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Best Detective Stories of Agatha Christie

10 best books like Best Detective Stories of Agatha Christie (Agatha Christie): The Circus of Adventure, The Sea Fairies, The Wind in the Willows, Sophie's Secret, The Bohemian Girl, Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Storms, Winter Door, The Basilisk’s Lair, A Wild Life: The Authorized Biography, City of Time

The Circus of Adventure
AuthorEnid Blyton
Another fine entry in the series, this adventure is rather original in Enid Blyton's work because it belongs to the genre called Ruritanian romance (in reference to the Ruritania of the novel The Prisoner of Zenda), It is a very good adventure too, with memorable scenes like Jack following the kidnappers...
The Sea Fairies
AuthorL. Frank Baum
ISBN1421818884
Nobody, said Cap'n Bill solemnly, "ever sawr a mermaid an' lived to tell the tale." "Why not?" asked Trot, looking earnestly up into the old sailor's face. They were seated on a bench built around a giant acacia tree that grew just at the edge of the bluff. Below them rolled the blue waves of the great Pacific....
The Wind in the Willows
AuthorMartin Woodside
ISBN1402736967
First of all, i'd like to say that it's my first experience reading english book. And whoa, because i'm not used to read in english, it was like 'trouble' for me to read english book. But honestly i'm not dissapointed at all!

I start to read in english because yeah, can i say that it's interesting...
Sophie's Secret
AuthorNancy N. Rue
ISBN0310707579
About this book:

“Sophie and her friends launch an “archaeological expedition” and make a disturbing discovery. Sophie keeps digging to uncover a shocking family secret. In light of this new revelation, will she ever be able to trust her parents again?”


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The Bohemian Girl
AuthorKenneth M. Cameron
ISBN0312538979
When Denton, the famous American author and expatriate in turn-of-the-century London, receives a letter from a young woman saying she’s in danger and needs his help, he doubts there’s anything he can do. The letter is months old, and was only forwarded to him when the buyer of a painting found it...
Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Storms
AuthorMarion Roberts
ISBN1741758599
Sunny Hathaway—introvert, entrepreneur, inventor, poet, dog lover, and lateral thinker—has a lot on her plate. She's moving to a new house, dealing with step-siblings, and starting a dog entertainment business too.
 
Sunny and her expertly blended, thoroughly modern family are...
Winter Door
AuthorIsobelle Carmody
ISBN0375830189
In the midst of the worst winter on record, Rage is beset with worry. Her mother still hasn’t fully recovered from her car accident despite Rage’s successful quest for healing magic. Her stoic uncle seems to be having second thoughts about looking after her. The school bully, Logan, is increasingly...
The Basilisk’s Lair
AuthorR.L. LaFevers
ISBN0547238673
Nate Fludd, Beastologist, is back in the camel saddle in hot pursuit of a missing, deadly Basilisk--the King of Serpents. As if saving an entire Dhughani village from the Basilisk's poisonous gaze isn't difficult enough, Nate and Aunt Phil must begin to piece together the mystery of his parents' disappearance...
A Wild Life: The Authorized Biography
AuthorJeff Corwin
ISBN0142414034
A fascinating look at the real Jeff Corwin!

From growing up in an urban community near Boston, to falling in love with snakes, to traveling to exotic places, to becoming a beloved Emmy Award-winning television host of Animal Planet, this authorized biography will give readers a first-hand...
City of Time
AuthorEoin McNamee
ISBN0375839127
CATI, THE BOLD Watcher readers met in The Navigator, returns from the shadows of time to summon Owen and Dr. Diamond, for time is literally running out. The moon is coming closer to the earth, causing havoc with weather, tides, and other natural cycles; people fear the world will end. To discover what’s...
Fiendish Deeds
AuthorP.J. Bracegirdle
ISBN1416934162
It's the terrible town on the hideous hill -- and Joy Wells is a proud resident. A fan of classic horror stories, Joy is convinced that famous author E. A. Peugeot based his spine-tingling tales on Spooking. Take the eerie similarities between the nearby swamp and the setting of his masterpiece, "The...
A Kidnapped Santa Claus
AuthorAlex Robinson
ISBN0061782408
First published in 1904, "A Kidnapped Santa Claus" by L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz, describes the action of some uncommon events in the land of Santa. Not far from the Laughing Valley where Santa and all his magical helpers live, and beyond the Forest of Burzee, there stands a huge mountain...
Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil: And Other New Tales Featuring the World's Greatest Detective
AuthorDonald Serrell Thomas
ISBN1605980439
In these five tales, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers: he co-operates with a young Winston Churchill in the famed Siege of Sydney Street; helps defeat a plan for a German invasion outlined in the Zimmerman Telegram; establishes a link between two missing light-house keepers and the...
When Last I Died
AuthorGladys Mitchell
ISBN0915230852
Mrs. Bradley has dealt with murderers before, but she has always dealt with them as a professional psychologist--coolly, scientifically, almost flippantly. Now, however, the brilliant old lady is fiercely determined to bring a cruel and ruthless murderer to bay. Various members of the Bradley...
The Baboons Who Went This Way and That
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
ISBN1841957720
It was a really nice book full of great tales from South Africa, this book is quite like Aesop’s fables. It mainly includes all the tapes related to animals.

They are the same stories that are being told by our grandmothers and great-grandmothers.

A complete fun-read. It invokes...
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
AuthorEmma Thompson
ISBN1408805014
I really liked the story. I was aware of who Emma Thompson is, of course. I’ve seen the Nanny McPhee movies. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the book. The book is divided into chapters that alternate between being the story and being a diary that Emma keeps while on set. Emma is utterly honest. Grumpy...
The House of Green Turf
AuthorEllis Peters
ISBN0708854257
When world famous singer Maggie Tressider crashes her car on the way to a concert, she wakes up in hospital, dazed, in a post-operative shock—and haunted. From some secret place in her subconscious arises the awful conviction that somehow, at some time in the past, she has been responsible for a death....
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