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1.
Murder Your Darlings (Algonquin Round Table #1)
by:
J.J. Murphy
3.38 avg rating β 625 ratings
2.
The Dante Club (The Dante Club, #1)
by:
Matthew Pearl
3.42 avg rating β 42,427 ratings
3.
Nevermore (Edgar Allan Poe Mystery #1)
by:
Harold Schechter
3.83 avg rating β 696 ratings
4.
Drood
by:
Dan Simmons
3.54 avg rating β 17,353 ratings
5.
The Pale Blue Eye
by:
Louis Bayard
3.80 avg rating β 10,133 ratings
6.
An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey, #1)
by:
Nicola Upson
3.53 avg rating β 5,768 ratings
7.
Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor (Jane Austen Mysteries, #1)
by:
Stephanie Barron
3.70 avg rating β 7,398 ratings
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The Tell-Tale Corpse (Edgar Allan Poe Mystery, #4)
by:
Harold Schechter
4.07 avg rating β 97 ratings
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Dodger
by:
Terry Pratchett
3.94 avg rating β 27,642 ratings
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Jane and the Man of the Cloth (Jane Austen Mysteries, #2)
by:
Stephanie Barron
3.87 avg rating β 3,994 ratings
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Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake, #6)
by:
C.J. Sansom
4.43 avg rating β 19,160 ratings
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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
by:
Gyles Brandreth
3.64 avg rating β 3,829 ratings
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The Secret Adventures of Charlotte BrontΓ« (The Secret Adventures of Charlotte BrontΓ« #1)
by:
Laura Joh Rowland
3.23 avg rating β 884 ratings
14.
Peril at Somner House (Daphne du Maurier Mysteries #2)
by:
Joanna Challis
3.42 avg rating β 240 ratings
15.
Two for Sorrow (Josephine Tey, #3)
by:
Nicola Upson
3.61 avg rating β 1,855 ratings
16.
A Line of Blood
by:
Ben McPherson
3.25 avg rating β 1,394 ratings
17.
Angel with Two Faces (Josephine Tey, #2)
by:
Nicola Upson
3.66 avg rating β 2,565 ratings
18.
Louisa and the Crystal Gazer (A Louisa May Alcott Mystery, #3)
by:
Anna Maclean
3.64 avg rating β 103 ratings
18.
Grave Expectations (A Dickens of a Crime #2)
by:
Heather Redmond
3.63 avg rating β 552 ratings
20.
The Problem of the Missing Miss (Charles Dodgson & Arthur Conan Doyle, #1)
by:
Roberta Rogow
3.42 avg rating β 72 ratings
21.
The Weight of Blood
by:
Laura McHugh
3.76 avg rating β 23,021 ratings
22.
The Problem of the Spiteful Spiritualist (Charles Dodgson & Arthur Conan Doyle, #2)
by:
Roberta Rogow
3.42 avg rating β 31 ratings
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The Problem of the Surly Servant (Charles Dodgson & Arthur Conan Doyle, #4)
by:
Roberta Rogow
3.71 avg rating β 24 ratings
24.
The Problem of the Evil Editor (Charles Dodgson & Arthur Conan Doyle, #3)
by:
Roberta Rogow
3.69 avg rating β 29 ratings
24.
Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death
by:
Gyles Brandreth
3.80 avg rating β 1,821 ratings
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Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century
by:
Peter Graham
3.52 avg rating β 4,603 ratings
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The Last Dickens
by:
Matthew Pearl
3.57 avg rating β 7,209 ratings
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Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile (The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries, #3)
by:
Gyles Brandreth
3.73 avg rating β 1,114 ratings
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The Mask of Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe Mystery, #3)
by:
Harold Schechter
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 368 ratings
30.
The Hum Bug (Edgar Allan Poe Mystery, #2)
by:
Harold Schechter
3.73 avg rating β 172 ratings
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The Hoydens and Mr. Dickens: The Strange Affair of the Feminist Phantom
by:
William J. Palmer
3.83 avg rating β 29 ratings
32.
Capote in Kansas: A Ghost Story
by:
Kim Powers
3.16 avg rating β 261 ratings
32.
The Dorothy Parker Murder Case (Jacob Singer, #1)
by:
George Baxt
3.54 avg rating β 111 ratings
32.
