13 must-read detective books like Bats Fly at Dusk by A.A. Fair

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

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…

If you liked the detective plot in Bats Fly at Dusk by A.A. Fair , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Canary Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #2) by S.S. Van Dine, Willard Huntington Wright

1. The Canary Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #2)

By: S.S. Van Dine , Willard Huntington Wright

3.69

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

1927. Illustrated with scenes from the Paramount photoplay. Around 1925 Willard Huntington Wright, … read more

Similar categories in S.S. Van Dine's The Canary Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #2) book and A.A. Fair's Bats Fly at Dusk

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Silent Speaker (Nero Wolfe, #11) by Walter Mosley, Rex Stout

2. The Silent Speaker (Nero Wolfe, #11)

By: Walter Mosley , Rex Stout

4.17

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

When a powerful government official scheduled to speak to a group of millionaire business men turns… read more

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's The Silent Speaker (Nero Wolfe, #11) book and A.A. Fair's Bats Fly at Dusk

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish."

-Walter Mosley, The Silent Speaker (Nero Wolfe, #11)

Cover of Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12) by Margery Allingham

3. Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

By: Margery Allingham

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Albert Campion returns from three years’ work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his m… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12) book and A.A. Fair's Bats Fly at Dusk

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Tarzan the Magnificent (Tarzan, #21) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

4. Tarzan the Magnificent (Tarzan, #21)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.71

Format: 35 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Two tribes of frightful warrior women, the Kaji and the Zuli, war with one another for possession o… read more

Similar categories in Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan the Magnificent (Tarzan, #21) book and A.A. Fair's Bats Fly at Dusk

  • fiction
"How much he could believe of it, he did not know; for he did not know the man, and he had learned to suspect that every civilized man was a liar and a cheat until he had proved himself otherwise."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Magnificent (Tarzan, #21)

Cover of The Burglar in the Closet (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #2) by Lawrence Block

5. The Burglar in the Closet (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #2)

By: Lawrence Block

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's hard to ignore someone with his hands in your mouth. Bernie Rhodenbarr's all ears when Dr. She… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's The Burglar in the Closet (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #2) book and A.A. Fair's Bats Fly at Dusk

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Case of The Screaming Woman by Erle Stanley Gardner

6. The Case of The Screaming Woman

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction

7. The Case of the Beautiful Beggar

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.50

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

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

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Case of the Careless Kitten by Erle Stanley Gardner

8. The Case of the Careless Kitten

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

DOUBLY DISAPPEARED Ten years ago, town banker Franklin Shore left all his money behind, disappeared… read more

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

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Case of the Empty Tin by Erle Stanley Gardner

9. The Case of the Empty Tin

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A new tin can, secretly placed among the rows of Florence Gentrie's preserves, contains not a speck… read more

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

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Case of the Counterfeit Eye by Erle Stanley Gardner

10. The Case of the Counterfeit Eye

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.98

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

After wealthy businessman Hartley Bassett's apparent suicide, Perry Mason discovers too many suspec… read more

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

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Case of the Lonely Heiress by Erle Stanley Gardner

11. The Case of the Lonely Heiress

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A suspicious personal ad conceals nefarious intent--and eventually lands in the lap of Perry Mason.… read more

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

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5) by Donald E. Westlake

12. Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Byzantine Fire: 90 carats of flawless ruby with great national and religious significance. It's… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5) book and A.A. Fair's Bats Fly at Dusk

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

13. The Case of the Gilded Lily

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Stewart G. Bedford loves his wife Ann, and cooperates with blackmailer Binney Denham. But he wakes … read more

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

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Unnatural Acts (Dan Shamble, Zombie PI, #2) by Kevin J. Anderson

14. Unnatural Acts (Dan Shamble, Zombie PI, #2)

By: Kevin J. Anderson

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

To Be Dead Or Not To Be Dead In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancer… read more

