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9 best books like The Scoop and Behind the Screen (Julian Symons): Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novels: ABC Murders / Cards on the Table / Death on the Nile / Murder on the Orient Express / Thirteen at Dinner, Doctor Syn, At the Villa Rose, The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot, The Floating Admiral, Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories, Giant's Bread, The Once and Future Spy, Hag's Nook

Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novels: ABC Murders / Cards on the Table / Death on the Nile / Murder on the Orient Express / Thirteen at Dinner
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0517309769
Perfect collection for any Agatha Christie newbie! Avenel Books have put together the very best Hercule Poirot stories in one collection. The stories found here are "Death on the Nile", "Murder on the Orient Express", "The ABC Murders", "Cards on the Table", and "Thirteen at Dinner". The only title...
Doctor Syn
AuthorRussell Thorndike
Posing as a respectable vicar in Dymchurch at the turn of the 18th century, Dr. Syn is actually the retired pirate Captain Clegg. Clegg, believed hanged in Rye, is no longer being sought by the authorities. However, country life proves too tame for the good "Dr. Syn," and his attention turns to smuggling....
At the Villa Rose
AuthorA.E.W. Mason
ISBN0881841110
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",...
The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot
AuthorAnne Hart
ISBN0425122743
(At the outset - read this only if you are a diehard Poirot fan, like me; and after you have finished all the novels and stories. The book is remarkably spoiler-free, but there is an off-chance you may guess the solution to a few of the stories.)

Some fictional characters become larger than life...
The Floating Admiral
AuthorDorothy L. Sayers
Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the...
Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories
AuthorAgatha Christie Mallowan
ISBN0553351044
A must for every Christie fan, this facsimile edition was published in 2014. It includes six stories and five stories first published under Star over Bethlehem, illustrated by Elsie Wrigley by Collins in 1965. This special edition also includes A Masque from Italy, Seven ballads and eighteen poems...
Giant's Bread
AuthorMary Westmacott
In all honesty, the back of the book is a little misleading:
"Vernon Deyre is a sensitive and brilliant musician, even a genius. But there is a high price to be paid for his talent, especially by his family and the two women in his life. His sheltered childhood in the home he loves has not prepared Vernon...
The Once and Future Spy
AuthorRobert Littell
ISBN0142004057
By national bestselling author, Robert Littell, whose most recent novel, The Company, received rave reviews across the nation, The Once and Future Spy is finally back in print. This is Littell at the top of his form, constructing a tale of espionage and counterespionage that reveal the dirty tricks...
Hag's Nook
AuthorJohn Dickson Carr
ISBN1568659555
In his detecting debut, larger than life lexicographer Dr. Gideon Fell is entertaining young American college graduate Tad Rampole at Yew Cottage, Fell's charming home in the English countryside. Within sight of his study window is the ruin of Chatterham Prison, perched high on a precipice known...
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