26 best-selling fiction books like More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes by Nick Rennison

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More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

By: Nick Rennison

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Sherlock Holmes remains the most famous of all fictional detectives. But he was not the only solver…

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1. Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

By: Georges Simenon , David Bellos

3.47

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The first novel in the famous Inspector Maigret series. What Maigret sought, and what he waited … read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
"Sono cose di cui non ci si vanta, cose che a parlarne farebbero sorridere e che pure richiedono una certa dose di eroismo."

-Georges Simenon, Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

"Arrivava solido come il granito, e da quel momento pareva che tutto dovesse spezzarsi contro di lui, sia che avanzasse, sia che restasse piantato sulle gambe leggermente divaricate."

-Georges Simenon, Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

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2. Five Have Plenty of Fun (Famous Five, #14)

By: Enid Blyton

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

El tío Quintín tiene una reunión con dos importantes científicos. Esa noche Julián ve a cuatro mist… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
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3. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
"Fou!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"Boil my brains!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

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4. Five Go to Mystery Moor (Famous Five, #13)

By: Enid Blyton

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

There's something dangerous out on Mystery Moor, and the Famous Five will have to risk the treacher… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
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5. Thin Air (Shetland Island, #6)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.91

Format: None pages,

A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland's … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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6. Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)

By: Agatha Christie

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The tranquility of a lovely cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgewa… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
"... nu trecutul conteaza, ci viitorul."

-Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)

"It is not the past that matters,but the future"

-Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)

"Ah, but people don't run true to form in love affairs."

-Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)

"Because I am Hercule Poirot, I do not need to be told."

-Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)

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7. Maigret and the Man on the Bench

By: Georges Simenon , David Watson

3.77

Format: 134 pages,

Inspector Maigret must untangle the web of lies left behind by a murdered man whose family didn't k… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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8. Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

An island shrouded in mist and a community with secrets buried in the past . . . When a young archa… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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9. The Woodlanders

By: Thomas Hardy , Patricia Ingham

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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10. Serpents in Eden

By: Martin Edwards

3.50

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

'The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the … read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
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11. The Secret of High Eldersham (Desmond Merrion, #1)

By: Miles Burton

4.06

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
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12. The Miracle at Speedy Motors (No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #9)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.40

Format: None pages,

Under the endless skies of Botswana, there is always something Mma Ramotswe can do to help someone … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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13. The Monogram Murders

By: Agatha Christie , Sophie Hannah

3.13

Format: 192 pages, ebook

'I'm a dead woman, or I shall be soon...' Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

14. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)

By: S.J. Parris

3.55

Format: 288 pages,

Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more

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15. This House is Haunted

By: John Boyne

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark… read more

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16. Means of Evil and Other Stories

By: Ruth Rendell

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

Here are five classic Wexford cases that display his remarkable ingenuity -- and that of his creato… read more

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17. 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

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
"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)

18. A Death in the Dales (Kate Shackleton #7)

By: Frances Brody

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

A murder most foul When the landlord of a Yorkshire tavern is killed in plain sight, Freda Simonso… read more

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19. 206 Bones (Temperance Brennan, #12)

By: Kathy Reichs

3.98

Format: None pages,

Cold and alone, bound hands to feet, Tempe Brennan regains consciousness locked in a dark cell--or … read more

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20. Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.77

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

When a murder is committed at a party given in honour of a famous writer-detective, the guests impe… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
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21. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

By: Naomi Alderman

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane M… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • fiction
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22. Blood & Sugar

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

3.93

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock – horribly tortured and branded… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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23. The Port of London Murders

By: Josephine Bell

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Wapping. Tugs and barges on the river. A west-end shop that deals apparently in nothing but lingeri… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
"Miss Pollen did not seem to be a woman given to flights of imagination; indeed ideas appeared to come to her singly, and to enter her mind after a sharp struggle with the resistance they found in the…"

-Josephine Bell, The Port of London Murders

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24. Somebody at the Door

By: Raymond W. Postgate

3.35

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

One bleak Friday evening in January, 1942, Councillor Henry Grayling boards an overcrowded train wi… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
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25. Fell Murder

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.08

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

'...this crime is conditioned by the place. To understand the one you've got to study the other.' … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I set out this evening to learn something about the district, to study the roads and paths, and to get the hang of it, the feel of the land. It's no use rushing to ask questions when you're ignorant …"

-E.C.R. Lorac, Fell Murder

"Far below him, the River Lune wound its serpentine curves across the wide flood plane: beneath the clear September sky the water shone blue, flowing out to Morecambe Bay, whose golden sands gleamed p…"

-E.C.R. Lorac, Fell Murder

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26. A Surprise For Christmas: And Other Seasonal Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

3.78

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Two dead bodies and a Christmas stocking weaponised. A Postman murdered delivering cards on Christm… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
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27. Who Killed Father Christmas?: And Other Seasonal Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

3.88

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The murder of Father Christmas in the grotto of London’s busiest toy shop is just one of many Yulet… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
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28. The Draycott Murder Mystery

By: Molly Thynne

3.99

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

There was something about those hands, with their strangely crisped fingers, as though they had bee… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"She's never been an atom of good to that child since the day she she was born and, in her present mood, she'd cast a blight over a Bacchanalian orgy!"

-Molly Thynne, The Draycott Murder Mystery

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29. The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - Unabridged - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the Return of Sherlock Ho

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.49

Format: 942 pages, Hardcover

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories. This edition includes the five Sherlock Holmes Collecti… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - Unabridged - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the Return of Sherlock Ho

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30. More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

By: Nick Rennison

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Sherlock Holmes remains the most famous of all fictional detectives. But he was not the only solver… read more

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  • classics
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18 must-read classics books like More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes by Nick Rennison

Transform Your Habits

Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

Georges Simenon , David Bellos

3.47

Transform Your Habits

Five Have Plenty of Fun (Famous Five, #14)

Enid Blyton

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Five Go to Mystery Moor (Famous Five, #13)

Enid Blyton

3.94

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20 best-selling fiction books like Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3) by Ann Cleeves

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Elly Griffiths

3.76

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A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, #4)

Elly Griffiths

3.92

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The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

Elly Griffiths

4.01

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Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

Ann Cleeves

3.97

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