Books like A Study in Scarlet

1. 

   The Hound of the Baskervilles

   Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902 · Sherlock Holmes #5

   Because same series (Sherlock Holmes #5); also by Arthur Conan Doyle; shares tags: classics, mystery, detective.

   Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.

2. 

   The Mysterious Affair at Styles

   Agatha Christie · 1920 · Hercule Poirot #1

   Because shares tags: mystery, detective, classics.

   Hastings reunites with refugee Poirot at Styles Court after Emily Inglethorp is poisoned in her locked room.

3. 

   Mr. Mercedes

   Stephen King · 2014 · Bill Hodges Trilogy #1

   Because shares tags: crime, mystery, detective.

   Retired Hodges hunts Mercedes killer Brady Hartsfield concert plot.

4. 

   Kiss the Girls

   James Patterson · 1995 · Alex Cross #2

   Because shares tags: crime, mystery, detective.

   Cross hunts Casanova kidnapping women including niece Naomi.

5. 

   1st to Die

   James Patterson · 2001 · Women's Murder Club #1

   Because shares tags: crime, mystery, detective.

   Lindsay, Claire, Cindy and Jill hunt a honeymoon killer terrorizing San Francisco.

6. 

   In the Woods

   Tana French · 2007 · Dublin Murder Squad #1

   Because shares tags: mystery, crime, detective.

   A detective investigates a girl's murder in the woods where his own friends vanished twenty years earlier.

7. 

   Along Came a Spider

   James Patterson · 1993 · Alex Cross #1

   Because shares tags: crime, mystery, detective.

   Detective Alex Cross hunts Gary Soneji after two children vanish from a Washington school and a Lindbergh echo grows.

8. 

   The Cuckoo's Calling

   Robert Galbraith · 2013 · Cormoran Strike #1

   Because shares tags: mystery, crime, detective.

   Broke detective Strike and temp Robin investigate a supermodel's fatal fall in London.

9. 

   Murder on the Orient Express

   Agatha Christie · 1934 · Hercule Poirot #10

   Because shares tags: mystery, classics, detective.

   Poirot is trapped by snow with thirteen strangers after an American is found stabbed in his berth.

10. 

    And Then There Were None

    Agatha Christie · 1939

    Because shares tags: mystery, crime, classics.

    And Then There Were None retold: ten to Soldier Island, rhyme deaths, no one left to tell.

11. 

    Wrong Place Wrong Time

    Gillian McAllister · 2022

    Because shares tags: mystery, crime.

    Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.

12. 

    The Three Musketeers

    Alexandre Dumas · 1844 · The d'Artagnan Romances #1

    Because shares tags: classics, adventure.

    Young dArtagnan joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis to recover the queens diamonds and face Milady.

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