Books like Best of Ellery Queen by Ellery Queen

When tenant Jennie Brice disappears, leaving only a blood‑stained rope and towel, landlady Mrs. Pittman must investigate a likely murder without a body in the early 1913 Allegheny City setting.

Seventeen short stories about death.

John Keller is a professional hit‑man whose quiet New York life turns deadly when a phone call sends him halfway across the country to eliminate a target. His efficiency masks deep loneliness and self‑questioning.

Ellery Queen returns to the Catskill town of Wrightsville to investigate a 12‑year‑old murder amid the town’s troubled Fox family.

A collection of ten short stories and five poems by Edgar Allan Poe, featuring mystery, horror, and suspense elements.

Detective Perry Mason investigates a woman's blackmailed fortune at a dinner party.

When William Porter and his wife inherit a remote lakeside manor steeped in haunting rumors, they must confront a shadowy apparition that may be a ghost or a dangerous intruder.

1 Trumpetbird in the Cop Car by Janwillem van de Wetering 2 Boots by Antonia Fraser 3 Old P by H.R.F. Keating 4 Eavesdropping by Ron Goulart 5 Happy Christmas by Robert Barnard 6 Drown Her on Saturday by Celia Fremlin 7 Kill before Publication by Martin Russell 8 The Film Festival Assignment by Edward D. Hoch 9 Have a Nice Death by George Baxt 10 A Little Innocent Matchmaking by Ernest Savage 11 The Question by Stanley Ellin 12 The Old Barn on the Pond by Ursula Curtiss 13 Her Heart's Home by Mary McMullen 14 The Phonograph Murder by Helen Reilly 15 The Night Calhoun was Off Duty by Thomas Walsh 16 The Missing Mortgagee by R. Austin Freeman 17 The Beauty in that House by Florence V. Mayberry 18 The Mysterious Death in Percy Street by Baroness Orczy 19 The Shop that Exchanged Evils by Lord Dunsany 20 The Neighbours by John Galsworthy 21 Who's the Blonde? by John D. MacDonald 22 In a Country Churchyard by Robert L. Fish 23 Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich

When a mysterious man is found dead in a hotel anteroom, a wealthy publisher’s social circle becomes a tangled web of secrets, jewels, and stolen stamps. Ellery Queen must untangle the bizarre clues to reveal the killer.

When Mrs. French is found dead in her department store’s showroom, Detective Ellery Queen and his father must untangle a web of corporate intrigue and familial secrets to uncover the killer hidden behind the glamorous façade of New York’s most celebrated retail empire.

A curated anthology of fifteen detective and mystery short stories by renowned authors such as James Thurber, Roald Dahl, Ogden Nash, and W. Somerset Maugham, compiled by Damon Knight.

It’s Christmas in Chicago, and Inspector Richard Queen is enjoying a busman’s holiday at a conference on gangland violence—but his son, amateur sleuth Ellery, is bored silly. Until, that is, Ellery reads of an unusual killing in rural Arroyo, West Virginia: A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified. Ellery hustles his father into his roadster and heads east, since there is nothing he’d like better for Christmas than a juicy, gruesome puzzle. When the Queens arrive in Arroyo, they learn that the victim was an eccentric atheist, but not the sort to make enemies. What initially looks to be the work of a sadistic cult turns out to be something far more sinister. In the months ahead, more victims will turn up all over the world—all killed in the same horrifying manner. It will take several bodies before Queen divines the clue that unlocks the mystery of the Christmas crucifixion.

A sweeping anthology of detective tales set through history, from ancient Egypt to the Regency era, featuring legendary sleuths like Rosamond, Judge Dee, and Sister Fidelma.

Detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin unravel a murder linked to a flower show while confronting a series of threatening poison‑pen letters.

Perry Mason is hired to get IOUs from two crooked gamblers who are willing to sell them to the highest bidder. The investigation reveals a body, leading to a series of legal tricks to keep the clients and the law away.

In the second act of a theatre production, a blackmailer is found murdered in the back row. Inspector Queen and his son Ellery investigate, focusing on the victim’s missing top hat.

A thrilling anthology where 23 bestselling suspense authors pit their iconic detectives and mystery characters in eleven vivid, competitive face‑offs, blending classic crime intrigue with fresh twists.