5 Top mystery books like The Almost Perfect Murder by Hulbert Footner

The Almost Perfect Murder

By: Hulbert Footner

3.42

Format: 280 pages, Nook

A collection of short mysteries by Footner.

If you liked the mystery plot in The Almost Perfect Murder by Hulbert Footner , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1) by Rex Stout, Loren D. Estleman

1. Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

By: Rex Stout , Loren D. Estleman

3.97

Format: 285 pages, Mass Market Paperback

As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man.… read more

Similar categories in Rex Stout's Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1) book and Hulbert Footner's The Almost Perfect Murder

  • mystery
  • classics
"You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment"

-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

"[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant."

-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

"...it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the opportunities for snobbery."

-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

"To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices."

-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

Cover of The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler

2. The Simple Art of Murder

By: Raymond Chandler

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Contains Chandler's essay on the art of detective stories and a collection of 8 classic Chandler my… read more

Similar categories in Raymond Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder book and Hulbert Footner's The Almost Perfect Murder

  • mystery
  • short stories
"Racket beer, sonny,"

-Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder

"You know who they are?"

-Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder

"Her voice was as dead as the summer before last. (Nevada Gas)"

-Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder

"If he is a man on honor in one thing, he is that in all things."

-Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder

Cover of Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4) by None, P.D. James

3. Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)

By: None , P.D. James

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Hailed as “mystery at its best” by The New York Times, Shroud for a Nightingale is the fourth book … read more

Similar categories in None's Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4) book and Hulbert Footner's The Almost Perfect Murder

  • mystery
"You feel sexy" Dalgliesh gave the question serious attention. "No. I'm too old to feel sexy when I'm cold and tired. At my age you need the creature comforts if you're to perform with any pleasure to…"

-None, Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)

"He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Wor…"

-None, Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)

Cover of Mr. Zero by Patricia Wentworth

4. Mr. Zero

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

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  • mystery

5. The Blind Side (Ernest Lamb #1)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.31

Format: 517 pages,

Ross Craddock was just the type to be murdered. The new landlord of Craddock house, he begins by gi… read more

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6. In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (Inspector Lynley, #10)

By: Elizabeth George

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A theatrical producer shoots himself on the night of his greatest triumph. A young woman camping on… read more

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7. Different Seasons

By: Stephen King

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound t… read more

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8. Stillness Is the Key

By: Ryan Holiday

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdo… read more

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"Build a life you don't need to escape from."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

"Routine, done for long enough and done sincerely enough, becomes more than routine. It becomes ritual—it becomes sanctified and holy."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

"If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

"Put yourself in tough situations. Accept challenges. Familiarize yourself with the unfamiliar. That's how you widen your perspective and your understanding."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

9. The Almost Perfect Murder

By: Hulbert Footner

3.42

Format: 280 pages, Nook

A collection of short mysteries by Footner. read more

Similar categories in Hulbert Footner's The Almost Perfect Murder book and Hulbert Footner's The Almost Perfect Murder

  • mystery
  • classics
  • short stories

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