12 best-selling detective books like Death in the House of Rain by 林斯諺

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Death in the House of Rain

By: 林斯諺

3.50

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

“Lin makes the tropes of golden age locked-room crime fiction feel fresh in this taut and ingenious…

If you liked the detective plot in Death in the House of Rain by 林斯諺 , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie

1. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

By: Agatha Christie

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Was it a misstep that sent a handsome stranger plummeting to his death from a cliff? Or something m… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
"Why didn't they ask the Evans?"

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"A woman would know all right about her own husband."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Cover of Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse by Otsuichi, Nathan Collins

2. Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse

By: Otsuichi , Nathan Collins

3.89

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Two short novels, including the title story and Black Fairy Tale, plus a bonus short story. Summer … read more

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  • mystery
  • asian literature
  • fiction
Cover of Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4) by Christianna Brand

3. Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

By: Christianna Brand

3.55

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

At a medieval pageant, Inspector Cockrill investigates a dramatic death Ever since she drove her… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"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)

Cover of The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, Sōji Shimada, Ho-Ling Wong

4. The Decagon House Murders

By: Yukito Ayatsuji , Sōji Shimada , Ho-Ling Wong

2.50

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly mu… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Tragedy of X by Ellery Queen, Barnaby Ross

5. The Tragedy of X

By: Ellery Queen , Barnaby Ross

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

New York City, the early 30's. A man is poisoned on a crowded streetcar during rush hour. Everyone … read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
Cover of The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2) by Carter Dickson

6. The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2)

By: Carter Dickson

3.66

Format: 176 pages,

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
Cover of Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie, Steven Saylor

7. Death Comes as the End

By: Agatha Christie , Steven Saylor

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi, Deborah Boliver Boehm

8. The Tattoo Murder Case

By: Akimitsu Takagi , Deborah Boliver Boehm

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

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

By: John Dickson Carr

4.01

Format: 217 pages,

read more

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10. The Moai Island Puzzle

By: Sōji Shimada , Ho-Ling Wong , Alice Arisugawa

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In his introduction, Soji Shimada, the doyen of the Japanese form of Golden Age detective fiction k… read more

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Cover of Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5) by Sophie Hannah

11. Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

By: Sophie Hannah

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Hannah's Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5) book and 林斯諺's Death in the House of Rain

  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
Cover of The Wintringham Mystery by Anthony Berkeley

12. The Wintringham Mystery

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the fo… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Berkeley's The Wintringham Mystery book and 林斯諺's Death in the House of Rain

  • mystery
  • fiction
"For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity."

-Anthony Berkeley, The Wintringham Mystery

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13. The Twyford Code

By: Janice Hallett

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's time to solve the murder of the century... Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"A lot of talk inside about feelings. How feelings are like visitors with something to give you. If they knock on your door: answer. Let em in. Accept the gift. Say cheers, mate. Otherwise, they said,…"

-Janice Hallett, The Twyford Code

Cover of The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1) by Seishi Yokomizo

14. The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.66

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translate… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
"What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One b…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

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15. Second Sister

By: Chan Ho-Kei

4.42

Format: 495 pages, Paperback

Chan Ho-Kei’s The Borrowed was one of the most acclaimed international crime novels of recent years… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
Cover of Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4) by Seishi Yokomizo

16. Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the i… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
"Poverty is the mother of crime. If people are poor, they lose all sense of shame, and behave appallingly."