Similar categories in Kevin J. Anderson's Unnatural Acts (Dan Shamble, Zombie PI, #2) book and A.A. Fair's Bats Fly at Dusk

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Case of the Long-Legged Models by Erle Stanley Gardner

15. The Case of the Long-Legged Models

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.50

Format: 296 pages,

Stephanie Falkner is forced to deal with the mobsters who almost certainly killed her father, inclu… read more

Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Long-Legged Models book and A.A. Fair's Bats Fly at Dusk

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Old Flames (Inspector Troy, #2) by John Lawton

16. Old Flames (Inspector Troy, #2)

By: John Lawton

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Brilliantly evoking the intrigue of the Cold War and 1950s London, John Lawtons thrilling sequel to… read more

Similar categories in John Lawton's Old Flames (Inspector Troy, #2) book and A.A. Fair's Bats Fly at Dusk

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

17. The Key-Lock Man

By: Louis L'Amour

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

He had led the posse for miles through the desert, but now Matt Keelock was growing desperate. He w… read more

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18. The Case of the Hesitant Hostess

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Perry Mason has no hesitation about defending penniless ex-salesman Albert Brogan against a charge … read more

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19. The Case of the Baited Hook

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.87

Format: 309 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Who was that masked woman? That's the question plaguing the perpetually inquiring mind of Perry Mas… read more

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20. The Case of the Deadly Toy

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.50

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

Toddler Robert, heir to Selkirk fortune, plays with his mother Lorraine's real gun outside, vanishe… read more

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21. The Case of the Golddigger's Purse

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.50

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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22. 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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23. The Scarab Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #5)

By: S.S. Van Dine , Willard Huntington Wright

3.84

Format: 523 pages, Hardcover

Philo Vance was drawn into the Scarab murder case by sheer coincidence, although there is little do… read more

Similar categories in S.S. Van Dine's The Scarab Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #5) book and A.A. Fair's Bats Fly at Dusk

24. The Case of the Terrified Typist

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Perry hires a temporary typist who flees in a panic, leaving behind a pair of diamonds hidden in a … read more

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25. The Case of the Buried Clock

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.24

Format: 324 pages,

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26. Nobody's Perfect (Dortmunder, #4)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.10

Format: None pages,

The priceless painting is titled "Folly Leads to Man's Ruin," and its owner, the rich and careless … read more

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27. The Case of the Daring Divorcee

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

Perry Mason and Della Street were both out to lunch. Gertie, the receptionist and telephone operato… read more

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28. The Case of the Lucky Loser

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Gambler Ted Balfour is accused of shooting debt collector, drunk driving over the corpse, head crus… read more

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

29. 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 A.A. Fair's Bats Fly at Dusk

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

30. 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 A.A. Fair's Bats Fly at Dusk

  • mystery
Cover of The Case of the Lazy Lover  (The Perry Mason Mysteries Book 1) by Erle Stanley Gardner

31. The Case of the Lazy Lover (The Perry Mason Mysteries Book 1)

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.79

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

MURDER WITH COMPLICATIONSWhen Perry Mason receives two mysterious checks from Lola Allred, a woman … read more

Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Lazy Lover (The Perry Mason Mysteries Book 1) book and A.A. Fair's Bats Fly at Dusk

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

18 must-read fiction books like Bats Fly at Dusk by A.A. Fair

Transform Your Habits

The Canary Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #2)

S.S. Van Dine , Willard Huntington Wright

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Silent Speaker (Nero Wolfe, #11)

Walter Mosley , Rex Stout

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

Margery Allingham

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Tarzan the Magnificent (Tarzan, #21)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.71

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11 Top fiction books like The Case of the Lonely Heiress by Erle Stanley Gardner

Transform Your Habits

The League of Frightened Men (Nero Wolfe, #2)

Rex Stout , Robert Goldsborough

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Miss Silver Deals With Death (Miss Silver, #6)

Patricia Wentworth

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Dark Canyon

Louis L'Amour

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Turn on the Heat

Erle Stanley Gardner

4.18

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