19 best-selling short stories books like Bibliotheca Classica (Bibliomysteries) by Simon Brett

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Bibliotheca Classica (Bibliomysteries)

By: Simon Brett

3.89

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

A rare eighteenth-century encyclopedia reveals a murderous secret in this short story by the CWA Di…

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1. My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Who can forget our beloved gentleman's personal gentleman, Jeeves, who ever comes to the rescue whe… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Come on," he said. "Bring the poker." I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it."

-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

"What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean."

-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

"I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class."

-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

"It was one of those jolly, peaceful mornings that make a chappie wish he'd got a soul or something"

-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

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2. Death of a Cad (Hamish Macbeth, #2)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.83

Format: 214 pages, Mass Market Paperback

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A CAD: A Hamish Macbeth MysteryWh… read more

Similar categories in M.C. Beaton's Death of a Cad (Hamish Macbeth, #2) book and Simon Brett's Bibliotheca Classica (Bibliomysteries)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Kissed a Sad Goodbye (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #6) by Deborah Crombie

3. Kissed a Sad Goodbye (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #6)

By: Deborah Crombie

4.05

Format: 369 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Scotland Yard's Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James face their most haunting case yet when the past deva… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"You can only do things one day at a time, sport. Sometimes life is so bloody that's the only way you can get through it. But the good bit about living one day at a time is that when nice things happe…"

-Deborah Crombie, Kissed a Sad Goodbye (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #6)

Cover of Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35) by Agatha Christie, David Suchet

4. Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35)

By: Agatha Christie , David Suchet

3.82

Format: 6 pages, Audio CD

Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the village fete hosted by Sir George and Lady Stubbs, a f… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced"

-Agatha Christie, Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35)

"I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write …"

-Agatha Christie, Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35)

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5. Pronghorns of the Third Reich

By: C.J. Box

2.78

Format: 252 pages,

In frigid Wyoming lies a mystery that stretches back to Nazi Germany Lyle and Juan wait outside the… read more

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  • mystery
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. The Killing of Polly Carter

By: Robert Thorogood

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

An original story from the creator and writer of the hit BBC One TV series, Death in Paradise, feat… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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7. A Meditation on Murder

By: Robert Thorogood

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Aslan Kennedy has an idyllic life: Leader of a Spiritual Retreat for wealthy holidaymakers on one o… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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8. Mystery, Inc.

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.91

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Have you ever wanted something so badly you would kill for it? Identified only by the hastily--and … read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's Mystery, Inc. book and Simon Brett's Bibliotheca Classica (Bibliomysteries)

  • mystery
  • short stories
  • fiction

9. Reconciliation Day

By: Christopher Fowler

3.90

Format: 448 pages,

A man obsessed with Draculapursues a legendary lost edition of the classic vampire book in this chi… read more

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10. Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.25

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

The titles of the first story in this collection—'Jeeves Takes Charge'— and the last—'Bertie Change… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Employers are like horses — they require management."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)

"You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)

"Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)

"What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?"

-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)

11. The Book of Ghosts

By: Reed Farrel Coleman

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

The lie that bought Jacob Weisen a new life cannot help him escape the past Birkenau could not kill… read more

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12. The Museum of Literary Souls

By: John Connolly

3.96

Format: None pages,

Mr. Berger has spent thirty-four years keeping his life as empty as possible. His job title as a cl… read more

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13. Death Leaves a Bookmark

By: William Link

3.84

Format: 255 pages, ebook

Attempting the perfect murder, a killer encounters the perfect cop After years of get-rich-quick sc… read more

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14. Every Seven Years

By: Denise Mina

3.00

Format: 107 pages, ebook

Elsa finds a book with strange powers and must face her tortured past. It's been seven years since … read more

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15. Big Bad

By: Chandler Baker

3.77

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

For a family trying to make an isolated farmhouse into a home, fear and rage are getting harder to … read more

Similar categories in Chandler Baker's Big Bad book and Simon Brett's Bibliotheca Classica (Bibliomysteries)

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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16. Best of Luck

By: Jason Mott

3.77

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Did you ever hear the one about the man with a string of bad luck? The worst is still to come in a … read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. In Bloom

By: Paul Tremblay

3.08

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s something in the water in this hallucinatory short story by Paul Tremblay, bestselling auth… read more

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  • mystery
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. The Mosquito

By: B.A. Paris

3.63

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

After his marriage fails, he hopes a vacation in France will relax and restore him. But fate has so… read more

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  • mystery
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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19. The Littlest Library

By: Poppy Alexander

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A heartwarming literary-themed novel about a woman who turns an ordinary red phone box into the lit… read more

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  • fiction
"There was a book to cure ever ill and solve every problem that was what Mimi had always thought. It was like a tiny sanctuary providing a balm for all of life’s challenges."