-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

"Mảnh trăng lưỡi liềm mùng mười còn treo trên sườn núi Suribachi, bầu trời lấp lánh muôn ánh sao. Sông Ngân kéo chiếc đuôi dài thượt ngang qua, có thể thấy thấp thoáng quầng sáng trắng sữa. Đảo Ngục M…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

Cover of The Ginza Ghost by Keikichi Ōsaka

17. The Ginza Ghost

By: Keikichi Ōsaka

3.68

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

The Japanese form of Golden Age detective fiction was re-launched in the early 1980s as shin honkak… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
Cover of The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2) by Yukito Ayatsuji

18. The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

By: Yukito Ayatsuji

3.62

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Ever since a horrific car accident, Fujinuma Kiichi has lived a reclusive existence in the remote M… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"A cold death mask worn by a living man."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"It sounded like the beating heart of the house."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"In the gloomy darkness, I revealed my accursed face."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"He cursed the storm that had upset his peaceful life."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

Cover of The Murder Wheel (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #2) by Tom   Mead

19. The Murder Wheel (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #2)

By: Tom Mead

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In London, 1938, young and idealistic lawyer Edmund Ibbs is trying to find any shred of evidence th… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4) by Keigo Higashino

20. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)

By: Keigo Higashino

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
Cover of The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5) by Seishi Yokomizo

21. The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.89

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of crime. Amid the rubb… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3) by Seishi Yokomizo

22. The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.83

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

The third title in Japan’s most popular murder mystery series — after The Honjin Murders and The In… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
"The only person who had not touched the pickles was me! I never did like pickles..."

-Seishi Yokomizo, The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)

Cover of The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi

23. The Noh Mask Murder

By: Akimitsu Takagi

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in t… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Murder at Shijinso by Masahiro Imamura

24. Murder at Shijinso

By: Masahiro Imamura

3.86

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Hamura Yuzuru, seorang mahasiswa tahun pertama, terpaksa ikut sebuah acara menginap di Vila Shijins… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
Cover of The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6) by Seishi Yokomizo

25. The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain vill… read more

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  • mystery
  • asian literature
  • fiction
Cover of Death Within the Evil Eye by Masahiro Imamura

26. Death Within the Evil Eye

By: Masahiro Imamura

4.13

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

"... one of the cleverest riffs ever on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None...A tour de forc… read more

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Cover of Lời Nguyền Shiraisan by Otsuichi

27. Lời Nguyền Shiraisan

By: Otsuichi

3.42

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Trước khi qua đời, những người này đều từng nghe một truyện kinh dị, tên là Lời nguyền Shiraisan. T… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Death in the House of Rain by 林斯諺

28. Death in the House of Rain

By: 林斯諺

3.50

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

“Lin makes the tropes of golden age locked-room crime fiction feel fresh in this taut and ingenious… read more

Similar categories in 林斯諺's Death in the House of Rain book and 林斯諺's Death in the House of Rain

  • mystery
  • detective
  • asian literature
  • fiction
Cover of Lending The Key To The Locked Room by Tokuya Higashigawa

29. Lending The Key To The Locked Room

By: Tokuya Higashigawa

3.72

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

Ryuhei, a would-be film director, has just been dumped by his girl friend and his drunken threats t… read more

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  • mystery
  • asian literature
Cover of Chiêng Nguyện Hồn Ai by 王元(汤梅芝)

30. Chiêng Nguyện Hồn Ai

By: 王元(汤梅芝)

2.74

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Chủ nhân một hòn đảo nọ tổ chức trò chơi sinh tồn, ai sống sót tới cùng thì sẽ được sở hữu hòn đảo … read more

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Cover of Núi Chuột Quét by 呼延云

31. Núi Chuột Quét

By: 呼延云

3.75

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

Mười năm trước, cả Tây Giao rùng mình hãi hùng trước loạt án giết người đẫm máu nhằm vào những phụ … read more

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25 Best fiction books like Death in the House of Rain by 林斯諺

Transform Your Habits

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Agatha Christie

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse

Otsuichi , Nathan Collins

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Christianna Brand

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Decagon House Murders

Yukito Ayatsuji , Sōji Shimada , Ho-Ling Wong

2.50

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29 Best fiction books like The Murder Wheel (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #2) by Tom Mead

Transform Your Habits

He Who Whispers (Dr. Gideon Fell, #16)

John Dickson Carr

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Christianna Brand

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

Sophie Hannah

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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