10 Best mystery books like My Friend the Murderer by Arthur Conan Doyle

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My Friend the Murderer

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.26

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A murderer is hounded for the rest of his life—not for his crimes, but for the very act that won hi…

If you liked the mystery plot in My Friend the Murderer by Arthur Conan Doyle , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Million Dollar Bond Robbery: a Hercule Poirot Short Story (Hercule Poirot, #SS-22) by Agatha Christie, David Suchet

1. The Million Dollar Bond Robbery: a Hercule Poirot Short Story (Hercule Poirot, #SS-22)

By: Agatha Christie , David Suchet

3.54

Format: 326 pages, Audiobook

Philip Ridgeway, a young banker, is suspected of stealing one million dollars in Liberty Bonds on a… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by M.R. James

2. Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad

By: M.R. James

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Professor Parkins finds an old whistle, his stay at Globe Inn takes a turn for the eerie. read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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3. The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

4.88

Format: 242 pages, ebook

Previously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates. An Italian count telephones his do… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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4. The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

4.03

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Previously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates. Poirot tasks his friends with solv… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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5. The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

4.22

Format: None pages,

Previously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates An aging, heavily-insured country s… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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6. The Kidnapped Prime Minister: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

3.71

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Just as World War I is drawing to an end, the prime minister is kidnapped. It is down to Hercule Po… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

7. The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

Mr. Davenheim, a wealthy financier, leaves his home to mail a letter, then fails to return. The sto… read more

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8. The Adventure of the ‘Western Star': A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Audio

Movie star Mary Marvell consults with Hercule Poirot after receiving threatening letters that warn … read more

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9. The Adventure of the Cheap Flat: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

3.43

Format: 64 pages, ebook

Previously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates. When a redheaded stranger gossips … read more

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10. Journey to the Center of the Earth

By: Jules Verne , Kim Stanley Robinson , Lowell Bair

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Axel,"

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

"Then don’t you despair?"

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

"I dream with my eyes open."

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

"And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow."

-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

11. The Case of Jennie Brice

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A blood-stained rope and towel, and a missing tenant, convince Mrs. Pittman that a murder has been … read more

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12. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

13. The Case of the Missing Will: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

By: Agatha Christie , David Suchet

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Audiobook

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14. The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

3.53

Format: 256 pages, ebook

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15. Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.90

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

1888 W Africa. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by mutineers. He builds a snug cabin … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Teach me to speak the language of men."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

"P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)

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16. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

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17. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

Cover of The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb: a Hercule Poirot Short Story (Hercule Poirot, #SS-13) by Agatha Christie

18. The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb: a Hercule Poirot Short Story (Hercule Poirot, #SS-13)

By: Agatha Christie

3.68

Format: 1 pages, Audio Cassette

Do you believe in the curse surrounding the opening of King Tutankhamun's tomb in late 1922? Within… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Murder in an Irish Churchyard (Irish Village Mystery, #3) by Carlene O'Connor

19. Murder in an Irish Churchyard (Irish Village Mystery, #3)

By: Carlene O'Connor

4.07

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

After joining the police force of her small Irish village, a local woman must investigate the murde… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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20. The Paradise Mystery

By: J.S. Fletcher

3.63

Format: 108 pages, Kindle Edition

A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of My Friend the Murderer by Arthur Conan Doyle

21. My Friend the Murderer

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.26

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A murderer is hounded for the rest of his life—not for his crimes, but for the very act that won hi… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Conan Doyle's My Friend the Murderer book and Arthur Conan Doyle's My Friend the Murderer

  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

15 Top fiction books like My Friend the Murderer by Arthur Conan Doyle

Transform Your Habits

The Million Dollar Bond Robbery: a Hercule Poirot Short Story (Hercule Poirot, #SS-22)

Agatha Christie , David Suchet

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad

M.R. James

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman: A Short Story

Agatha Christie

4.88

Transform Your Habits

The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge: A Short Story

Agatha Christie

4.03

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17 Best fiction books like Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lowell Bair

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Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

Arthur Conan Doyle

3.93

Transform Your Habits

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

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

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

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