Books like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

1. 

   The Mysterious Affair at Styles

   Agatha Christie · 1920 · Hercule Poirot #1

   Because same series (Hercule Poirot #1); also by Agatha Christie; shares tags: mystery, detective, classics.

   Hastings reunites with refugee Poirot at Styles Court after Emily Inglethorp is poisoned in her locked room.

2. 

   Murder on the Orient Express

   Agatha Christie · 1934 · Hercule Poirot #10

   Because same series (Hercule Poirot #10); also by Agatha Christie; shares tags: mystery, classics, detective.

   Poirot is trapped by snow with thirteen strangers after an American is found stabbed in his berth.

3. 

   Death on the Nile

   Agatha Christie · 1937 · Hercule Poirot #18

   Because same series (Hercule Poirot #18); also by Agatha Christie; shares tags: mystery, classics, detective.

   Poirot takes a Nile cruise where a young heiress is shot dead in her cabin.

4. 

   The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

   Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892 · Sherlock Holmes #3

   Because shares tags: classics, crime, detective.

   Twelve Strand cases from Irene Adler to the Copper Beeches, with Holmes at his sharpest and strangest.

5. 

   The Hound of the Baskervilles

   Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902 · Sherlock Holmes #5

   Because shares tags: classics, mystery, detective.

   Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.

6. 

   A Study in Scarlet

   Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887 · Sherlock Holmes #1

   Because shares tags: classics, mystery, detective.

   Watson meets Holmes in Baker Street, a Brixton body bears the word Rache, and a Utah revenge tale explains it.

7. 

   And Then There Were None

   Agatha Christie · 1939

   Because also by Agatha Christie; shares tags: mystery, crime, classics.

   And Then There Were None retold: ten to Soldier Island, rhyme deaths, no one left to tell.

8. 

   The Silkworm

   Robert Galbraith · 2014 · Cormoran Strike #2

   Because shares tags: mystery, crime, detective.

   A missing novelist and a cruel manuscript pull Strike and Robin into London publishing.

9. 

   Mr. Mercedes

   Stephen King · 2014 · Bill Hodges Trilogy #1

   Because shares tags: crime, mystery, detective.

   Retired Hodges hunts Mercedes killer Brady Hartsfield concert plot.

10. 

    Kiss the Girls

    James Patterson · 1995 · Alex Cross #2

    Because shares tags: crime, mystery, detective.

    Cross hunts Casanova kidnapping women including niece Naomi.

11. 

    1st to Die

    James Patterson · 2001 · Women's Murder Club #1

    Because shares tags: crime, mystery, detective.

    Lindsay, Claire, Cindy and Jill hunt a honeymoon killer terrorizing San Francisco.

12. 

    In the Woods

    Tana French · 2007 · Dublin Murder Squad #1

    Because shares tags: mystery, crime, detective.

    A detective investigates a girl's murder in the woods where his own friends vanished twenty years earlier.

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