Books like The Daughter of Time
12 books with a reading profile close to The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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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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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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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by Casey Cep
history, narrative
In the 1970s, Reverend Willie Maxwell was accused of murdering five family members for insurance payouts in rural Alabama.
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Child's History of England (Annotated and Illustrated)
by Charles Dickens, Toby Davidson
history, narrative
In this work, Charles Dickens provides a chronological narrative of English history spanning from the ancient Roman invasions under Julius Caesar to the seventeenth-century Glorious Revolution.
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Crooked House
narrative, mystery
Aristide Leonides, a wealthy Greek businessman, dies from a fatal injection of eserine rather than his usual insulin.
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The Source
history, narrative
The narrative centers on an archaeological excavation at Tell Makor, a fictional mound in northern Israel, during the early 1960s.
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
history, narrative
In 1860, the brutal murder of three-year-old Saville Kent at Road Hill House shocked mid-Victorian England.
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Quo Vadis
by Henryk Sienkiewicz, W.S. Kuniczak
history, narrative
Set in Nero's Rome, "Quo Vadis" tells the story of the Roman patrician Marcus Vinicius and his passionate, yet conflicted, love for the Christian Ligia.
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Hawaii
history, narrative
James Michener’s narrative begins with the volcanic formation of the islands before chronicling the successive waves of human arrivals.
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The Last of the Mohicans
history, narrative
Set in 1757 during the French and Indian War, the narrative follows frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye, and his Mohican companions, Chingachgook and Uncas.
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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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