17 best-selling mystery books like The Loss of the Jane Vosper by Freeman Wills Crofts

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The Loss of the Jane Vosper

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

4.02

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, th…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Loss of the Jane Vosper by Freeman Wills Crofts , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Typhoon

By: Joseph Conrad

3.64

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Captain MacWhirr cannot fathom anything outside the facts of his own life. His first mate, Mr. Juke… read more

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"Fu qualcosa di formidabile e di subitaneo, come l'improvviso rompersi di un vaso colmo d'ira."

-Joseph Conrad, Typhoon

"The only secret of her life was her abject terror of the time when her husband would come home to stay for good."

-Joseph Conrad, Typhoon

"He was a corpulent man, with a gift for sly chaffing, which to the end of his life he exercised in his intercourse with his son, a little pityingly, as if upon a half-witted person."

-Joseph Conrad, Typhoon

"Tale è la potenza disgregatrice di un uragano: essa isola l’individuo dai suoi simili. Un terremoto, una frana, una valanga soverchiano l’uomo incidentalmente, per così dire senza passione. La furia …"

-Joseph Conrad, Typhoon

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2. Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

By: Margery Allingham

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Albert Campion returns from three years’ work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his m… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
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3. Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Format: None pages,

A spa-goer resorts to murder. Even down in New Zealand, war-fueled spy fever is running wild. Near … read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
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4. Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3)

By: Christianna Brand

3.56

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In the height of an English summer, Grandfather is found dead in the little Grecian lodge among the… read more

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

5. 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
  • detective
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6. Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

It was planned as an act of a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. … read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
"It's like one of those affairs in books," said Bailey disgustedly."Someone trying to think up a new way to do a murder. Silly, I call it." "What do you say, Roper?" said Alleyn. "To my way of thinkin…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

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7. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

By: Jerome K. Jerome

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 - 1927), English author, known for his humorous essays."What readers ask… read more

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8. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)

By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more

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9. Wives and Daughters

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Pam Morris

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughterscentres on the story of yout… read more

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10. Nil (Nil, #1)

By: Lynne Matson

4.32

Format: 224 pages, ebook

On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days--to escape,… read more

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11. The Labours of Hercules (Hercule Poirot, #26)

By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Audio CD

First published in book form in 1947, The Labours of Hercules comprises an even dozen mysteries sta… read more

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12. The Nigger of the Narcissus

By: Joseph Conrad

4.21

Format: 391 pages,

The Nigger of the Narcissusis a magnificent saga of suspense, compassion, and elemental beauty--the… read more

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13. Death of an Airman

By: Christopher St. John Sprigg

4.23

Format: 528 pages,

Death of an Airmanis an enjoyable and unorthodox whodunit from a writer whose short life was as rem… read more

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14. Night Walk

By: Bob Shaw

3.80

Format: 281 pages, Mass Market Paperback

For 'refusing to co-operate' the Emm Luther Special Police took out Earth agent Sam Tallon's eyes a… read more

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15. Death at the Bar (Roderick Alleyn, #9)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A cosy game of darts in a cosy English pub is going well until one of the players dies on the spot.… read more

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16. Death in a White Tie (Roderick Alleyn, #7)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's… read more

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17. The Bookseller of Inverness

By: S.G. MacLean

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more

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  • mystery
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18. The Strong Room: A Golden Age Mystery

By: R.A.J. Walling

4.05

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

Golden Age of Crime writer R.A.J. Walling’s first-ever crime novel, republished here for the first … read more

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  • mystery
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19. The Harvest Murder

By: John Rhode

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

The Harvest Murder, first published in 1937 (and also published under the title Death in the Hop Fi… read more

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  • mystery
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20. The Yorkshire Moorland Mystery

By: J.S. Fletcher

3.93

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

A famous American book collector is found dead, at the bottom of Herlesdem Scar on the lonley Yorsh… read more

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  • mystery
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21. Bats in the Belfry (Robert MacDonald #13)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.74

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Bruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels—but his early promise did … read more

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  • mystery
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22. The Edinburgh Mystery: And Other Tales of Scottish Crime

By: Martin Edwards

3.66

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Highlands to the borders, the bustling cities to the remote isles in cold seas, the unique… read more

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  • mystery
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23. Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare

By: Cyril Hare

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Cyril Hare's short stories were mostly written for the London Evening Standard. Among them, The Sto… read more

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  • mystery
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24. Impact of Evidence

By: E. C. R. Lorac

4.32

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

AMONG THE hills of the Welsh borders a little group of farmsteads is isolated by snow and ice, then… read more

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25. A Bullet for Rhino (Inspector Harry Charlton, #9)

By: Clifford Witting

4.00

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

The ninth case of Inspector Charlton. As an Old Boy of Mereworth School, Charlton was luckily on… read more

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26. Murder in Vienna

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.85

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

Superintendent Macdonald, CID, studied his fellow-passengers on the Vienna plane simply because he … read more

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  • mystery
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27. Dr. Priestley Lays a Trap

By: John Rhode

4.17

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr. Priestley Lays a Trap, first published in 1933 (and also known by the title The Motor Rally Mys… read more

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  • mystery
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28. The Crime

By: Anthony Lang

4.14

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A brilliantly-written detective story’ The Daily Mail‘A detective story of the first order’ Cassel… read more

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29. Shot on the Downs

By: Victor L. Whitechurch

4.02

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

‘All Whitechurch’s stories have distinct merit’ Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime‘Whitechurch’s… read more

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  • mystery
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30. The Loss of the Jane Vosper

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

4.02

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, th… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
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31. The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)

By: Louise Penny

4.44

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone ca… read more

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  • mystery

5 best-selling detective books like The Loss of the Jane Vosper by Freeman Wills Crofts

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Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

Margery Allingham

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

Ngaio Marsh

3.80

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A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)

Ngaio Marsh

3.80

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Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

Ngaio Marsh

3.96

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Murder à la Mode

Patricia Moyes

3.89

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The Black Wings

Moray Dalton

4.18

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Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery

Anthony Berkeley

3.90

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The Missing Link: A Golden Age Murder Mystery

George Varney

3.90

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