Books like Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
11 books with a reading profile close to Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie. Practical, outward-looking, growth-minded, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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The Golden Ball and Other Stories
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, mystery
This collection departs from Christie’s typical detective novels by gathering fifteen short stories centered on peculiar encounters and supernatural events.
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The Final Problem
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, mystery
Sherlock Holmes identifies Professor Moriarty as the calculating architect of London’s organized crime, sparking a direct conflict that forces the detective to retreat from England.
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The Thin Man
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · entertainment, mystery
Set in Depression-era New York during the Christmas season, the story follows Nick Charles, a retired private investigator, and his wealthy wife Nora.
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, mystery
Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
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The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, mystery
Symbologist Robert Langdon investigates a murder at the Louvre Museum, where a curator’s body is surrounded by complex riddles and Fibonacci sequences.
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Treasure Island
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · entertainment, accessible
Young Jim Hawkins discovers a hand-drawn map in the trunk of a deceased sea captain, pointing the way to Captain Flint’s buried hoard on a remote tropical island.
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Meddling Kids
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, mystery
In 1977, the Blyton Summer Detective Club unmasked a costume-wearing criminal at Sleepy Lake, but the experience left the four pre-teens and their dog mentally scarred.
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THE WIDOW
by John Grisham
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, mystery
Simon Latch practices law in a quiet Virginia town until he is formally charged with a homicide he did not commit.
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Angels and Demons
by Dan Brown
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, mystery
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon travels to CERN in Switzerland to investigate the murder of a physicist branded with the word Illuminati.
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JUDGE STONE
by Viola Davis and James Patterson
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, mystery
Judge Mary Stone presides over a rural courtroom in Union Springs, Alabama, where she manages a legal case tangled in local history and conflicting ethical loyalties.
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