12 must-read fiction books like Absent in the Spring by Agatha Christie, Mary Westmacott

Cover of Absent in the Spring by Agatha Christie, Mary Westmacott

Absent in the Spring

By: Agatha Christie , Mary Westmacott

4.16

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

A striking novel of truth and soul-searching. Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Jo…

"Better to wear out than to rust out!"

-Agatha Christie, Absent in the Spring

"... during every conversation, sooner or later somebody says, “Nobody knows what I went through at that time!"

-Agatha Christie, Absent in the Spring

If you liked the fiction plot in Absent in the Spring by Agatha Christie, Mary Westmacott , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries by Gillian Gill

1. Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries

By: Gillian Gill

4.31

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

For 50 years, Agatha Christie ruled the roost in British mysteries. Her books have been translated … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • british literature
Cover of Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5) by Agatha Christie

2. Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.94

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

An elderly widow is murdered at a clifftop seaside house...What is the connection between a failed … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Slike ting blir sendt oss for å prøve oss. I hvert fall tror jeg det. Jeg skjønner ikke hvorfor de ellers blir sendt oss."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

"I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

"Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

"It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

Cover of Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie

3. Destination Unknown

By: Agatha Christie

3.70

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missin… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"His enthusiasm was of a contagious kind."

-Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

"He smiled, but not a very pleasant smile. Faintly catlike."

-Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

"Food and money and luxury and women aren’t everything, you know."

-Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

"Yet, even though he himself escaped unscathed, it was nevertheless defeat."

-Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

Cover of The Floating Admiral by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, Freeman Wills Crofts, Clemence Dane, Victor L. Whitechurch, The Detection Club, Anthony Berkeley, Ronald Knox, Edgar Jepson, Henry Wade, Milward Kennedy, John Rhode, G.D.H. Cole, Margaret Cole

4. The Floating Admiral

By: Agatha Christie , Dorothy L. Sayers , G.K. Chesterton , Freeman Wills Crofts , Clemence Dane , Victor L. Whitechurch , The Detection Club , Anthony Berkeley , Ronald Knox , Edgar Jepson , Henry Wade , Milward Kennedy , John Rhode , G.D.H. Cole , Margaret Cole

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. Bu… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by our own private interpretation of the matter, we can see on…"

-Agatha Christie, The Floating Admiral

Cover of Come, Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie, None, Agatha Christie Mallowan

5. Come, Tell Me How You Live

By: Agatha Christie , None , Agatha Christie Mallowan

4.09

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Over the course of her long, prolific career, Agatha Christie gave the world a wealth of ingenious … read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
"I pass to the Stationery Department. I buy several fountain and stylographic pens - it being my experience that, though a fountain pen in England behaves in an exemplary manner, the moment it is let …"

-Agatha Christie, Come, Tell Me How You Live

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6. The Golden Ball and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Is it a gesture of good will or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to mag… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: War of the Worlds by Manly Wade Wellman

7. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: War of the Worlds

By: Manly Wade Wellman

4.34

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger and Dr. Watson meet their match when the streets of London ar… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Barbara Hambly, Stephen        King, John Joseph Adams, Stephen Baxter, Anne Perry, Neil Gaiman, Geoffrey A. Landis, H. Paul Jeffers, Tanith Lee, Laurie R. King, Michael Moorcock, Chris Roberson, Robert J. Sawyer, Naomi Novik, Tim Lebbon, Mary Robinette Kowal, Sharyn McCrumb, Peter Tremayne, Darrell Schweitzer, Anthony Burgess, Barbara Roden, Dominic Green, Bradley H. Sinor, Rob Rogers, Vonda N. McIntyre, Tony Pi, Mark Valentine, Edward D. Hoch, Amy Myers

