Three Doors to Death

5 best books like Three Doors to Death (Rex Stout): Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback / Double Indemnity (screenplay) / Selected Essays and Letters, The Last Coincidence, The Case of the Blonde Bonanza, Out on the Cutting Edge, Republic

Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback / Double Indemnity (screenplay) / Selected Essays and Letters

Author	Raymond Chandler
ISBN	1883011086

With humor, along with an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Raymond Chandler created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both crime writing and the American language.

Written during...

The Last Coincidence

Author	Robert Goldsborough
ISBN	0553286161

It turns out Archie Goodwin's girlfriend Lily Rowan had a niece called Noreen. The latter started dating a guy who had a fairly nasty reputation despite the fact that she was supposed to be very level-headed and smart.

She was sexually assaulted by him and after a while Archie got a wind of it....

The Case of the Blonde Bonanza

Author	Erle Stanley Gardner
ISBN	0345378776

Della Street was visiting her aunt and invited her boss for the weekend hoping the guy would finally get a long-due break. To bait a hook she promised Perry Mason a mystery; the mystery he got. There was a curvaceous blond on the beach where Della was spending her leisure time.

The blond would get...

Out on the Cutting Edge

Author	Lawrence Block
ISBN	0752837494

This is a typical Matt Scudder mystery: slow as molasses, slim on plot, very grim—and totally absorbing.

Scudder—the unlicensed private detective who “does favors” for money—has two cases to solve: 1) the disappearance of young actress/waitress Paula Hoeldtke from Muncie...

Republic

Author	Charles Sheehan-Miles
ISBN	0979411424

A few years in our future, Ken Murphy is a National Guard Colonel and senior manager at a factory in tranquil Highview, West Virginia. When the local economy is thrown into a tailspin by a plant shutdown, Murphy is thrown out of work, with no way to pay for medical care for his son.

In an attempt to...