8 Top crime books like The Mystery That Never Was by Enid Blyton

Cover of The Mystery That Never Was by Enid Blyton

The Mystery That Never Was

By: Enid Blyton

3.75

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Nick and Katie and their neighbours, Mike and Penny, are enjoying the end of the summer holidays. W…

If you liked the crime plot in The Mystery That Never Was by Enid Blyton , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

1. George's Marvellous Medicine

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered… read more

Similar categories in Roald Dahl's George's Marvellous Medicine book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6) by Agatha Christie

2. They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A man is shot at in a juvenile reform home – but someone else dies… Miss Marple senses danger wh… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6) book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
"His eyes now were bright and beady with pleasurable anticipation."

-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)

"Into the Gothic gloom of the library, Gina brought an exotic glow."

-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)

"Her eyes were shining, and her long thin mouth was curved in a triumphant smile."

-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)

"Toată lumea se așteaptă ca educația să fie un drept fundamental și nu pun mare preț pe ea când o primesc!"

-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)

Cover of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

3. James and the Giant Peach

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that loo… read more

Similar categories in Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
"I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans."

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"- ¡Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Preg…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

Cover of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #1) by Louise Rennison

4. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #1)

By: Louise Rennison

3.76

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

There are six things very wrong with my life: 1. I have one of those under-the-skin spots that wil… read more

Similar categories in Louise Rennison's Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #1) book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • childrens
  • fiction
"Nunga nungas!"

-Louise Rennison, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #1)

"How do you make yourself not like someone?"

-Louise Rennison, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #1)

"Watching TV Mum said, 'Do you miss your dad?' and I said, 'Who?"

-Louise Rennison, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #1)

"I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson"

-Louise Rennison, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #1)

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5. Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #39)

By: Agatha Christie

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughte… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #39) book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie, Charles Osborne

6. The Unexpected Guest

By: Agatha Christie , Charles Osborne

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog near the South Wales coast, and makes his wa… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's The Unexpected Guest book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Death in Brittany (Commissaire Dupin #1) by Jean-Luc Bannalec

7. Death in Brittany (Commissaire Dupin #1)

By: Jean-Luc Bannalec

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

At the Central Hotel in Pont-Aven, Brittany, ninety-one-year-old manager Pierre-Louis Pennec is fou… read more

Similar categories in Jean-Luc Bannalec's Death in Brittany (Commissaire Dupin #1) book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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8. Return to Groosham Grange

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Someone is trying to destroy David Eliot's school. A year ago, he'd have been happy to see the end … read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's Return to Groosham Grange book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
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9. Cosmos

By: Carl Sagan

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousn… read more

Similar categories in Carl Sagan's Cosmos book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

10. My Heart and Other Black Holes

By: Jasmine Warga

3.78

Format: 472 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can … read more

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Cover of 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7) by Agatha Christie

11. 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

By: Agatha Christie

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For an instant the two trains ran together, going in the same direction side by side. In that froze… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7) book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Don’t go,"

-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

"I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject."

-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

"Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them."

-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

Cover of The Turnglass by Gareth Rubin

12. The Turnglass

By: Gareth Rubin

3.50

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

1880s England On the bleak island of Ray, off the Essex coast, an idealistic young doctor, Simeon … read more

Similar categories in Gareth Rubin's The Turnglass book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"These tales are intertwined and parasitic. Beguiling and, I think, a little strange too."

-Gareth Rubin, The Turnglass

"It was the wrong house for the Tooke family. It was see-through, allowing everyone to look in, while the people who lived there did their best to hide their lives away."

-Gareth Rubin, The Turnglass

Cover of This Time It's Real by Ann Liang

13. This Time It's Real

By: Ann Liang

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin’s essay about meeting the love of her life unexpectedly goes vira… read more

Similar categories in Ann Liang's This Time It's Real book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • fiction
"We weren’t flirting,"

-Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

"I want this to be real."

-Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

"I'm not going anywhere. I promise."

-Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

"I hope you remember to miss me when all this is over"

-Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

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14. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

By: Bridget Collins

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • fiction
Cover of The Foundling by Stacey Halls

15. The Foundling

By: Stacey Halls

3.99

Format: 400 pages, ebook

London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hosp… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Foundling book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Waarom moesten we de kaarten die ons waren toebedeeld, klakkeloos accepteren?"

-Stacey Halls, The Foundling

"Mijn wereld was gekrompen tot de grootte van een walnoot. En toen was Daniel naar een van tante Cassandra's feestjes gekomen en had hij de noot gekraakt."

-Stacey Halls, The Foundling

Cover of Murder Most Royal (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #3) by S.J.  Bennett

16. Murder Most Royal (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #3)

By: S.J. Bennett

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Christmas at Sandringham is going to be murder . . . December 2016 - A severed hand is found was… read more

Similar categories in S.J. Bennett's Murder Most Royal (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #3) book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
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17. Grandmothers

By: Salley Vickers

3.69

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger gen… read more

Similar categories in Salley Vickers's Grandmothers book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of I'm a Nurse: Warum ich meinen Beruf als Krankenschwester liebe – trotz allem by Franziska Böhler

18. I'm a Nurse: Warum ich meinen Beruf als Krankenschwester liebe – trotz allem

By: Franziska Böhler

4.44

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Franziska Böhler, Krankenschwester aus Überzeugung, schildert in bewegenden Fallgeschichten den Sta… read more

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19. The Mystery That Never Was

By: Enid Blyton

3.75

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Nick and Katie and their neighbours, Mike and Penny, are enjoying the end of the summer holidays. W… read more

Similar categories in Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was book and Enid Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was

  • childrens
  • british literature
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

17 must-read fiction books like The Mystery That Never Was by Enid Blyton

Transform Your Habits

George's Marvellous Medicine

Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Transform Your Habits

They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)

Agatha Christie

3.78

Transform Your Habits

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #1)

Louise Rennison

3.76

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8 Best fiction books like They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6) by Agatha Christie

Transform Your Habits

They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)

Agatha Christie

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Unfinished Portrait

Agatha Christie , Mary Westmacott

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Unexpected Guest

Agatha Christie , Charles Osborne

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Monogram Murders

Agatha Christie , Sophie Hannah

3.13

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