Books like Crooked House
12 books with a reading profile close to Crooked House by Agatha Christie. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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1
Endless Night
narrative, mystery
Michael Rogers, a working-class drifter with expensive tastes, meets wealthy American heiress Ellie Goodman at a cursed plot of land known as Gipsy’s Acre.
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2
The Maltese Falcon
narrative, mystery
In San Francisco, private investigator Sam Spade enters a labyrinth of deception after his partner is killed while tailing a man for a mysterious client, Brigid O'Shaughnessy.
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3
Death Comes to Pemberley
by P.D. James
narrative, mystery
Six years after Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy marry, their preparations for the annual Lady Anne’s ball at Pemberley are upended by a sudden crisis.
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4
The Moonstone
narrative, mystery
Rachel Verinder inherits a large yellow diamond known as the Moonstone on her eighteenth birthday, only for the jewel to vanish from her Yorkshire estate that same night.
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5
Tokyo Express
narrative, mystery
In a quiet bay off the coast of Kyushu, the bodies of a government official and a young waitress are discovered.
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6
The House at Riverton
by Kate Morton
narrative, mystery
Ninety-eight-year-old Grace Bradley is approached by a filmmaker documenting a high-society tragedy from 1924.
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7
The Clockmaker's Daughter
by Kate Morton
narrative, mystery
In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by Edward Radcliffe arrives at Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Thames.
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8
The Daughter of Time
narrative, mystery
Bedridden in a hospital with a broken leg, Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant grows restless and turns his investigative skills toward the historical mystery of King Richard III.
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9
The Woman in White
narrative, mystery
The story begins when drawing master Walter Hartright encounters a distressed woman dressed entirely in white on a moonlit road to London.
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10
The Phantom of the Opera
narrative, mystery
Beneath the gilded architecture of the Palais Garnier, a disfigured man named Erik exerts control over the Paris Opera House through extortion and secret passageways.
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11
Neverworld Wake
narrative, mystery
Beatrice and four close friends from an elite boarding school reunite a year after the death of her boyfriend, Whit, who was part of their circle.
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12
Lady Audley's secret
mystery, classic literature
Lucy Graham, a governess with golden curls and a mysterious past, marries the wealthy widower Sir Michael Audley to secure her social standing.
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