26 Best mystery books like The Seventh Guest by Gaston Boca

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The Seventh Guest

By: Gaston Boca

3.49

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Boca’s brilliant impossible crime novel... takes Paris sleuths Stéphane Triel and Luc Duthiel into …

If you liked the mystery plot in The Seventh Guest by Gaston Boca , here is a list of 26 books like this:

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1. The Man in the Brown Suit

By: Agatha Christie

3.95

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her—a… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"You know I want you. You know that I’d give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away from the world, forever and ever."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"But his face should really inspire you with confidence, my dear lady. No self-respecting murderer would ever consent to look like one. Crippen now, I believe was one of the pleasantest fellows imagin…"

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

Cover of He Who Whispers (Dr. Gideon Fell, #16) by John Dickson Carr

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

By: John Dickson Carr

3.91

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

At the edge of the woods by the river stands the tower. Once part of a chateau since burnt down, o… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"We don't fall in love with a woman because of her good character."

-John Dickson Carr, He Who Whispers (Dr. Gideon Fell, #16)

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3. The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3)

By: Edmund Crispin

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Richard Cadogan's Oxford holiday turns into a mystery solving adventure full of dangerous twists an… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"What are you going to do with your self now?'... 'I? said Fen. 'I shall pursue my orderly and dignified progress towards the grave."

-Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3)

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4. The House that Kills

By: Noël Vindry

3.38

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

In its starred review Publisher's Weekly says: "Vindry displays gifts for puzzle making and a creep… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Seventh Hypothesis (Dr. Twist #6) by Paul Halter, John Pugmire

5. The Seventh Hypothesis (Dr. Twist #6)

By: Paul Halter , John Pugmire

3.79

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Characters dressed in the garb of 17th century plague doctors roaming alleyways haunted by Jack the… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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6. Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

By: Louise Penny

4.36

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Arm… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"The night is a strawberry."

-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

"If less was more, she had a great deal."

-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

"Things are strongest where they're broken."

-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

"I sometimes think we’re a rowboat society."

-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

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7. The Case of the Sulky Girl

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Unable to marry due to a stipulation in her late father's will--which states that she will lose his… read more

Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Sulky Girl book and Gaston Boca's The Seventh Guest

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1) by Ngaio Marsh

8. A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

9. The Arabian Nights Murder (Dr. Gideon Fell, #7)

By: John Dickson Carr

3.02

Format: None pages,

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Case of the Counterfeit Eye by Erle Stanley Gardner

10. The Case of the Counterfeit Eye

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.98

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

After wealthy businessman Hartley Bassett's apparent suicide, Perry Mason discovers too many suspec… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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11. The Picture from the Past

By: Paul Halter , John Pugmire

4.10

Format: 40 pages,

What is there about the photograph of a street from a bygone era that obsesses John Braid? Why does… read more

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  • mystery

12. 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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13. The Peacock Feather Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #6)

By: Carter Dickson

4.89

Format: 78 pages,

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14. The Madman's Room

By: Paul Halter , John Pugmire

4.13

Format: None pages,

Publishers Weekly says: '... brilliantly piles baffling puzzle upon baffling puzzle... richly atmos… read more

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15. Holy Disorders (Gervase Fen, #2)

By: Edmund Crispin

5.00

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Oxford don and part-time detective Gervase Fen is in the town of Tolnbridge where he is happily bou… read more

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16. Nine Coaches Waiting

By: Sandra Brown , Mary Stewart

3.06

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Linda Martin, an English woman is hired to be a governess for a young French boy. But a strange ter… read more

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17. The Creak on the Stairs (Forbidden Iceland, #1)

By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

3.92

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon beco… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4) by Anthony Horowitz

18. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.09

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

Cover of Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2) by Keigo Higashino

19. Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2)

By: Keigo Higashino

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Detective Kyoichiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct… read more

Similar categories in Keigo Higashino's Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2) book and Gaston Boca's The Seventh Guest

  • mystery
  • fiction
"How come you don't ask me any questions?" "Questions about what?" "About the investigation I'm working on," Kaga replied. "It's usually the first thing people ask me when I make inquiries. 'What's ha…"

-Keigo Higashino, Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2)

Cover of Silent Parade (Detective Galileo, #4) by Keigo Higashino

20. Silent Parade (Detective Galileo, #4)

By: Keigo Higashino

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino’s best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns i… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Ice Cold Malice (DCI Evan Warlow, #3) by Rhys Dylan

21. Ice Cold Malice (DCI Evan Warlow, #3)

By: Rhys Dylan

4.51

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Revenge is a dish best served… ice cold. While beach combing on MOD property, two young boys stu… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Girl Who Survived by Lisa Jackson

22. The Girl Who Survived

By: Lisa Jackson

3.94

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In this deviously volatile, deliciously creepy thriller from the #1 New York Times bestseller, the … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of A Man by Keiichirō Hirano

23. A Man

By: Keiichirō Hirano

3.93

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A man follows another man’s trail of lies in a compelling psychological story about the search for … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"He or she would need countless such anonymous acts of goodwill to safely enter the world and grow up. And he found it comforting to know that he had been able to offer one of them."

-Keiichirō Hirano, A Man

Cover of Telling Lies (Sam Mason Mysteries, #1) by L.A. Dobbs

24. Telling Lies (Sam Mason Mysteries, #1)

By: L.A. Dobbs

4.07

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

The small police force of White Rock, New Hampshire, is still reeling from the death of Officer Tyl… read more

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

25. 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
  • 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 A Murder of Crows (Nell Ward, #1) by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett

26. A Murder of Crows (Nell Ward, #1)

By: Sarah Yarwood-Lovett

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Nell Ward is an ecologist, not a detective. But when she’s the prime suspect in a murder, only h… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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27. Cottage Sinister

By: Q. Patrick

3.77

Format: 192 pages, ebook

A sleepy English village is shaken by murder in this mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author wh… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Who Killed Miss Finch? (Edward Crisp, #1) by Peter Boon

28. Who Killed Miss Finch? (Edward Crisp, #1)

By: Peter Boon

3.99

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Do YOU love a classic WHODUNNIT? Edward Crisp does. That is, until hated local Head Teacher M… read more

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  • mystery
  • 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
Cover of S.S. Murder by Q. Patrick

30. S.S. Murder

By: Q. Patrick

3.62

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s homicide on the high seas in this “A 1 mystery” by the Edgar Award–winning author who wrote th… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Seventh Guest by Gaston Boca

31. The Seventh Guest

By: Gaston Boca

3.49

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Boca’s brilliant impossible crime novel... takes Paris sleuths Stéphane Triel and Luc Duthiel into … read more

Similar categories in Gaston Boca's The Seventh Guest book and Gaston Boca's The Seventh Guest

  • mystery
  • fiction

22 must-read fiction books like The Seventh Guest by Gaston Boca

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The Man in the Brown Suit

Agatha Christie

3.95

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

John Dickson Carr

3.91

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The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3)

Edmund Crispin

3.76

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The Seventh Hypothesis (Dr. Twist #6)

Paul Halter , John Pugmire

3.79

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Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

Naomi Alderman

3.81

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

Sophie Hannah

3.75

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Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

Robert Thorogood

3.92

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Anthony Horowitz

4.09

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