12 Best mystery books like The Case of the Angry Mourner by Erle Stanley Gardner

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The Case of the Angry Mourner

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When notorious playboy Arthur Cushing is murdered, Belle Adrian suspects that her daughter, Carlott…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Case of the Angry Mourner by Erle Stanley Gardner , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Field of Blood (Paddy Meehan, #1) by Denise Mina

1. Field of Blood (Paddy Meehan, #1)

By: Denise Mina

3.82

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Set in Glasgow in 1981, a time of hunger strikes, riots and unemployment that decimated the old ind… read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Field of Blood (Paddy Meehan, #1) book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Ah, the meek. Playing the long game. Sneaky bastards."

-Denise Mina, Field of Blood (Paddy Meehan, #1)

"The policemen had clearly been there all morning: four big white tea mugs from the canteen were drained and drip-stained, red-and-gold wrappers from caramel log biscuits were folded into interesting …"

-Denise Mina, Field of Blood (Paddy Meehan, #1)

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2. The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)

By: Colin Dexter

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Dead of Jericho is Colin Dexter's fifth outing featuring the popular detective, Inspector Morse… read more

Similar categories in Colin Dexter's The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5) book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"He sighed and knew that life was full of ‘if only’ for everyone"

-Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)

"Walters looked quizzically at Morse, who sat reading one of the glossy 'porno' magazines he had brought from upstairs. "You still sex-mad, I see, Morse," said the surgeon. "I don't seem to be able to…"

-Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)

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3. Murder in E Minor

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a maestro is murdered, Archie is flabbergasted when the gargantuan gourmet detective lifts him… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's Murder in E Minor book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder in the Ball Park (Nero Wolfe Novels by Robert Goldsborough #9) by Robert Goldsborough

4. Murder in the Ball Park (Nero Wolfe Novels by Robert Goldsborough #9)

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Wolfe earns a big league call-up after a senator gets taken out at the ball game Archie Goodwin and… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's Murder in the Ball Park (Nero Wolfe Novels by Robert Goldsborough #9) book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction

5. Shills Can't Cash Chips

By: Erle Stanley Gardner , A.A. Fair

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's Shills Can't Cash Chips book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Case of the Angry Mourner by Erle Stanley Gardner

6. The Case of the Angry Mourner

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When notorious playboy Arthur Cushing is murdered, Belle Adrian suspects that her daughter, Carlott… read more

Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

  • detective
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Some Buried Caesar (Nero Wolfe, #6) by Rex Stout, Diane Mott Davidson

7. Some Buried Caesar (Nero Wolfe, #6)

By: Rex Stout , Diane Mott Davidson

3.47

Format: 185 pages,

Will a championship bull be served as barbecue or preserved for its lineage? Before this can be res… read more

Similar categories in Rex Stout's Some Buried Caesar (Nero Wolfe, #6) book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Trio for Blunt Instruments (Nero Wolfe, #39) by Rex Stout

8. Trio for Blunt Instruments (Nero Wolfe, #39)

By: Rex Stout

3.47

Format: 185 pages,

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Similar categories in Rex Stout's Trio for Blunt Instruments (Nero Wolfe, #39) book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction

9. Fear of the Dark (Fearless Jones, #3)

By: Walter Mosley

4.30

Format: 543 pages,

When his cousin Ulysses S. Grant IV comes knocking, Paris Minton would rather keep the door shut, b… read more

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's Fear of the Dark (Fearless Jones, #3) book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

10. Gambit (Nero Wolfe, #37)

By: Rex Stout , Michael Prichard

3.48

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Miss Sarah Blount, better known as Sally, has come to Wolfe to plead for his help with her father's… read more

Similar categories in Rex Stout's Gambit (Nero Wolfe, #37) book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

11. Double or Quits

By: Erle Stanley Gardner , A.A. Fair

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

While tracking down jewels stolen from a prominent doctor's safe, Donald Lam and Bertha Cool encoun… read more

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12. Black Orchids (Nero Wolfe, #9)

By: Lawrence Block , Rex Stout

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Not much can get Wolfe to leave his comfortable brownstone, but the showing of a rare black orchid … read more

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13. Double Jeopardy (Tweed & Co. #1)

By: Colin Forbes

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

A British secret agent is found murdered on Lake Konstanz in Bavaria, with a neo-Nazi sign carved o… read more

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14. The Bigger They Come

By: Erle Stanley Gardner , A.A. Fair

4.16

Format: None pages,

They are an unlikely pairing of detectives: Bertha Cool, in her sixties, is rolling in pounds and p… read more

Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's The Bigger They Come book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

Cover of Bats Fly at Dusk by A.A. Fair

15. Bats Fly at Dusk

By: A.A. Fair

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Private detective Bertha Cool is hired by a blind man to find a girl hit by a car, a young woman wh… read more

Similar categories in A.A. Fair's Bats Fly at Dusk book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Crook o' Lune by E.C.R. Lorac

16. Crook o' Lune

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.15

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding lands … read more

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's Crook o' Lune book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Trouble at the Brownstone (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #16) by Robert Goldsborough

17. 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 Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Murder on the French Riviera (A Miss Underhay Mystery #16) by Helena Dixon

18. Murder on the French Riviera (A Miss Underhay Mystery #16)

By: Helena Dixon

4.44

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

A grand old hotel, fresh coffee on the balcony, a perfect view of the sparkling ocean and… surely n… read more

Similar categories in Helena Dixon's Murder on the French Riviera (A Miss Underhay Mystery #16) book and Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

12 Top fiction books like The Case of the Angry Mourner by Erle Stanley Gardner

Transform Your Habits

Field of Blood (Paddy Meehan, #1)

Denise Mina

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)

Colin Dexter

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Murder in E Minor

Robert Goldsborough

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Murder in the Ball Park (Nero Wolfe Novels by Robert Goldsborough #9)

Robert Goldsborough

4.03

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17 Top fiction books like Shills Can't Cash Chips by Erle Stanley Gardner, A.A. Fair

Transform Your Habits

The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes

Lawrence Block

3.39

Transform Your Habits

God Save The Child (Spenser, #2)

Robert B. Parker

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Forever and a Death

Donald E. Westlake , Jeff Kleeman

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Castle in the Air

Donald E. Westlake

3.50

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