Books like The French powder mystery by Ellery Queen

Myron Bolitar, a sports agent, is drawn into a murder investigation involving a young tennis star and her former fiancé.

Ellery Queen investigates the murder of financier Solly Spaeth amid a tangled web of stockbrokers, family rivalries, and auction intrigue.

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 thief and his gang are hired to do a reality TV show, but their next score will be captured on camera.

Lt. Peter Decker is stunned when a relative is found murdered in a Manhattan hotel and his niece disappears. Racing across the country, he dives into New York's underworld, confronting crime, secrets, and his own faith.

A bumbling thief, Dortmunder, returns from the wild, sparking a police chase and a series of crimes across the city.

Reid Bennett, a former cop, moves to a quiet Canadian town to solve a murder case but quickly realizes he must adapt to local customs to protect the killer.

A mysterious crime unraveling through puzzles, family secrets, and a deadly numeric obsession.

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 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.

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.

An old friend of Dortmunder's falls into a mysterious cemetery, leading to a dangerous chase through a New York City casino.

A detective named Dortmunder is burglarized by a billionaire and must find a lucky ring to clear his name

When a fashion designer is murdered in a Park Avenue penthouse, Detective Richard Queen, aided by his father, probes the suspicious McKell family—businessman Ashton, wife Lutetia, and son Dane—to uncover the killer.

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.

Lieutenant Sigrid Harald investigates the murder of a relic of New York's Gilded Age in this atmospheric police procedural mystery set in Gramercy Park.

Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigates a mysterious murder in the Yorkshire Dales, while Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, once a lover, comes to help and uncover the darker aspects of his family's past.

When an explosion kills wealthy industrialist Gregory Van Dyke, Detective Frank Malloy is dispatched to investigate an anarchist plot. He must work with his estranged love, midwife Sarah Brandt, as they chase a dangerous killer in 1930s New York.

A singer's album debuts, but her debut album is kidnapped.

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.

An ex-cop, John Dortmunder, reluctantly joins the criminal underworld to recover a stolen treasure, facing impossible odds and a mysterious past.