8 Best classics books like The Sinister Man by Edgar Wallace

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The Sinister Man

By: Edgar Wallace

3.71

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screen…

If you liked the classics plot in The Sinister Man by Edgar Wallace , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1) by Agatha Christie

1. Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Murder at the Vicaragemarks the debut of Agatha Christie's unflappable and much beloved female dete… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1) book and Edgar Wallace's The Sinister Man

  • mystery
  • detective
  • classics
  • crime
Cover of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Richard Maxwell

2. A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more

Similar categories in Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities book and Edgar Wallace's The Sinister Man

  • classics
"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Cover of The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5) by Agatha Christie

3. 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

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5) book and Edgar Wallace's The Sinister Man

  • mystery
  • detective
  • classics
  • 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)

Cover of The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2) by Agatha Christie

4. The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

By: Agatha Christie

3.80

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic d… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • classics
  • crime
"It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it."

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

"You've brought out your best butter." [you're laying on the flattery thickly]"

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

"What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it."

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

5. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his acci… read more

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Cover of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) by Arthur Conan Doyle

6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.29

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Stra… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) book and Edgar Wallace's The Sinister Man

  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
"There have,"

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

"Where is your warrant?"

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

"I have taken to living by my wits."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

"Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

Cover of The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2) by Agatha Christie

7. The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

By: Agatha Christie

3.82

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2) book and Edgar Wallace's The Sinister Man

  • mystery
  • detective
  • classics
  • crime
"Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory"

-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

"Because when you’re in love, you think you’re invincible. It blinds you. And you don’t seem to care."

-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

"What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean."

-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

"Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a…"

-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

Cover of 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7) by Agatha Christie

8. 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

By: Agatha Christie

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For an instant the two trains ran together, going in the same direction side by side. In that froze… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7) book and Edgar Wallace's The Sinister Man

  • mystery
  • detective
  • classics
  • crime
"Don’t go,"

-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

"I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject."

-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

"Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them."

-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

Cover of The Sinister Man by Edgar Wallace

9. The Sinister Man

By: Edgar Wallace

3.71

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screen… read more

Similar categories in Edgar Wallace's The Sinister Man book and Edgar Wallace's The Sinister Man

  • mystery
  • detective
  • classics
  • crime

7 Best crime books like The Sinister Man by Edgar Wallace

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Agatha Christie

4.18

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The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

Agatha Christie

3.84

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The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

Agatha Christie

3.80

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.29

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10 must-read fiction books like Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1) by Agatha Christie

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The Floating Admiral

Agatha Christie , Dorothy L. Sayers , G.K. Chesterton , Freeman Wills Crofts , Clemence Dane , Victor L. Whitechurch , The Detection Club , Anthony Berkeley , Ronald Knox , Edgar Jepson , Henry Wade , Milward Kennedy , John Rhode , G.D.H. Cole , Margaret Cole

3.78

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Giant's Bread

Agatha Christie , Mary Westmacott

3.95

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Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)

Agatha Christie

4.18

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The Unexpected Guest

Agatha Christie , Charles Osborne

3.95

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