Maigret's Pipe: Seventeen Stories
10 best books like Maigret's Pipe: Seventeen Stories (Georges Simenon): Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, An Arsène Lupin Omnibus, The Leavenworth Case, Porte aperte, The Paris Directive, End Games, The Kiss Murder, Poets and Murder, Summertime All the Cats Are Bored
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0553212427 |
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.
Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
| Author | Michael Sims |
| ISBN | 0143105663 |
Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for...
| Author | Maurice Leblanc |
| ISBN | 1840226870 |
Enter Arsène Lupin, Gentleman – Cambrioleur, the ‘Prince of Thieves’, one of the most daring and dashing individuals who ever lifted a diamond necklace from under the noses of the authorities. Young and handsome, laughing his way through difficulties and danger, Lupin is also the master of...
| Author | Anna Katharine Green |
| ISBN | 1402170122 |
• This eBook contains 13 illustrations, including all the drawings by G.W. Peters used in a 1905 printing by G.P. PUTMAN’S SONS.
“The Leavenworth Case” is the first novel of Anna Katharine Green, an American poet and novelist, who was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America,...
| Author | Leonardo Sciascia |
| ISBN | 8845902625 |
A Palermo, verso la fine degli Anni Trenta, «un crimine atroce e folle, di cui è protagonista un personaggio vinto quanto quelli di Verga e sgradevole quanto quelli di Pirandello». La macchina giudiziaria si muove – e sin dall’inizio aleggia sul processo l’ombra della condanna a morte. In...
| Author | Gerald Jay |
| ISBN | 0385535481 |
Christopher Reich: "Outstanding! A beguiling, atmospheric, and entirely entertaining novel that promises intrigue and suspense from the very first page. Inspector Mazarelle is a wonderful creation: a world weary, gimlet-eyed detective who must rouse himself for one last case. I expect to see...
| Author | Michael Dibdin |
| ISBN | 0375425217 |
When an advance scout for an American film company disappears, Aurelio Zen's most recent assignment in remote Calabria becomes anything but routine. Despite a savage attack that has scared the locals silent, Zen is determined to expose the truth. To make matters more complicated, a group of dangerous...
| Author | Mehmet Murat Somer |
| ISBN | 0143114727 |
The Number One Ladies' Detective Agencymeets Pedro Almodovar in this outrageous new series featuring an ultraglamorous sleuth
Bestsellers in Mehmet Murat Somer's home country of Turkey and set to take the world by storm, the arrival of the Hop-�iki-Yaya mysteries is cause for excitement...
| Author | Robert van Gulik |
| ISBN | 0226848760 |
I have thirteen of this series, and I read them very sparingly, as I don't want to get to the end. Aping the traditional structure of 18thC Chinese mysteries, with three interlocking cases, the prose is spare and beautiful, the line drawings (by the author) enchanting. This was the last he wrote, in 1968.
"A.D....
Summertime All the Cats Are Bored
It’s the middle of a long hot summer on the French Mediterranean shore and the town is teeming with tourists. Sebag and Molina, two tired cops who are being slowly devoured by dull routine and family worries, deal with the day’s misdemeanors and petty complaints at the Perpignan police headquarters....
| Author | Pieter Aspe |
| ISBN | 1497678897 |
Behind the glamorous facade of elite Belgian society lies a seedy world unseen by the public eye—but nothing stays hidden forever
Inspector Pieter Van In is begrudgingly finishing up a healthy lunch when he hears the news: While restoring their farmhouse, the Vermasts have found a skeleton...
Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
Lost secrets of the Parisian Knights Templar, dangerous Chinatown sweatshops, dirty policemen, and botched affairs of the heart—the twelfth Aimée Leduc mystery is the most exciting yet!
Aimée Leduc is happy her long-time business partner René has found a girlfriend. Really, she...
| Author | Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald |
Written in traditional verse form, the work by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald drew on folklore and the Finnish epic Kalevala, and helped catalyze the budding national renaissance in the late 19th century.
The translation by Triinu Kartus, an expat Estonian poet who resides in Tasmania, is the...
| Author | Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0898751276 |
The central place in Alexei Tolstoy's work is held by his books about the events of the Great October Revolution and the Civil War. His "Ordeal" (1919-1941) is a book about the Russian people as they forge their way to a new life, about the Russian intelligentsia, which, as a result of a long "ordeal", found...
| Author | James Oliver Curwood |
| ISBN | 1434603385 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Robert Barnard |
| ISBN | 0140237879 |
I read some Robert Barnard books decades ago, but I’d never read one featuring Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Perry Trethowan. Poor Trethowan comes from one of the most dysfunctional families in life or literature. Having cut off all contact with his family 15 years ago, Trethowan is drawn back...
| Author | Knut Hamsun |
| ISBN | 0374292809 |
The women at the pump in Hamsun's small Norwegian coastal town are seldom short of talking points: a birth (and where did those brown eyes come from?), a marriage (shotgun?), a death in strange circumstances (the victim flattened by a falling barrel of whale oil); the up-and-down career of the town's...
"What’s the first thing we learn about icebergs? That we only see the tip. Nine tenths of every one is out-of-sight."
I've only read a handful of China Mieville's short stories, but so far they all have been just like icebergs - below the little bit on the surface hides the bulk of potentiality. The...