8. The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Barbara Hambly , Stephen King , John Joseph Adams , Stephen Baxter , Anne Perry , Neil Gaiman , Geoffrey A. Landis , H. Paul Jeffers , Tanith Lee , Laurie R. King , Michael Moorcock , Chris Roberson , Robert J. Sawyer , Naomi Novik , Tim Lebbon , Mary Robinette Kowal , Sharyn McCrumb , Peter Tremayne , Darrell Schweitzer , Anthony Burgess , Barbara Roden , Dominic Green , Bradley H. Sinor , Rob Rogers , Vonda N. McIntyre , Tony Pi , Mark Valentine , Edward D. Hoch , Amy Myers

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

The game is afoot! Night Shade Books is proud to present the fantastic adventures of the world's gr… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. The Unexpected Guest

By: Agatha Christie , Charles Osborne

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog near the South Wales coast, and makes his wa… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. They Came to Baghdad

By: Agatha Christie

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organization… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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11. The Sittaford Mystery

By: Agatha Christie

3.76

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I help those who can help themselves."

-Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery

"Sloppy crying had never helped anyone yet."

-Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery

"To cry at will is not an easy accomplishment."

-Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery

"Emily had the kind of personality that soars triumphantly over all obstacles."

-Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery

Cover of Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie, Steven Saylor

12. Death Comes as the End

By: Agatha Christie , Steven Saylor

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

13. Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks

By: None

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Agatha Christie died in 1976 at 85, the world's most popular author. After the death of her only ch… read more

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14. Absent in the Spring

By: Agatha Christie , Mary Westmacott

4.16

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

A striking novel of truth and soul-searching. Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Jo… read more

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  • romance
  • audiobook
  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • drama
"Better to wear out than to rust out!"

-Agatha Christie, Absent in the Spring

"... during every conversation, sooner or later somebody says, “Nobody knows what I went through at that time!"

-Agatha Christie, Absent in the Spring

15. Taken at the Flood (Hercule Poirot, #27)

By: Agatha Christie

3.00

Format: 1118 pages, Paperback

Shortly after marrying a young widow, Gordon Cloade is killed in the London blitz and the former Mr… read more

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16. An Autobiography

By: Agatha Christie , None

3.00

Format: 1118 pages,

Back in print in an all-new edition, is the engaging and illuminating chronicle of the life of the … read more

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17. Spider's Web

By: Agatha Christie , Charles Osborne

3.92

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

SPIDER S WEB read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

18. The New Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie

By: Pam McAllister , Dick Riley , None

4.23

Format: 690 pages,

56 authors on hundreds of titles, including plays and short stories. Lavishly embellished with blac… read more

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19. Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks

By: None

3.60

Format: 96 pages,

In this follow-up volume to the award-winning 'Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks', Christie archiv… read more

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20. Parker Pyne Investigates

By: Agatha Christie

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The forlorn, the anxious and the puzzled have all beaten a path to Parker Pyne's office where, arme… read more

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21. Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days

By: Jared Cade

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In December 1926 Agatha Christie became front-page news when she vanished in bizarre circumstances … read more

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8 best-selling audiobook books like Absent in the Spring by Agatha Christie, Mary Westmacott

Transform Your Habits

Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

Agatha Christie

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Destination Unknown

Agatha Christie

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Floating Admiral

Agatha Christie , Dorothy L. Sayers , G.K. Chesterton , Freeman Wills Crofts , Clemence Dane , Victor L. Whitechurch , The Detection Club , Anthony Berkeley , Ronald Knox , Edgar Jepson , Henry Wade , Milward Kennedy , John Rhode , G.D.H. Cole , Margaret Cole

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Golden Ball and Other Stories

Agatha Christie

4.03

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11 Best fiction books like They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie

Transform Your Habits

The Rose and the Yew Tree

Agatha Christie , Mary Westmacott

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Unfinished Portrait

Agatha Christie , Mary Westmacott

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Unexpected Guest

Agatha Christie , Charles Osborne

3.95

Transform Your Habits

They Came to Baghdad

Agatha Christie

4.00

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