15 Top mystery books like Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet by Harry Kemelman

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Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet

By: Harry Kemelman

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

A member of Rabbi Small's congregation dies a mysterious death during the worst hurricane Barnard's…

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Cover of A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee #13) by John D. MacDonald, Carl Hiaasen

1. A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee #13)

By: John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen

4.07

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Being accused at gunpoint of hiding another man's wife is a rude shock. But it's an even bigger sho… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Jolie Blon's Bounce (Dave Robicheaux, #12) by James Lee Burke

2. Jolie Blon's Bounce (Dave Robicheaux, #12)

By: James Lee Burke

4.18

Format: 480 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Barnes & Noble Review James Lee Burke's fiction is haunted, sometimes quite literally, by the … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record."

-James Lee Burke, Jolie Blon's Bounce (Dave Robicheaux, #12)

"...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven."

-James Lee Burke, Jolie Blon's Bounce (Dave Robicheaux, #12)

"But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a dail…"

-James Lee Burke, Jolie Blon's Bounce (Dave Robicheaux, #12)

"This was not an ordinary AA group. The failed, the aberrant, the doubly addicted, and the totally brain-fried whose neurosis didn't even have a name found their way to the Work the Steps or Die, Moth…"

-James Lee Burke, Jolie Blon's Bounce (Dave Robicheaux, #12)

Cover of Naked Once More (Jacqueline Kirby, #4) by Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Mertz

3. Naked Once More (Jacqueline Kirby, #4)

By: Elizabeth Peters , Barbara Mertz

3.91

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

She may be a bestselling author, but ex-librarian Jacqueline Kirby's views on the publishing biz ar… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

4.88

Format: 242 pages, ebook

Previously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates. An Italian count telephones his do… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet

By: Harry Kemelman

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

A member of Rabbi Small's congregation dies a mysterious death during the worst hurricane Barnard's… read more

Similar categories in Harry Kemelman's Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet book and Harry Kemelman's Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet

  • jewish
  • judaism
  • religion
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • judaica
  • audiobook
Cover of Last Car to Elysian Fields (Dave Robicheaux, #13) by James Lee Burke

6. Last Car to Elysian Fields (Dave Robicheaux, #13)

By: James Lee Burke

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

'A lyrical and lovely novel that takes Burke back to the top of the crimewriting tree where he rich… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Pucelle Connection (Genevieve Lenard, #6)

By: Estelle Ryan

3.50

Format: 93 pages,

Mediaeval books. Murdered priests. Bioweapons. Renowned nonverbal communications expert Doctor Gen… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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8. The Moving Target

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshi… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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9. For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs

By: Robert A. Heinlein , Spider Robinson , None

4.27

Format: 67 pages, Hardcover

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  • fiction
  • audiobook

10. Purple Cane Road (Dave Robicheaux, #11)

By: James Lee Burke

3.38

Format: None pages,

James Lee Burke ist "der Superstar der amerikanischen Kriminalliteratur!" Buchmarkt Im Staatsgefang… read more

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11. The Lady Chapel (Owen Archer, #2)

By: Candace Robb

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Owen Archer, the intriguing Welsh archer-turned-sleuth, is back-in another riveting challenge to El… read more

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12. Talking God (Leaphorn & Chee, #9)

By: Tony Hillerman

4.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

A grave robber and a corpse reunite Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee. As … read more

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13. The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee #17)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.56

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

"The professional's professional of suspense writers." THE NEW YORK TIMES Van Harder, once a hard d… read more

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14. The Man Called Noon

By: Louis L'Amour

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his memory. All he knew for certain was that someone wanted … read more

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15. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #1)

By: Dorothy Gilman

4.16

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"there was no safety anywhere in life, except as illusion"

-Dorothy Gilman, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #1)

"But that is precisely what life is, wouldn’t you agree? Everything is a matter of choice, and when we choose are we not gambling on the unknown and its being a wise choice? And isn’t it free choice t…"

-Dorothy Gilman, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #1)

16. The Girl Next Door

By: Ruth Rendell

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this psychologically explosive story from "one of the most remarkable novelists of her generatio… read more

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17. The Apothecary Rose (Owen Archer, #1)

By: Candace Robb

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Once the king's captain of archers, now he must penetrate a poisoner's secrets... Christmastide, 13… read more

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18. The Turquoise Lament (Travis McGee #15)

By: John D. MacDonald

4.03

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

"One of the most enduring and unusual heroes in detective fiction."THE BALTIMORE SUN Now that Linda… read more

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19. Crimson Joy (Spenser, #15)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.50

Format: 168 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him. But when the killer leave… read more

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20. Colonel Sun (James Bond, #15)

By: Kingsley Amis , Robert Markham

3.57

Format: None pages, Audiobook

An awe inspiring and suspense filled book! read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook

21. The Fallen Man (Leaphorn & Chee, #12)

By: Tony Hillerman

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Human bones lie on a ledge under the peak of Ship Rock mountain, the remains of a murder victim und… read more

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22. The Seventh Sinner (Jacqueline Kirby, #1)

By: Elizabeth Peters

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

At first, Jean Suttman thought she had died and gone to Heaven when she was granted the opportunity… read more

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23. 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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24. Hand in Glove (Roderick Alleyn, #22)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages,

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25. License Renewed (John Gardner's Bond, #1)

By: John Gardner

3.52

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

In License Renewed, the most famous secret agent in the world pits his nerve and cunning against a … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

26. Jimmy The Kid (Dortmunder, #3)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here's the five-member Dortmunder Gang trying to achieve the perfect crime by following a paperback… read more

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27. A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

By: Ellis Peters

4.07

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Peters has gained worldwide praise for her meticulous re-creations of 12th-century monastic life. H… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity."

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

"If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to r…"

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

"And who knows, thought Cadfael, which is in the right, the young man who sees the best in all, and trusts all, or the old one who suspects all until he has probed them through and through? The one ma…"

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

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28. Land of Wolves (Walt Longmire, #15)

By: Craig Johnson

4.33

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.Attempting to r… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News

By: Peter Enns

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal P… read more

Similar categories in Peter Enns's How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News book and Harry Kemelman's Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet

  • religion
  • audiobook
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30. The Burnside Series #1-3

By: David Chill

4.39

Format: 794 pages, Kindle Edition

PRIVATE EYE WRITERS OF AMERICA AWARD FINALIST! The First 3 Novels In The Burnside Mystery Series (B… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Hot to Trot (Agatha Raisin, #31) by M.C. Beaton

31. Hot to Trot (Agatha Raisin, #31)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When Private Investigator Agatha Raisin learns that her friend and one-time lover Charles Fraith is… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook

16 best-selling fiction books like Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet by Harry Kemelman

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John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen

4.07

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Jolie Blon's Bounce (Dave Robicheaux, #12)

James Lee Burke

4.18

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Naked Once More (Jacqueline Kirby, #4)

Elizabeth Peters , Barbara Mertz

3.91

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The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman: A Short Story

Agatha Christie

4.88

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The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)

John D. MacDonald

4.25

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A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee #13)

John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen

4.07

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John Sandford

4.18

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John D. MacDonald

3.66

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