16 best-selling mystery books like Kiss and Kill by Ellery Queen

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Kiss and Kill

By: Ellery Queen

3.44

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

When his wife disappears without a trace, a desperate man turns to Chicago’s toughest PI for help i…

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Cover of The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6) by Raymond Chandler

1. The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.19

Format: 379 pages, Paperback

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"To say goodbye is to die a little."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I'm killing time and it's dying hard."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

Cover of The Dame (Alan Grofield, #2) by Richard Stark

2. The Dame (Alan Grofield, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.68

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wro… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Dame (Alan Grofield, #2) book and Ellery Queen's Kiss and Kill

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1) by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli

3. The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)

By: Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime se… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"In grammar school he’d had an old priest as his religion teacher. “Truth is light,"

-Andrea Camilleri, The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)

"«Questo sta a lei scoprirlo, se ne ha voglia. Oppure può fermarsi alla forma che hanno fatto prendere all'acqua». «Non ho capito, mi scusi». «Io non sono siciliana, sono nata a Grosseto, sono venuta …"

-Andrea Camilleri, The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)

Cover of Una lama di luce (Commissario Montalbano, #19) by Andrea Camilleri

4. Una lama di luce (Commissario Montalbano, #19)

By: Andrea Camilleri

3.97

Format: 570 pages, Paperback

A Lampedusa sono sbarcati migliaia di tunisini e il ministro degli Interni che ha deciso di fare un… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Camilleri's Una lama di luce (Commissario Montalbano, #19) book and Ellery Queen's Kiss and Kill

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Broken Vase by Rex Stout

5. The Broken Vase

By: Rex Stout

3.72

Format: None pages,

When Private Detective 'Tex' Fox helps to buy an antique violin for the young prodigy, Jan Tusar, h… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Plot it Yourself (Nero Wolfe, #32) by Rex Stout

6. Plot it Yourself (Nero Wolfe, #32)

By: Rex Stout

4.31

Format: None pages,

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Tragedy of X by Ellery Queen, Barnaby Ross

7. The Tragedy of X

By: Ellery Queen , Barnaby Ross

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

New York City, the early 30's. A man is poisoned on a crowded streetcar during rush hour. Everyone … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

8. Shills Can't Cash Chips

By: Erle Stanley Gardner , A.A. Fair

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Long Time No See (87th Precinct, #32) by Ed McBain

9. Long Time No See (87th Precinct, #32)

By: Ed McBain

3.20

Format: 168 pages,

Jimmy Harris lost his eyesight in Vietnam. But it was on a cold city street that he lost his life. … read more

Similar categories in Ed McBain's Long Time No See (87th Precinct, #32) book and Ellery Queen's Kiss and Kill

  • mystery
  • fiction

10. Split Image (Jesse Stone, #9)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Family ties prove deadly in the brilliant new Jesse Stone novel from New York Times-bestselling aut… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Three Men Out (Nero Wolfe, #23) by Rex Stout, Linda Ellerbee

11. Three Men Out (Nero Wolfe, #23)

By: Rex Stout , Linda Ellerbee

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

A trio of mystery cases not to be missed by Nero Wolfe fans. In the first, questions about a poison… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

12. The Hand in the Glove

By: Rex Stout

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Wealthy industrialist P. L. Storrs has never approved of lady detectives, and he normally would not… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

13. Passenger to Frankfurt

By: Agatha Christie

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a bored diplomat is approached in a bleak airport by a woman whose life is in danger, his inte… read more

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14. God Save the Mark

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

* mark n. An easy victim; a ready subject for the practices of a confidence man, thief, beggar, etc… read more

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15. The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano, #2)

By: Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The Terra-Cotta Dogopens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned … read more

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16. The Case of the Troubled Trustee

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.94

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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Cover of Riccardino (Inspector Montalbano, #28) by Andrea Camilleri

17. Riccardino (Inspector Montalbano, #28)

By: Andrea Camilleri

3.77

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Anno 2005: Camilleri ha appena pubblicato La luna di carta. Sta lavorando alla successiva avventura… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner

18. The Count of 9

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.99

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

From the world-famous creator of "Perry Mason," Erle Stanley Gardner comes another baffling case fo… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Missing Heiress (Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries #17) by Robert Goldsborough

19. The Missing Heiress (Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries #17)

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.05

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

The daughter of a steel magnate disappears, and Nero and Archie must forge ahead with an investigat… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's The Missing Heiress (Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries #17) book and Ellery Queen's Kiss and Kill

  • mystery
Cover of The Book of Extraordinary Amateur Sleuth and Private Eye Stories by Maxim Jakubowski

20. The Book of Extraordinary Amateur Sleuth and Private Eye Stories

By: Maxim Jakubowski

3.67

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

A Cornucopia of the Best New MysteriesIf you're a fan of The Best American Mystery Stories series, … read more

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Cover of Kiss and Kill by Ellery Queen

21. Kiss and Kill

By: Ellery Queen

3.44

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

When his wife disappears without a trace, a desperate man turns to Chicago’s toughest PI for help i… read more

Similar categories in Ellery Queen's Kiss and Kill book and Ellery Queen's Kiss and Kill

  • mystery
  • fiction

15 Best fiction books like Kiss and Kill by Ellery Queen

Transform Your Habits

The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

Raymond Chandler

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Dame (Alan Grofield, #2)

Richard Stark

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)

Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli

3.75

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Una lama di luce (Commissario Montalbano, #19)

Andrea Camilleri

3.97

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22 Best fiction books like Riccardino (Inspector Montalbano, #28) by Andrea Camilleri

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Era di maggio

Antonio Manzini

4.05

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Non è stagione

Antonio Manzini

4.05

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L'estate fredda (Pietro Fenoglio, #2)

Gianrico Carofiglio

3.99

Transform Your Habits

ELP

Antonio Manzini

4.12

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