8 Best mystery books like The Scarlet Imperial by Dorothy B. Hughes

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The Scarlet Imperial

By: Dorothy B. Hughes

3.66

Format: 127 pages, ebook

Handed a mysterious package, a woman finds herself caught in a deadly game Her name is not Eliza W…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Scarlet Imperial by Dorothy B. Hughes , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

2. The Wolf

By: Lorenzo Carcaterra

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra--the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Sleepers,… read more

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3. Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #23)

By: Agatha Christie

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of Eng… read more

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4. The Great Train Robbery

By: Michael Crichton

4.33

Format: 226 pages,

"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIE… read more

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5. Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.24

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Society’s eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally suc… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy L. Sayers's Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13) book and Dorothy B. Hughes's The Scarlet Imperial

  • mystery
"in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

6. A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2)

By: Louise Penny

4.34

Format: 592 pages,

Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparin… read more

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7. A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

By: Arkady Martine

4.12

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to disco… read more

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  • mystery
"made in blood, acclaimed in sunlight."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"An end to empires. An immovable object to crash an impossible force upon, and break it."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

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8. Two Nights in Lisbon

By: Chris Pavone

3.73

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

Tautly wound and expertly crafted, Two Nights in Lisbon is a riveting thriller about a woman under … read more

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  • mystery

9. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more

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  • mystery
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10. The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

By: Richard Osman

4.37

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with w… read more

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  • mystery
"Does it hurt?" asks Ibrahim. "Only when I breathe," says Donna."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"Why did people always get so angry? We'll all be dead soon enough."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"La gente que nunca se pierde no ha viajado nunca a ningún sitio interesante."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"He buys three other books too, because he wants the bookshop still to be there when he comes back next week."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

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11. The Investigator (Letty Davenport, #1)

By: John Sandford

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investi… read more

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  • mystery
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12. Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1)

By: Harlan Coben

4.09

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

The new novel from Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author and creator of The Stranger o… read more

Similar categories in Harlan Coben's Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1) book and Dorothy B. Hughes's The Scarlet Imperial

  • mystery
"It comforts us to think that we have control when we don’t."

-Harlan Coben, Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1)

"Not all overly attentive boyfriends are psychos—but all psychos are overly attentive boyfriends"

-Harlan Coben, Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1)

"Not all overly attentive boyfriends are psychos—but all psychos are overly attentive boyfriends."

-Harlan Coben, Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1)

"Not all overly attentive boyfriends are psychos - but all psychos are overly attentive boyfriends."

-Harlan Coben, Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1)

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13. French Exit

By: Patrick deWitt

3.55

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow an… read more

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"Oh, to be youngish and in love-ish!"

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

"I've been neither lucky nor unlucky. I've been luckless - such a bore"

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

"She studied her son with a melancholic endearment. “Did you drink to the brink of sound reasoning?"

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

"She knew she was living improperly but hadn’t the strength to correct herself. She had twenty thousand euros left; she’d taken to flushing hundreds down the toilet each morning."

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

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14. The Scarlet Imperial

By: Dorothy B. Hughes

3.66

Format: 127 pages, ebook

Handed a mysterious package, a woman finds herself caught in a deadly game Her name is not Eliza W… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy B. Hughes's The Scarlet Imperial book and Dorothy B. Hughes's The Scarlet Imperial

  • mystery

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