Books like Lady Audley's secret
12 books with a reading profile close to Lady Audley's secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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The Maltese Falcon
mystery, classic literature
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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Jamaica Inn
mystery, classic literature
After her mother’s death, Mary Yellan moves to facts the bleak Cornish moors to live with her Aunt Patience at Jamaica Inn.
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Ordeal by Innocence
mystery, classic literature
Jacko Argyle dies in prison while serving a life sentence for the murder of his adoptive mother, Rachel.
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Tokyo Express
mystery, classic literature
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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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
mystery, classic literature
In the quiet village of King’s Abbot, wealthy widower Roger Ackroyd is found stabbed to death in his study shortly after learning a local woman committed suicide to escape a blackmailer.
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The Moonstone
mystery, classic literature
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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Death Comes to Pemberley
by P.D. James
mystery, classic literature
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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The Woman in White
mystery, classic literature
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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Geisterseher
mystery, classic literature
The novel follows a German Prince living in Venice who becomes entangled in a conspiracy orchestrated by a mysterious, masked Armenian.
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The Daughter of Time
mystery, classic literature
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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