-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

"Manga is a highly respected form of storytelling. Calling it comics doesn’t do it justice. I’ll sort her out with some other graphic novels, too. It’s all stories. It all counts."

-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

"There is that poem. Scott Holland, I think. How does it go? ‘I have only slipped away into the next room’…or something. Yes. ‘I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. What…"

-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

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20. The Dark Door (Bibliomysteries)

By: Lisa Unger

3.91

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

A horror writer’s death leaves his daughter haunted by voices in this short story by the New York T… read more

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  • mystery
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. Dead Dames Don't Sing

By: John Harvey

3.48

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ex-cop Jack Kiley is bored, and his work as a PI, tailing cheating spouses and investigating insura… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • fiction
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22. The Last Honest Horse Thief

By: Michael Koryta

4.16

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

A boy comes of age among a family of grifters in this powerful story from a New York Times–bestsell… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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23. The Heart of a Mother

By: Julie Clark

3.67

Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition

A fateful decision from the past haunts a wealthy Californian. Desperate to make things right, she … read more

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  • mystery
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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24. People Like Them

By: Minka Kent

4.09

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

Nobody’s perfect—although one beautiful couple certainly comes close. Discover the cracks beneath t… read more

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  • mystery
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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25. The Honeymoon Trap (Bibliomysteries)

By: Peter Swanson

3.30

Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition

A pulp novel has a book critic wondering if his new wife is out to kill him in this thrilling story… read more

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  • mystery
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 by Lisa Unger

26. The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023

By: Lisa Unger

3.41

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bests… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 book and Simon Brett's Bibliotheca Classica (Bibliomysteries)

  • mystery
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Traitor (Bibliomysteries) by Martin Edwards

27. The Traitor (Bibliomysteries)

By: Martin Edwards

3.86

Format: 70 pages, Kindle Edition

Book collecting seems a rather harmless hobby—unless it's someone like Felix de Lisle doing the col… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
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28. The Hemingway Valise

By: Robert Olen Butler

3.79

Format: 57 pages, Kindle Edition

An American spy in Paris solves a legendary mystery as the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “thrilli… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Girl Who Did Say No (Bibliomysteries) by David Handler

29. The Girl Who Did Say No (Bibliomysteries)

By: David Handler

3.78

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

Ex-bestselling author Stewart Hoag is after a tell-all Hollywood diary in this short mystery from t… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Bibliotheca Classica (Bibliomysteries) by Simon Brett

30. Bibliotheca Classica (Bibliomysteries)

By: Simon Brett

3.89

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

A rare eighteenth-century encyclopedia reveals a murderous secret in this short story by the CWA Di… read more

Similar categories in Simon Brett's Bibliotheca Classica (Bibliomysteries) book and Simon Brett's Bibliotheca Classica (Bibliomysteries)

  • mystery
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Great Hippopotamus Hotel (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #25) by Alexander McCall Smith

31. The Great Hippopotamus Hotel (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #25)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Precious Ramotswe takes on an interesting but sensitive case and learns valuable lessons along the … read more

Similar categories in Alexander McCall Smith's The Great Hippopotamus Hotel (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #25) book and Simon Brett's Bibliotheca Classica (Bibliomysteries)

  • mystery
  • fiction

25 Top fiction books like Bibliotheca Classica (Bibliomysteries) by Simon Brett

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P.G. Wodehouse

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M.C. Beaton

3.83

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Kissed a Sad Goodbye (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #6)

Deborah Crombie

4.05

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3.82

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The Monogram Murders

Agatha Christie , Sophie Hannah

3.13

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Agatha Christie , Sophie Hannah

3.60

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Agatha Christie , Charles Osborne

3.92

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