6 Top mystery books like El lápiz by Raymond Chandler

Cover of El lápiz by Raymond Chandler

El lápiz

By: Raymond Chandler

3.44

Format: 49 pages, Kindle Edition

El último relato corto de Raymond Chandler destila violencia, lirismo y desesperación. Cuando la m…

If you liked the mystery plot in El lápiz by Raymond Chandler , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, #3; Nora Kelly, #0B) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

1. The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, #3; Nora Kelly, #0B)

By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child

4.27

Format: 629 pages, Paperback

In downtown Manhattan, a gruesome discovery has just been made-an underground charnel house contain… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large."

-Douglas Preston, The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, #3; Nora Kelly, #0B)

"The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid."

-Douglas Preston, The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, #3; Nora Kelly, #0B)

Cover of Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

2. Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4)

By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child

4.21

Format: 571 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"Chauncy made a huge effort to control himself. “I had lunch at Maisie’s Diner."

-Douglas Preston, Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4)

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3. The Man in the High Castle

By: Philip K. Dick

3.60

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more

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"Don’t you feel it?"

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

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4. Midnight Blue

By: Ross Macdonald

3.61

Format: 192 pages,

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  • mystery
Cover of The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun, Ana Goldstein

5. The Baron in the Trees

By: Italo Calvino , Archibald Colquhoun , Ana Goldstein

4.02

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life l… read more

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"Why d’you make me suffer?" “Because I love you."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"Mais je fais une chose tout à fait bonne: je vis dans les arbres"

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"Chi vuole guardare bene la terra deve tenersi alla distanza necessaria."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

6. The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

By: Jo Nesbø , Don Bartlett

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesbo's antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back… read more

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7. From the Earth to the Moon

By: Jules Verne

3.76

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Een in de 19e eeuw geschreven verhaal over een reis naar de maan, waaruit blijkt dat de schrijver i… read more

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"Time has no business to keep a whole country in suspense."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"No sé si los mundos están habitados, y como no lo sé, voy a verlo."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure"

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"In fact they did to others that which they would not they should do to them— that grand principle of immortality upon which rests the whole art of war."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

8. En el enjambre

By: Byung-Chul Han , None

3.76

Format: 360 pages,

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9. All Hallows' Eve

By: Charles Williams

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Charles Williams had a genius for choosing strange and exciting themes for his novels and making th… read more

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10. The Dream

By: Agatha Christie

2.92

Format: None pages, ebook

Hercule Poirot is reluctant to answer a letter demanding his services by the reclusive and eccentri… read more

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11. The Purloined Letter

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.00

Format: 468 pages, Library Binding

The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his t… read more

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12. The Case Of The Crimson Kiss: A Perry Mason Novelette, And Other Stories

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.07

Format: None pages,

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13. Los jefes y Los cachorros

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

Los Jefes y Los cachorros sirvieron como antecedente, para la construccion de las obras de Vargas L… read more

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Cover of Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza

14. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more

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  • crime
"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

Cover of 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

15. 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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"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)

Cover of Últimos días en Berlín by Paloma Sánchez-Garnica

16. Últimos días en Berlín

By: Paloma Sánchez-Garnica

4.47

Format: 648 pages, Hardcover

Finalista Premio Planeta 2021. Cuando Yuri Santacruz asistió al nombramiento como canciller de A… read more

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Cover of Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn

17. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

By: Elinor Cleghorn

4.11

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more

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"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"

-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

Cover of El castillo de Barbazul (Terra Alta, #3) by Javier Cercas

18. El castillo de Barbazul (Terra Alta, #3)

By: Javier Cercas

3.68

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Años después de lo ocurrido en Independencia, Melchor Marín ya no es policía: trabaja como bibliote… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of El lápiz by Raymond Chandler

19. El lápiz

By: Raymond Chandler

3.44

Format: 49 pages, Kindle Edition

El último relato corto de Raymond Chandler destila violencia, lirismo y desesperación. Cuando la m… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

20. The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps that Ran

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.47

Format: None pages, None

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  • mystery
Cover of "Too Many Have Lived": first appearance in The American Magazine, October 1932 by Dashiell Hammett

21. "Too Many Have Lived": first appearance in The American Magazine, October 1932

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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5 best-selling crime books like El lápiz by Raymond Chandler

Transform Your Habits

The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, #3; Nora Kelly, #0B)

Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4)

Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

Transform Your Habits

El castillo de Barbazul (Terra Alta, #3)

Javier Cercas

3.68

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9 Top fiction books like The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun, Ana Goldstein

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Tim Parks , William Weaver , Giorgio Bassani

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Transform Your Habits

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Sostiene Pereira

Antonio Tabucchi

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Zeno's Conscience

Italo Svevo , William Weaver

4.25

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