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10 best books like The Red Thumb Mark (R. Austin Freeman): The Red House Mystery, Laura, The Old Man in the Corner, The Leavenworth Case, Trent's Last Case, The Middle Temple Murder, The House Of A Thousand Candles, The House Without a Key, The Roman Hat Mystery, The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu

The Red House Mystery
AuthorA.A. Milne
ISBN0486401294
The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore, A. A. Milne was also the author of numerous dramas, essays, and novels for adults — among them, this droll and finely crafted whodunit.
In it, Milne takes readers to the Red House, a comfortable...
Laura
AuthorVera Caspary
ISBN1558615059
Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charms—not even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Laura’s death, he becomes obsessed...
The Old Man in the Corner
AuthorEmmuska Orczy
ISBN1406835897
Not a word against baronesses … A certain Danish baroness began her tale with the words: “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills …”

Some baronesses just have better writing skills than others.

Even this collection, one of many, of short stories about The Old Man...
The Leavenworth Case
AuthorAnna Katharine Green
ISBN1402170122
• 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,...
Trent's Last Case
AuthorE.C. Bentley
ISBN0755103270
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...
The Middle Temple Murder
AuthorJ.S. Fletcher
ISBN0486239101
All this led up to the appearance of Mr. Aylmore, M.P., in the witness-box. And Spargo knew and felt that it was that appearance for which the crowded court was waiting. Thanks to his own vivid and realistic specials in the Watchman, everybody there had already become well and thoroughly acquainted with...
The House Of A Thousand Candles
AuthorMeredith Nicholson
ISBN1406835285
1905. Nicholson lived and traveled extensively in Indiana and it was a rich resource for his writing. The House of a Thousand Candles provides readers with the view of an outsider coming to Indiana. The book begins: Pickering's letter bringing news of my grandfather's death found me at Naples early...
The House Without a Key
AuthorEarl Derr Biggers
ISBN0445402199
Charlie Chan is back!

Earl Derr Biggers' crackling six-volume series featuring the clever, chubby Chinese Detective of the Honolulu Police Department, is coming back into print.

Biggers brings Honolulu to life with his deft descriptions of the landscape and its hybrid ethnic...
The Roman Hat Mystery
AuthorEllery Queen
ISBN0451084705
A fine silk custom top-hat is missing from a crooked lawyer who was poisoned by lead alcohol in the Roman theater at the close of the second act, 9:55 pm. Inspector Richard Q, sneezing snuff; a thin, multi-faced, small "Old Man"; and the Inspector's large writer son Ellery, puffing cigarettes, investigate....
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu
AuthorSax Rohmer
ISBN0857686038
London, 1913—the era of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, and the Invisible Man. A time of shadows, secret societies, and dens filled with opium addicts. Into this world comes the most fantastic emissary of evil society has ever known… Dr. Fu-Manchu.

Denis Nayland Smith pursues his quarry across...
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