18 must-read crime books like Three Witnesses (Nero Wolfe, #26) by Rex Stout, Susan Conant

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Three Witnesses (Nero Wolfe, #26)

By: Rex Stout , Susan Conant

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

In three cases--a millionaire who writes his own death warrant, a dog who becomes a killer's worst …

If you liked the crime plot in Three Witnesses (Nero Wolfe, #26) by Rex Stout, Susan Conant , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)

By: Ngaio Marsh

4.00

Format: 303 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Murder becomes a family affair... The Lampreys were a charming, eccentric happy-go-lucky family, t… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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2. Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Format: None pages,

A spa-goer resorts to murder. Even down in New Zealand, war-fueled spy fever is running wild. Near … read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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3. 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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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
"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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4. The Last Coincidence

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Playboy Sparky Linville has a nasty notion of fun and games. But when he picks popular Noreen James… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. Death on Deadline

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.97

Format: 352 pages,

The chief shareholder in the New York Gazette was appalled when family divisons made it seem inevit… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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6. The Bloodied Ivy

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin go back to college to investigate a campus death in this first paperb… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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7. 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

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5) by Ngaio Marsh

8. Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Death served well-chilled The leading lady of a theater company touring New Zealand was stunning… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
"What do you think, Mr Alleyn? If there's another war will the young chaps come at it, same as we did, thinking it's great? And get the same jolt? What do you reckon?" "I'm afraid to speculate," said …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

"My poor fat Alfie! He was not a romantic husband, but he was so kind and understanding. He never minded whether I was amusing or dull. He thought it impossible that I could be dull. I didn't have to …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

Cover of The King is Dead (Ellery Queen Detective, #23) by Ellery Queen

9. The King is Dead (Ellery Queen Detective, #23)

By: Ellery Queen

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Armed men invade the Queen apartment, led by Abel Bendigo, brother of one of the world's most power… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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10. 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

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
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11. Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

It was planned as an act of a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. … read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
"It's like one of those affairs in books," said Bailey disgustedly."Someone trying to think up a new way to do a murder. Silly, I call it." "What do you say, Roper?" said Alleyn. "To my way of thinkin…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

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12. Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of th… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
"Look here,' said Nigel suddenly, 'let's pretend it's a detective novel. Where would we be by this time? About halfway through, I should think. Well, who's your pick' 'I am invariably gulled by detect…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)

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13. Silver Spire

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

For the sixth time Robert Goldsborough invites us into Nero Wolfe's West Thirty-fifth Street browns… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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14. Three Witnesses (Nero Wolfe, #26)

By: Rex Stout , Susan Conant

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

In three cases--a millionaire who writes his own death warrant, a dog who becomes a killer's worst … read more

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  • detective
  • humor
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

15. Artists in Crime (Roderick Alleyn, #6)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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16. Archie Meets Nero Wolfe: A Prequel to Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.76

Format: 180 pages,

To become part of the Nero Wolfe legend, Archie Goodwin must prove his worth Archie Goodwin comes t… read more

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17. The Case of the Horrified Heirs

By: Erle Stanley Gardner , None

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Mass Market Paperback

WITNESS FOR THE DECEASED.... Virginia Baxter is the only witness still living who can vouch for the… read more

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18. Murder, Stage Left

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.62

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

It's curtains for a famous Broadway director, and private investigator Nero Wolfe is on the case--b… read more

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19. The Case of the Buried Clock

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.24

Format: 324 pages,

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20. Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

The party's over when murder makes an entrance...With the notion of bringing together the most bitt… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
"With corpses stiffening on the premises, sir, all things be possible to a man with a desperate powerful idea egging him on."

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"They were fortified with all the resilience that youth presents to an emotional shock. In the midst of murder and attempted suicide, they had managed, not only to behave with address and good sense, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"For some reason that he had never been able to understand, Mandrake was a man in whom his fellow-creatures confided. He was by no means obviously sympathetic and he seldom asked for confidences but, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"Beneath it hung a faded photograph in an Oxford frame. It presented a Victorian gentleman wearing an ineffable air of hauteur and a costume which suggested that he had begun to dress up as Mr. Sherlo…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

21. Death at the Bar (Roderick Alleyn, #9)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A cosy game of darts in a cosy English pub is going well until one of the players dies on the spot.… read more

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22. Death in a White Tie (Roderick Alleyn, #7)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's… read more

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23. 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

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  • mystery
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24. 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

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Battered Badge (Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries #13) by Robert Goldsborough

25. The Battered Badge (Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries #13)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.91

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

A shake-up in the NYPD homicide squad following a high-profile murder is bad for business for priva… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
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26. The Missing Chapter (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #7)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.94

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

When a loudmouthed, arrogant author is silenced, the reclusive master detective Nero Wolfe looks fo… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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27. Death of an Art Collector (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #14)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.75

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

An art hoarder’s suspicious death paints a nasty picture for Nero Wolfe. No matter how fabulously h… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Archie in the Crosshairs (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #10) by Robert Goldsborough

28. Archie in the Crosshairs (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #10)

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.04

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

When Archie Goodwin’s life is threatened, Wolfe must find the gunman or lose his right-hand man … read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Fade to Black (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #5) by Robert Goldsborough

29. Fade to Black (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #5)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.85

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

For the men of Madison Avenue, the battle between soft-drink giants Cherr-o-key and AmeriCherry see… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Archie Goes Home (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #15) by Robert Goldsborough

30. Archie Goes Home (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #15)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.94

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

Archie Goodwin leaves Manhattan for the Midwest to find out who put a bullet into a banker. Archie … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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31. Stop the Presses! (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #11)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.82

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are tasked with protecting the most hated columnist in New York City … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

23 Top fiction books like Three Witnesses (Nero Wolfe, #26) by Rex Stout, Susan Conant

Transform Your Habits

Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)

Ngaio Marsh

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Last Coincidence

Robert Goldsborough

3.97

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19 Top fiction books like The Missing Chapter (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #7) by Robert Goldsborough

Transform Your Habits

The Final Deduction (Nero Wolfe, #35)

Rex Stout

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

Rex Stout , Loren D. Estleman

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36)

Rex Stout , Stephen Greenleaf

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Death of a Dude (Nero Wolfe, #44)

Rex Stout , Don Coldsmith

3.95

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