The Tale of Hill Top Farm (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, #1)
by:
Susan Wittig Albert
3.93 avg rating β 4,323 ratings
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The Patient's Eyes: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
by:
David Pirie
3.76 avg rating β 739 ratings
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Mad Hatter Summer
by:
Donald Serrell Thomas
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 8 ratings
32.
The Case of the Missing Moonstone (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, #1)
by:
Jordan Stratford
3.86 avg rating β 2,810 ratings
32.
The Last Bookaneer
by:
Matthew Pearl
3.32 avg rating β 3,130 ratings
32.
The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)
by:
Anthony Horowitz
3.93 avg rating β 94,133 ratings
32.
The Murder of Patience Brooke (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Sam Jones #1)
by:
J.C. Briggs
4.05 avg rating β 947 ratings
32.
The Vanished Bride (BrontΓ« Sisters Mystery, #1)
by:
Bella Ellis
3.76 avg rating β 4,509 ratings
32.
Fear in the Sunlight (Josephine Tey, #4)
by:
Nicola Upson
3.61 avg rating β 1,650 ratings
32.
The Body Under the Piano (Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen, #1)
by:
Marthe Jocelyn
3.91 avg rating β 1,980 ratings
32.
The List of Seven (The List of Seven, #1)
by:
Mark Frost
3.93 avg rating β 3,499 ratings
32.
I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died (An Emily Dickinson Mystery, #2)
by:
Amanda Flower
4.05 avg rating β 882 ratings
46.
Bedlam (The Secret Adventures of Charlotte BrontΓ«, #2)
by:
Laura Joh Rowland
3.42 avg rating β 220 ratings
46.
The Dracula Dossier: A Novel of Suspense
by:
James Reese
3.06 avg rating β 482 ratings
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Keep Calm
by:
Mike Binder
3.40 avg rating β 510 ratings
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The Severed Streets (Shadow Police, #2)
by:
Paul Cornell
4.01 avg rating β 3,511 ratings
46.
Death at Hungerford Stairs (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Sam Jones, #2)
by:
J.C. Briggs
4.28 avg rating β 497 ratings
46.
A Talent for Murder (Agatha Christie #1)
by:
Andrew Wilson
3.50 avg rating β 2,756 ratings
46.
The Interpretation of Murder
by:
Jed Rubenfeld
3.57 avg rating β 15,839 ratings
53.
Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House (Jane Austen Mysteries, #6)
by:
Stephanie Barron
3.96 avg rating β 2,588 ratings
53.
Those We Left Behind (DCI Serena Flanagan #1)
by:
Stuart Neville
3.79 avg rating β 3,502 ratings
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Seduction (Reincarnationist, #5)
by:
M.J. Rose
3.79 avg rating β 1,663 ratings
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Das FrΓ€ulein von Scuderi
by:
E.T.A. Hoffmann
3.29 avg rating β 4,067 ratings
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The Quickening and the Dead (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Sam Jones #4)
by:
J.C. Briggs
4.46 avg rating β 324 ratings
53.
The Tale of Holly How (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, #2)
by:
Susan Wittig Albert
4.04 avg rating β 2,214 ratings
59.
Murder on the Cliffs (Daphne du Maurier Mysteries, #1)
by:
Joanna Challis
3.33 avg rating β 565 ratings
59.
Jane and the Stillroom Maid (Jane Austen Mysteries, #5)
by:
Stephanie Barron
3.95 avg rating β 2,669 ratings
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The Devil and Ben Franklin
by:
Theodore Mathieson
3.33 avg rating β 6 ratings
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On the Blue Train
by:
Kristel Thornell
3.08 avg rating β 139 ratings
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Oscar Wilde and the Return of Jack the Ripper: An Oscar Wilde Mystery
by:
Gyles Brandreth
3.83 avg rating β 771 ratings
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The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, #3)
by:
Susan Wittig Albert
4.09 avg rating β 1,979 ratings
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Jane and the Genius of the Place (Jane Austen Mysteries, #4)
by:
Stephanie Barron
3.90 avg rating β 2,635 ratings
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Hell's Gate (Mollel, #2)
by:
Richard Crompton
3.49 avg rating β 229 ratings
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Black Drop (Sage Adair, #4)
by:
S.L. Stoner
3.89 avg rating β 28 ratings
65.
