15 best-selling mystery books like The Tragedy of Errors and Others by Ellery Queen

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The Tragedy of Errors and Others

By: Ellery Queen

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

“ELLERY QUEEN IS THE AMERICAN DETECTIVE STORY” So wrote the great critic Anthony Boucher about the …

If you liked the mystery plot in The Tragedy of Errors and Others by Ellery Queen , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Death Times Three (Nero Wolfe, #47) by Rex Stout

1. Death Times Three (Nero Wolfe, #47)

By: Rex Stout

4.07

Format: 214 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This collection showcases Nero Wolfe’s uncanny crime-solving ability—as well as his incredible appe… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
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2. The Man in the Brown Suit

By: Agatha Christie

3.95

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her—a… read more

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  • mystery
"A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"You know I want you. You know that I’d give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away from the world, forever and ever."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"But his face should really inspire you with confidence, my dear lady. No self-respecting murderer would ever consent to look like one. Crippen now, I believe was one of the pleasantest fellows imagin…"

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

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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
"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. The Bloodied Ivy

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin go back to college to investigate a campus death in this first paperb… read more

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  • mystery
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5. Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.84

Format: 212 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for … read more

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  • mystery
"But if you were investigating a crime,"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"Well, it’s no good jumping at conclusions."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"Oh damn!' said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"I trust you told her I had succumbed to lethargic encephalitis suddenly, no flowers by request."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

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6. Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.07

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs o… read more

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  • mystery
"It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowad…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is run. Look at electricity, Look at water-power. Look at the tides. Look at the sun. Millions of power …"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

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7. Silver Spire

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

For the sixth time Robert Goldsborough invites us into Nero Wolfe's West Thirty-fifth Street browns… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Three Witnesses (Nero Wolfe, #26) by Rex Stout, Susan Conant

8. Three Witnesses (Nero Wolfe, #26)

By: Rex Stout , Susan Conant

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

In three cases--a millionaire who writes his own death warrant, a dog who becomes a killer's worst … read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
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9. Trio for Blunt Instruments (Nero Wolfe, #39)

By: Rex Stout

3.47

Format: 185 pages,

read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories

10. The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)

By: Agatha Christie

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A mysterious woman, a legendary cursed jewel, and a night train to the Mediterranean -- ingredients… read more

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Cover of Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4) by Dorothy L. Sayers

11. Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this delightful collection of Wimsey exploits, Dorothy L. Sayers reveals a gruesome, grotesque b… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
"I has such a sinking in my inside I has to get up and eat biscuits."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)

"And upon his return, Gherkins, who had always considered his uncle as a very top-hatted sort of person, actually saw him take from his handkerchief-drawer an undeniable automatic pistol. It was at th…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)

Cover of Trouble at the Brownstone (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #16) by Robert Goldsborough

12. Trouble at the Brownstone (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #16)

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.13

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Archie Goodwin goes undercover on the waterfront in a new mystery by the author who “does a masterl… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's Trouble at the Brownstone (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #16) book and Ellery Queen's The Tragedy of Errors and Others

  • mystery
Cover of Death of an Art Collector (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #14) by Robert Goldsborough

13. Death of an Art Collector (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #14)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.75

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

An art hoarder’s suspicious death paints a nasty picture for Nero Wolfe. No matter how fabulously h… read more

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  • mystery
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14. Stop the Presses! (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #11)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.82

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are tasked with protecting the most hated columnist in New York City … read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Archie Goodwin's Office: Nero Wolfe Speaking by Sandy Lerner

15. Archie Goodwin's Office: Nero Wolfe Speaking

By: Sandy Lerner

3.59

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1978. Nero Wolfe, New York's 300-pound, epicurean genius detective has been dead for two years… read more

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16. The Killer Everyone Knew and Other Captain Leopold Stories

By: Edward D. Hoch

4.75

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

In our nearly thirty years of publishing the best of Ed Hoch's short stories, we've neglected Capta… read more

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17. Challenge the Impossible

By: Edward D. Hoch

4.21

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

We ve saved the best for last! Follow Dr. Sam Hawthorne through the war years, a time that he calle… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
Cover of The Tragedy of Errors and Others by Ellery Queen

18. The Tragedy of Errors and Others

By: Ellery Queen

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

“ELLERY QUEEN IS THE AMERICAN DETECTIVE STORY” So wrote the great critic Anthony Boucher about the … read more

Similar categories in Ellery Queen's The Tragedy of Errors and Others book and Ellery Queen's The Tragedy of Errors and Others

  • mystery
  • short stories

6 best-selling short stories books like The Tragedy of Errors and Others by Ellery Queen

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Rex Stout

4.07

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Three Witnesses (Nero Wolfe, #26)

Rex Stout , Susan Conant

3.47

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Trio for Blunt Instruments (Nero Wolfe, #39)

Rex Stout

3.47

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Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)

Dorothy L. Sayers

4.14

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The Final Deduction (Nero Wolfe, #35)

Rex Stout

4.19

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Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36)

Rex Stout , Stephen Greenleaf

4.23

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Death Times Three (Nero Wolfe, #47)

Rex Stout

4.07

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4.08

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