The Leavenworth Case
10 best books like The Leavenworth Case (Anna Katharine Green): Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, The Big Bow Mystery, The Silent Bullet, The Thinking Machine, The Red Thumb Mark, When a Man Marries, The Benson Murder Case, The Lerouge Case
| Author | E.W. Hornung |
| ISBN | 0141439335 |
Gentleman thief Raffles is daring, debonair, devilishly handsome-and a first-rate cricketer. In these eight stories, the master burglar indulges his passion for cricket and crime: stealing jewels from a country house, outwitting the law, pilfering from the nouveau riche, and, of course, bowling...
| 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 | Israel Zangwill |
| ISBN | 0976654636 |
Regarded as the first full-length locked room mystery, the novel focuses on a murder that has occurred inside a locked room, with no clear indication as to the weapon used, the perpetrator of the horrendous crime, or a possible escape route. Needless to say, The Big Bow Mystery has all the elements...
| Author | Arthur B. Reeve |
| ISBN | 1406538205 |
Arthur Benjamin Reeve (1880-1936), was a graduate of Princeton and attended New York Law School. He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes," and for writing 18 mystery/detective novels. His works include: The Black...
| Author | Jacques Futrelle |
| ISBN | 0812970144 |
This irascible genius, this diminutive egghead scientist, known to the world as “The Thinking Machine,” is no less than the newly rediscovered literary link between Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe: Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, who—with only the power of ratiocination—unravels...
| Author | R. Austin Freeman |
| ISBN | 1406596280 |
Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medicolegal forensic investigator Dr Thorndyke. He invented the inverted detective story and used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels. A large proportion of the Dr Thorndyke...
| Author | Mary Roberts Rinehart |
| ISBN | 0554002140 |
4.5 STARS
Objectively, this is probably more of a four star book but I so thoroughly enjoyed it I'll bump it up to five stars. I thought it was delightful! Just enough mystery to be intriguing, a dash of romance, winsome humor and keen characterization. Kit is such an engaging narrator and Mr. Harbison...
| Author | S.S. Van Dine |
| ISBN | 0701206772 |
This novel opens with the death of playboy stockbroker, Alvin Benson, who is found in his brownstone mansion with a bullet through his head. First on the scene is Philo Vance, amateur detective, who is at once intrigued by the absence of Alvin's toupee and his false teeth. These odd clues set him in pursuit...
| Author | Émile Gaboriau |
| ISBN | 1406517119 |
because of the end it's a 3.5 for me.
I wish you could have seen the joy on my face while reading this book; then again, I seem to be much happier these days reading in the past so I'm not at all surprised. Despite the crappy ending, The Widow Lerouge is a solid mystery story centered around the investigation...
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
| ISBN | 1842323849 |
Freeman Wills Crofts (1879-1957) was one of the most successful of the crime writers from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, writing a book almost every year during his writing career. He was a member of the Detection Club, alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers and became a full time writer...
| Author | Marie Belloc Lowndes |
| ISBN | 0897332997 |
”’Do you think to escape the consequences of your hideous treachery. I trusted you, Mrs. Bunting, and you betrayed me! But I am protected by a higher power, for I still have much to do.’ Then, his voice sinking to a whisper, he hissed out ‘Your end will be bitter as wormwood and sharp as a two-edged...
| Author | A.E.W. Mason |
| ISBN | 0881841110 |
At the Villa Rose is a detective novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason featuring his character Inspector Hanaud.
In Aix les Bains during the early 20th century, Celia Harland, a beautiful (of course) young English girl down on her luck is befriended by a rich widow, Madame Dauvray, an addict of "spiritualism",...
| Author | Melville Davisson Post |
| ISBN | 1410106314 |
This work usually appears on lists of the ten most important books of detective stories published in the United States. The tales of Uncle Abner take place in what is now West Virginia, in the 1840's or 1850's. Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was a lawyer, political insider, and candidate for President...
| Author | E.C. Bentley |
| ISBN | 0755103270 |
On Wall Street, the mere mention of the name Sigsbee Manderson is enough to send a stock soaring—or bring it tumbling back to earth. Feared but not loved, Manderson has no one to mourn him when the gardener at his British country estate finds him facedown in the dirt, a bullet buried in his brain. There...
