21 best-selling mystery books like Gold Mask by Edogawa Rampo

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Gold Mask

By: Edogawa Rampo

3.45

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Gold Mask is Edogawa Rampo's sixth novel featuring detective Akechi Kogorō, as he investigates the …

If you liked the mystery plot in Gold Mask by Edogawa Rampo , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Maigret and the Headless Corpse (English and French Edition) by Georges Simenon, Eileen Ellenbogen

1. Maigret and the Headless Corpse (English and French Edition)

By: Georges Simenon , Eileen Ellenbogen

3.83

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

A decapitated male corpse, found in a Paris canal, leads Inspector Maigret to suspect the sexually … read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
"Could you tell me, Maigret, why plainclothes policemen always go around in twos, just like plumbers?"

-Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Headless Corpse (English and French Edition)

"Maigret had often tried to get other people, including men of experience, to admit that those who fall, especially those who have a morbid determination to descend ever lower, are almost always ideal…"

-Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Headless Corpse (English and French Edition)

"She must have been pretty once. At least, like everyone, she had been young. Now her eyes, her mouth, her whole body exuded weakness. Could it be that she was ill and waiting for her next attack? Som…"

-Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Headless Corpse (English and French Edition)

Cover of The Labyrinth Makers (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #1) by Anthony  Price

2. The Labyrinth Makers (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #1)

By: Anthony Price

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

David Audley is an unlikely spy. True, he works for England's Ministry of Defense, but strictly as … read more

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  • mystery
  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
Cover of The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada, Shika MacKenzie, Ross MacKenzie

3. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

By: Sōji Shimada , Shika MacKenzie , Ross MacKenzie

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Astrologer, fortuneteller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must in one week solve a myste… read more

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  • detective
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • japan
"Art is not to copy the work of another; real art exists only in difference."

-Sōji Shimada, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

"I'm a huge fan of mysteries; in fact, they're almost an addiction. If a week goes by without reading a mystery, I suffer withdrawal symptoms. Then I wander around like I'm sleepwalking and wake up in…"

-Sōji Shimada, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Cover of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley

4. The Loney

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

"If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere be… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seichō Matsumoto, Beth Cary

5. Inspector Imanishi Investigates

By: Seichō Matsumoto , Beth Cary

4.08

Format: 234 pages,

In a police procedural by Japan's foremost master of mystery, Inspector Imanishi Eitaro, a typicall… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Botchan by Natsume Sōseki, Joel Cohn

6. Botchan

By: Natsume Sōseki , Joel Cohn

3.64

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Like The Catcher in the Rye or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Botchan, a hilarious tale about … read more

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  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
  • japan
"الواقع أن البشر هم أقل ما يمكن الاعتماد عليه في هذا العالم."

-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

"Age should never meddle with such a matter. Mind your own business."

-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

"Really, there’s nothing in the world as undependable as human beings."

-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

"Ketika manusia bebas memutuskan untuk menghormatimu, hadiah yang kaumiliki lebih mahal nilainya daripada apapun."

-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

Cover of The Night at the Crossroads (Maigret #7) by Georges Simenon, Linda Coverdale

7. The Night at the Crossroads (Maigret #7)

By: Georges Simenon , Linda Coverdale

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Georges Simenon's riveting tale of deception in an isolated community, part of Penguin's series of … read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction

8. The Master Key

By: Masako Togawa , None

4.38

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Fans of P.D. James, Robert Barnard and other literate writers in the genre will welcome US publicat… read more

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9. The Chinese Orange Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #8)

By: Ellery Queen

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

An unknown dead man is found in the office of a prosperous publisher. His clothes are on backward, … read more

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10. The Franchise Affair (Inspector Alan Grant, #3)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Mar… read more

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11. The Deadly Percheron

By: Jonathan Lethem , John Franklin Bardin

3.96

Format: None pages,

"The opening chapter defies description. Imagine one of those 1930s screwball comedies with the cra… read more

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12. A Kind Of Anger

By: Eric Ambler

3.84

Format: 255 pages,

Eric Ambler is at the top of his form with A Kind of Anger, which expertly combines a satire of pap… read more

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13. Game Without Rules

By: Michael Gilbert

3.62

Format: None pages,

A collection of 11 stories: - A Prince of Abyssinia (Mar 1962) - On Slay Down (Apr 1962) - The Cat … read more

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14. Pnin

By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge

4.00

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more

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15. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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16. The Whistling

By: Rebecca Netley

3.69

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome has taken the position of nanny to a family on the remote Scot… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Mantis by Kōtarō Isaka

17. The Mantis

By: Kōtarō Isaka

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train and Three Assassins, a propulsive new t… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
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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  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
"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 Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4) by Keigo Higashino

19. 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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  • detective
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman

20. West Heart Kill

By: Dann McDorman

3.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the West Heart country club. Where the drinks are neat but behind closed doors . . . thi… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"You're a private detective."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"The writer of murder, like all writers, must be a miser, conceding revelations bit by bit; for every novel is a puzzle, and every reader a sleuth."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"People hunger for epiphany, you think, they clamor for it, but given a chance, who among us would actually recognize it? Or, having seen it, would choose to act?"

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"This is, you reflect, one of the consolations of the genre: any respectable practitioner must follow the rules in making the truth–however skillfully camouflaged by lies–accessible to all."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

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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  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi

22. 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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  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Jealousy Man and Other Stories by Jo Nesbø

23. The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

By: Jo Nesbø

3.65

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A veritable crime lover’s delight from a true master of mystery and suspense. Experience the #1 New… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Spider Man: From the casebook of Akechi Kogoro by Edogawa Ranpo

24. The Spider Man: From the casebook of Akechi Kogoro

By: Edogawa Ranpo

3.89

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

A dream-like Tokyo is in the grip of a brutal predator. A sadistic killer who turns his victims int… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Hunter of the Grotesque: From the casebook of Akechi Kogoro by Edogawa Ranpo

25. The Hunter of the Grotesque: From the casebook of Akechi Kogoro

By: Edogawa Ranpo

4.10

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

A nightmarish tale of deception, depravity and death, in which no one can be trusted. A fantastical… read more

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

26. 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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  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Meiji Guillotine Murders by Fūtarō Yamada

27. The Meiji Guillotine Murders

By: Fūtarō Yamada

3.34

Format: 379 pages, Paperback

A classic Japanese mystery – a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders in 19th centu… read more

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  • detective
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Examiner by Janice Hallett

28. The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Demon of the Lonely Isle by Edogawa Ranpo

29. The Demon of the Lonely Isle

By: Edogawa Ranpo

4.12

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

Circus freaks. Transgressive desires. Murder and exploitation. 'The Demon of the Lonely Isle' is a … read more

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  • mystery
  • japanese literature
Cover of Gold Mask by Edogawa Rampo

30. Gold Mask

By: Edogawa Rampo

3.45

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Gold Mask is Edogawa Rampo's sixth novel featuring detective Akechi Kogorō, as he investigates the … read more

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  • detective
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • 20th century
  • novels
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Withered Hill by David Barnett

31. Withered Hill

By: David Barnett

4.25

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

If you find your way here, you’re already lost. Inside A year ago Sophie Wickham stumbled into … read more

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  • fiction

21 Best fiction books like Gold Mask by Edogawa Rampo

Transform Your Habits

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Georges Simenon , Eileen Ellenbogen

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Transform Your Habits

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Anthony Price

3.73

Transform Your Habits

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3.87

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3.87

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Hisashi Kashiwai

3.70

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