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9 best books like Miss or Mrs.? (Wilkie Collins): The Innocence of Father Brown, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, The Briefcase, The Laughing Policeman, Sad Cypress, The Visit, The High Window, Der Untertan, Las edades de Lulú

The Innocence of Father Brown
AuthorG.K. Chesterton
ISBN0809592533
Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. "How in Tartarus," cried Flambeau, "did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?" -- "Oh, one's little flock, you know!" said Father Brown, arching...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
AuthorRaymond Carver
ISBN0679723056
I'll announce the cliche of my loving this book before you beat me to it.

I'm an overeducated, mock-contemplative early-twenty-something with a penchant for strong male voices (despite my feminist leanings) and a distaste for anything too sentimental. I was raised in the tradition of "Show,...
The Briefcase
AuthorHiromi Kawakami
ISBN1582435995
Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei" in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" ("Teacher"). He is thirty years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. Their relationship, traced...
The Laughing Policeman
AuthorMaj Sjöwall
ISBN0679742239
One of the things I dig most about the "Martin Beck" mysteries is that they are only named "Martin Beck" mysteries out of convenience. He's the highest ranking policeman in Sjowall and Wahloo's Stockholm Homicide Division, and a couple of the early books tended to focus on him, but as the series goes on...
Sad Cypress
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0007120710
Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor...
The Visit
AuthorFriedrich Dürrenmatt
ISBN0802130666
This is the first complete English translation of the play that many critics consider to be Durrenmatt's finest work. Unlike an earlier version adapted for the English-language stage, this translation adheres faithfully to the author's original play as it was published and performed in German.

The...
The High Window
AuthorRaymond Chandler
ISBN0394758269
A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation.

"Raymond Chandler is a star of...
Der Untertan
AuthorHeinrich Mann
ISBN3596136407
"Hurraahhhh!!! Da kommt der Kaiser!!!" Diederich Heßling, ein ewig deutsches Thema. Kurt Tucholsky brachte es wie immer auf den Punkt, als er Heinrich Manns Roman über den Aufstieg eines Erzopportunisten als "Herbarium des deutschen Mannes" bezeichnete. "Hier ist er ganz -- in seiner Religiosität,...
Las edades de Lulú
AuthorAlmudena Grandes
ISBN8472237486
Sumida todavía en los temores de una infancia carente de afecto, Lulú, una niña de quince años, sucumbe a la atracción que ejerce sobre ella un joven, amigo de la familia, a quien hasta entonces ella había deseado vagamente. Después de esta primera experiencia, Lulú, niña eterna, alimenta...
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