13 best-selling classics books like The Melody of Death by Edgar Wallace

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The Melody of Death

By: Edgar Wallace

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

The Melody of Death' is a novel about a young man who starts behaving strangely upon hearing a cert…

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Cover of Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11) by Agatha Christie

1. Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)

By: Agatha Christie

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Who wouldn't be pleased to attend a small dinner party being held by Sir Charles Cartwright, once t… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
"There is only one thing to do - think."

-Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)

"Charles doesn’t go out of a room—he ‘makes an exit’—"

-Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)

"One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late."

-Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)

"It's the Only Thing To Do," he said, obviously speaking in capital letters."

-Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)

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2. Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury

4.02

Format: 1017 pages, Paperback

The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"

-Charles Dickens, Bleak House

"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."

-Charles Dickens, Bleak House

"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"

-Charles Dickens, Bleak House

"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."

-Charles Dickens, Bleak House

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3. Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

4.09

Format: 801 pages, Paperback

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more

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  • classics
"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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4. The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin (Maigret #10)

By: Georges Simenon , Siân Reynolds

3.72

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

The city of Simenon's youth comes to life in this new translation of this disturbing novel set in L… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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5. Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)

By: Agatha Christie

3.96

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passeneger plane... F… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
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6. Endless Night

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

Strapped by a chauffeur's wages, Michael Rogers' want of a better life seems out of reach. Especial… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
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7. Tortilla Flat

By: John Steinbeck

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a ge… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Lay Her Among the Lilies (Vintage Harlequin, #135) by James Hadley Chase

8. Lay Her Among the Lilies (Vintage Harlequin, #135)

By: James Hadley Chase

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It was odd that a healthy young heiress like Janet Crosby should die of heart failure. Odder still … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, Mark Wormald

9. The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens , Mark Wormald

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers--a comic masterpiec… read more

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  • classics
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10. You Never Know with Women

By: James Hadley Chase

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Veda Rux, a beautiful blonde, known professionally as a stripper, steals a priceless Cellini dagger… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

11. A Crime in Holland (Maigret #8)

By: Georges Simenon , Siân Reynolds

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

'Just take a look,' Duclos said in an undertone, pointing to the scene all round them, the picture-… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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12. Do Me A Favour -Drop Dead

By: James Hadley Chase

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

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  • crime
Cover of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Patricia Ingham

13. Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more

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  • classics
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14. The Red Thumb Mark

By: R. Austin Freeman

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the … read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
Cover of The Night at the Crossroads (Maigret #7) by Georges Simenon, Linda Coverdale

15. The Night at the Crossroads (Maigret #7)

By: Georges Simenon , Linda Coverdale

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Georges Simenon's riveting tale of deception in an isolated community, part of Penguin's series of … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Yellow Dog (Maigret #6) by Georges Simenon, Linda Asher

16. The Yellow Dog (Maigret #6)

By: Georges Simenon , Linda Asher

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town sus… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
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17. Mission to Venice

By: James Hadley Chase

4.10

Format: None pages,

Sudden death lurks along the canals of Venice. That's what Don Micklem, millionaire American playbo… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Late Monsieur Gallet (Maigret, #3) by Georges Simenon, Anthea Bell

18. The Late Monsieur Gallet (Maigret, #3)

By: Georges Simenon , Anthea Bell

3.32

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A devastating tale of misfortune, betrayal, and the weakness of family ties, newly translated for t… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, China Miéville, S.T. Joshi

19. At the Mountains of Madness

By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more

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  • classics

20. Night of the Living Dummy (Goosebumps, #7)

By: R.L. Stine

3.80

Format: 25 pages,

When twins Lindy and Kris find a ventriloquist's dummy in a Dumpster, Lindy decides to "rescue" it,… read more

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21. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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  • classics
"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

22. The World in my Pocket

By: James Hadley Chase

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Paperback

This is the job they have all been waiting for. The job that will set them up for life. A million d… read more

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23. Maigret's Holiday

By: Georges Simenon

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Alors que le couple Maigret se repose quelques jours aux Sables-d'Olonne, Mme Maigret est victime d… read more

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24. Trent's Last Case (Philip Trent, #1)

By: E.C. Bentley

4.37

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

On Wall Street, the mere mention of the name Sigsbee Manderson is enough to send a stock soaring--o… read more

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25. I Would Rather Stay Poor

By: James Hadley Chase

3.46

Format: 192 pages,

Like most bank managers, Dave Calvin had acquired an irresistible charm that he could switch on whe… read more

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26. The Cherry Orchard

By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more

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27. Dombey and Son

By: Jonathan Lethem , Charles Dickens

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens's story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family trigg… read more

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28. Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)

By: Agatha Christie

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now th… read more

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Cover of Sheets (Sheets, #1) by Brenna Thummler

29. Sheets (Sheets, #1)

By: Brenna Thummler

3.84

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A practical thirteen year old in charge of the family laundry bu… read more

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"patience is the thread of healing."

-Brenna Thummler, Sheets (Sheets, #1)

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30. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

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"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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31. The Melody of Death

By: Edgar Wallace

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

The Melody of Death' is a novel about a young man who starts behaving strangely upon hearing a cert… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime

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4.02

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3.72

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3.76

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