Books like The Dutch shoe mystery by Ellery Queen

Eve Dallas races against time to protect a 9‑year‑old witness after a brutal family massacre in 2059 New York City.

Inspector Hannasyde investigates a poisoned death in the wealthy Matthews family, where each member hides motives as they begin to die one by one.

After a devastating explosion in Paris, famed actress Carole Barber awakens with amnesia and must reconstruct her life from childhood memories to lost loves while battling for survival.

During a mountain vacation, Ellery Queen and his father are trapped by a forest fire at a remote cabin where a doctor, his family, and unusual guests—including conjoined twins—meet a deadly mystery. Queen must solve twin murders while fending off flames.

A light‑hearted children’s book that mixes humor with a focus on shoes.

When novelist Karen Leith is found dead in her Manhattan home, Ellery Queen investigates a crime that ties her life, her father‑son relationship, and a mysterious family history together.

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.

In Ellery Queen’s latest mystery, a summer escape at Spanish Cape turns deadly when a one‑eyed giant kidnaps a heiress and her uncle, leading to a tangled web of blackmail, suicide, and a climactic unmasking of 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.

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.

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 literary thriller about two men living in a world of fiction, words, scenes, characters, and the New York Times bestseller list, featuring a complex plot involving deception, envy, and the power of the written word.

In 1930s Tulsa, Deputy US Marshal Carl Webster hunts bank‑robber Jack Belmont, a young outlaw determined to become a public enemy.

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.