the Stileman Process is attaina… read more

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20. B is for Burglar (Kinsey Millhone, #2)

By: Sue Grafton

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Although business has been slow lately for P.I. Kinsey Millhone, she's reluctant to take on the cas… read more

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21. E is for Evidence (Kinsey Millhone, #5)

By: Sue Grafton

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Being a twice-divorced, happily independent loner has worked like a charm for P.I. Kinsey Millhone-… read more

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22. The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more

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23. I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)

By: Sue Grafton

3.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

2 cassettes / 3 hours Read by Judy Kaye When David Barney was acquitted in the shooting death of hi… read more

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24. The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell, #1)

By: Laurie R. King

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. H… read more

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25. J is for Judgment (Kinsey Millhone, #10)

By: Sue Grafton

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Wendell Jaffe looks great for a dead man! He's been six feet under for five years ago--until his fo… read more

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26. The Confession of Brother Haluin (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #15)

By: Ellis Peters

4.33

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Brother Cadfael is witness to a shocking near-death confession and accompanies a fellow Benedictine… read more

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27. The Cosgrove Report: Being the Private Inquiry of a Pinkerton Detective into the Death of President Lincoln

By: G.J.A. O'Toole , None , None

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Cosgrove Reportis both a gripping historical thriller and a new and entirely plausible solution… read more

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28. The Amish Wife

By: Gregg Olsen

3.49

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Am… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Autumn Softly Fell (Brannans Family Saga #1) by Dominic Luke

29. Autumn Softly Fell (Brannans Family Saga #1)

By: Dominic Luke

4.07

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

An evocative and charming Edwardian family saga Dorothea looked out of the nursery window. Hours… read more

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  • fiction
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30. When We Were Friends: A Short Story

By: Jane Green

3.55

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Jane Green comes a riveting story about a friendship that tu… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Maxwell Mystery (The Fleming Stone Mysteries) by Carolyn Wells

31. The Maxwell Mystery (The Fleming Stone Mysteries)

By: Carolyn Wells

3.60

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

A high-class soiree turns deadly in this classic mystery featuring the ingenious investigator Flemi… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics

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Jack Finney

3.89

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Sue Grafton

3.95

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Edmund Crispin

3.76

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Arthur Machen

3.69

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Richard Harding Davis

3.74

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Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

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Patricia Wentworth

3.90

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Louis Joseph Vance

3.92

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