23 best-selling mystery books like The Casebook of Jonas P. Jonas and Other Mysteries by E.X. Ferrars

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The Casebook of Jonas P. Jonas and Other Mysteries

By: E.X. Ferrars

3.96

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

E. X. Ferrars (1907-1995) was born Morna Doris MacTaggart and known as Elizabeth Ferrars in Great B…

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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

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"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 Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36) by Rex Stout, Stephen Greenleaf

2. Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36)

By: Rex Stout , Stephen Greenleaf

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It’s a wily killer who dares to strike on Nero Wolfe’s hallowed turf—and leave a corpse strangled w… read more

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3. Queen's Bureau of Investigation (Q.B.I. )

By: Ellery Queen

3.81

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

The Letters Racket--A is for Alfred, who left his poor wife ripe for a blackmailer late in her life… read more

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4. The Avenging Saint (The Saint #4)

By: Leslie Charteris

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The lovely Sonia Delmar takes a bite of chocolate - and thereby involves Simon Templar in the most … read more

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Cover of Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12) by Margery Allingham

5. Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

By: Margery Allingham

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Albert Campion returns from three years’ work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his m… read more

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6. The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ngaio Marsh's bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime… read more

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"Do you read crime fiction?"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"They do a certain amount of mischief, they're an almighty nuisance, but as murderers I've no real faith in the British anarchist."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"Nash, who carried in his head a sort of social ladder, had quietly decided that police officers of all ranks were to be graded with piano tuners."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"... In our midst—in our very midst, Matron—are secret agents, secret societies, powers of evil known to the Yard but unsuspected by the general public. Mercifully so." He stopped short, folded his ar…"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

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7. The Cask

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Paris. Shipping business, police techniques, investigative procedures, feature in this alibi puzzle… read more

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8. Enter the Saint

By: Leslie Charteris

3.37

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Simon Templar tangles with the notorious 'Snake' Ganning, tracks down a stash of stolen jewels and … read more

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9. The Saint Closes the Case

By: Leslie Charteris

3.37

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Simon Templar is the Saint--daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the la… read more

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10. The House at Satan's Elbow (Dr. Gideon Fell, #21)

By: John Dickson Carr

4.46

Format: 170 pages,

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11. Night at the Mocking Widow (Sir Henry Merrivale, #20)

By: Carter Dickson

3.44

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

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12. The Velvet Touch

By: Edward D. Hoch

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Edward D. Hoch's latest collection contains 14 stories about Nick Velvet, the choosey crook who ste… read more

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13. The Black Cat Murders (Heathcliff Lennox, #2)

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin

4.24

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Downton Abbey meets Agatha Christie with a touch of Wodehouse and a dog of distinction. Who killed … read more

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14. Midsummer Murder

By: Clifford Witting

3.86

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Witting's second Inspector Charlton mystery, first published in 1937, is set in Paulsfield (clearly… read more

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15. Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)

By: Agatha Christie

3.91

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the “suicide” that was mu… read more

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"Uncertainty creates panic."

-Agatha Christie, Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)

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16. Murder at Little Minton (Miss Busby #1)

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Miss Busby Murder at Little Minton. Book One in the Miss Busby Series. A picturesque Cotswolds v… read more

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17. Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles

By: Martin Edwards

3.91

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

‘If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a… read more

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18. Murder at Derivale

By: John Rhode

3.93

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder at Derivale, first published in 1958, is book no. 66 in the Dr. Priestley detective story se… read more

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19. The Case with Three Threads: An English Country House Murder Mystery

By: Anthony Lang

3.84

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Effortless telling of a good story’ The Observer‘Murder most ingeniously contrived’ New York Times… read more

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20. The Man Who Read Mysteries

By: William Brittain

4.23

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been worth the wait. One of the authors most requested by Crippen & Landru readers throughout … read more

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21. Tragedy at the Unicorn

By: John Rhode

4.26

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The best detective story of 1928’ Times Literary Supplement'A case of suicide, accident or murder?… read more

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Cover of Evidence of Things Seen (Henry Gamadge) by Elizabeth Daly

22. Evidence of Things Seen (Henry Gamadge)

By: Elizabeth Daly

4.02

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

In the sticky summer of 1943, a secluded cottage in the Berkshires sounds just the ticket to the ne… read more

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Cover of The Tangled Treasure Trail (Lord Edgington Investigates, #5) by Benedict Brown

23. The Tangled Treasure Trail (Lord Edgington Investigates, #5)

By: Benedict Brown

4.45

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

High-speed treasure hunts, wild parties, and a string of murders to investigate – it's just a norma… read more

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24. The Mystery of the Ashes

By: Anthony Wynne

3.68

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

The Ashes is a grand and sombre country house perched on a headland on the Northumberland coast. It… read more

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25. The Haunted Lady (Hilda Adams #4)

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

3.78

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

A dowager is being scared to death in this classic whodunit by a #1 New York Times–bestselling mast… read more

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26. Episode of the Wandering Knife

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

4.08

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Three tales from a mystery master whose “literary distinction lies in the combination of love, humo… read more

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27. 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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28. The Riddles of Hildegarde Withers: Stories (The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries)

By: Stuart Palmer

3.93

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

A sharp-witted Manhattan schoolteacher tackles eight little mysteries in this collection from the a… read more

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29. The Casebook of Jonas P. Jonas and Other Mysteries

By: E.X. Ferrars

3.96

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

E. X. Ferrars (1907-1995) was born Morna Doris MacTaggart and known as Elizabeth Ferrars in Great B… read more

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Cover of The Complete Curious Mr. Tarrant (The Lost Classics) by C. Daly King

30. The Complete Curious Mr. Tarrant (The Lost Classics)

By: C. Daly King

3.55

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Most Imaginative Detective Stories of Our Times" So wrote Ellery Queen about The Curious Mr. T… read more

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31. The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow: And Other Stories

By: Patrick Quentin

3.79

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

This Edgar Award–winning collection from the author behind the Peter Duluth novels delivers “a doze… read more

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