Books like Face to face by Ellery Queen

A collection of twelve short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, first published in The Strand Magazine (1891‑92) and compiled in 1892.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective tale follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate the legend of an undead hound on Dartmoor, revealing secrets that threaten a family’s legacy.

Detective Poirot solves a murder on a short flight from Paris to London, where every passenger, from a cocaine‑addicted countess to a jealous writer, becomes a suspect.

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland York investigates the true identity of King Richard III, challenging the historic image of the notorious Tudor tyrant.

A Botswana-based detective series with Mma Ramotswe solving mysterious cases

When the author Charles Latimer meets a Turkish colonel, he is drawn into the murky underworld of Balkan espionage and crime surrounding the death of the notorious Dimitrios.

Ellery Queen rents the mysterious "Calamity House" in New England, where a vanished banker’s wedding plans and poisoned cocktails create a tangled web of suspicion, leading him to uncover the true culprit.

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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

Munitions magnate King Bendigo hires detective Ellery Queen and homicide detective father Richard Queen to solve threatening letters that reveal a deadly family plot on his private island.

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.

Ellery Queen and his father investigate the mysterious disappearance of a Greek art dealer’s will, uncovering clues tied to a strangled ex‑convict, color‑blindness, a shredded will, and a tiny typing mistake.

Margaret Maron's mystery, Slow Dollar, follows fictional judge Deborah Knott as she navigates a North Carolina case that turns to the intrigue of a circus.

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 young woman in London faces unsettling doubts when her husband hires a strange couple to care for her children during a work assignment.

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.