The Crime Writer
by:
Jill Dawson
3.43 avg rating β 802 ratings
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The Detective and Mr. Dickens: Being an Account of the Macbeth Murders and the Strange Events Surrounding Them
by:
William J. Palmer
3.22 avg rating β 172 ratings
65.
The Revenant of Thraxton Hall: The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
by:
Vaughn Entwistle
3.93 avg rating β 821 ratings
71.
Louisa and the Missing Heiress (A Louisa May Alcott Mystery, #1)
by:
Anna Maclean
3.52 avg rating β 275 ratings
71.
Jane and the Wandering Eye (Jane Austen Mysteries, #3)
by:
Stephanie Barron
3.86 avg rating β 2,847 ratings
71.
Alice and the Assassin (Alice Roosevelt Mystery #1)
by:
R.J. Koreto
3.58 avg rating β 299 ratings
71.
Summons to Murder (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Jones #9)
by:
J.C. Briggs
4.53 avg rating β 230 ratings
71.
A Christmas Carol Murder (A Dickens of a Crime #3)
by:
Heather Redmond
3.51 avg rating β 985 ratings
76.
All the Old Knives
by:
Olen Steinhauer
3.68 avg rating β 6,521 ratings
76.
Murder and the First Lady (Eleanor Roosevelt, #1)
by:
Elliott Roosevelt
3.73 avg rating β 555 ratings
76.
Murder by Magic: A Charles Dickens short story
by:
J.C. Briggs
4.21 avg rating β 73 ratings
79.
Louisa and the Country Bachelor (A Louisa May Alcott Mystery, #2)
by:
Anna Maclean
3.50 avg rating β 123 ratings
79.
Lacy Eye
by:
Jessica Treadway
3.63 avg rating β 4,113 ratings
79.
Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1)
by:
Susan Elia MacNeal
3.75 avg rating β 33,753 ratings
79.
The Angel (The Grand & Batchelor Victorian Mysteries #3)
by:
M.J. Trow
3.54 avg rating β 69 ratings
79.
The Pickwick Murders (A Dickens of a Crime #4)
by:
Heather Redmond
3.48 avg rating β 279 ratings
84.
Chasing the Devil: A Dorothy Parker Mystery
by:
Agata Stanford
4.05 avg rating β 21 ratings
84.
The Good Girl
by:
Mary Kubica
3.81 avg rating β 271,375 ratings
84.
Artie Conan Doyle and the Gravediggers' Club (Artie Conan Doyle Mysteries, #1)
by:
Robert J. Harris
3.63 avg rating β 76 ratings
84.
Arthur & George
by:
Julian Barnes
3.72 avg rating β 18,623 ratings
84.
A Tale of Two Murders (A Dickens of a Crime, #1)
by:
Heather Redmond
3.54 avg rating β 1,317 ratings
89.
The Broadway Murders (Dorothy Parker Mysteries, #1)
by:
Agata Stanford
3.49 avg rating β 37 ratings
89.
A Possibility of Violence (Avraham Avraham #2)
by:
D.A. Mishani
3.66 avg rating β 718 ratings
89.
Arthur & George
by:
Julian Barnes
3.72 avg rating β 18,623 ratings
89.
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
by:
Marie Benedict
3.74 avg rating β 47,001 ratings
93.
Mystic Mah Jong: A Dorothy Parker Mystery (Dorothy Parker Mysteries Book 3)
by:
Agata Stanford
4.07 avg rating β 14 ratings
93.
She's Leaving Home (Breen and Tozer, #1)
by:
William Shaw
3.77 avg rating β 1,523 ratings
93.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Harry Houdini in The Adventure of the Spook House
by:
C. Michael Forsyth
4.23 avg rating β 30 ratings
93.
The Chinese Puzzle (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Jones #8)
by:
J.C. Briggs
4.46 avg rating β 206 ratings
97.
Tooth for a Tooth (DCI Gilchrist, #3)
by:
Frank Muir
4.03 avg rating β 822 ratings
97.
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Nicholas Meyer Holmes Pastiches #1)
by:
Nicholas Meyer
4.13 avg rating β 23,621 ratings
97.
The Redemption Murders (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Jones #6)
by:
J.C. Briggs
4.41 avg rating β 217 ratings
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At Midnight In Venice (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Sam Jones #5)
by:
J.C. Briggs
4.32 avg rating β 270 ratings
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