Books like The Schirmer inheritance by Eric Ambler

Walter Hartright, a drawing master, becomes entangled with Laura Fairlie, Sir Percival Glyde, and the scheming Count Fosco as questions of identity and madness intertwine in 19th‑century England.

In Dickens’s sweeping novel, the protracted Jarndyce and Jarndyce case in the Court of Chancery pulls together a disparate cast— from heirs torn by legal costs to a mysterious ward, a cunning lawyer, and a destitute street sweeper— exposing London’s social decay.

Set during the French Indochina War, the novel follows British journalist Thomas Fowler, his mistress Phuong, and American idealist Pyle, whose ambitions and tragic fate reshape their lives amid political turmoil.

Richard Hannay, a bored Londoner who returns from South Africa, is thrust into a high‑stakes espionage chase after a murder tied to an assassination plot, forcing him to flee to Scotland and outwit his pursuers.

Richard Hannay and three fellow adventurers travel through war‑torn Europe, disguising themselves to thwart a German plot while confronting dangers in Germany, Constantinople, and the Russian border.

John le Carré’s thriller follows a former spy who infiltrates an international arms and drug cartel, revealing the dark underbelly of global crime and the moral ambiguity that defines modern espionage.

The Third Man, a novella by Graham Greene, follows the mysterious black‑market trader Harry Lime in post‑war Vienna, where he is believed to be dead.

Her weapons: money and power. Her target: the most dangerous man in the world—her own son. Elizabeth Wyckham Scarlatti has a plan, a desperate, last-minute gamble designed to save the world from her son, Ulster, an incalculably cruel man who is working for the Third Reich under the name of Heinrich Kroeger. If Elizabeth cannot stop him, Ulster will give Hitler the most powerful instrument on earth. In Washington, word is received that an elite member of the Nazi High Command is willing to defect and divulge information that will shorten the war. But his defection entails the release of the ultra-top-secret file on the Scarlatti Inheritance - a file whose contents will destroy many of the Western world's greatest and most illustrious reputations if they are made known...THE SCARLATTI INHERITANCE is a spellbinding story of international terror and intrigue, greed and cunning, suspense and murder.

A satirical Cold‑War espionage thriller in which a bungling British spy agency struggles to prove a Communist defector’s claim of a Soviet missile build‑up in East Germany, while battling a rival, better‑organized German intelligence service.

On a relaxing Riviera getaway, Josef Vadassy’s quiet holiday turns into a tense espionage thriller as photographs he drops off at a chemist draw suspicion in pre‑World War II Paris.

Penelope Keeling reflects on a bohemian childhood, wartime romance, and a priceless family portrait as her children debate its future.

A TV journalist on the verge of stardom becomes obsessed with finding her birth mother while covering a high‑profile murder trial, uncovering family secrets that threaten the inheritance of a wealthy, contested estate.

Jason Bourne, a deep‑cover operative with no memory, is rescued after a beachwreck and discovers a bank account embedded in his body that leads him to Switzerland and the truth about his past.

A satiric masterpiece by Charles Dickens, *Our Mutual Friend* explores the themes of money, poverty, and social change in 19th-century London.

Nelson DeMille’s thriller follows Wall‑Street lawyer John Sutter as he confronts a Mafia don on Long Island’s Gold Coast, weaving friendship, seduction and betrayal into a suspenseful legal drama.

In 1940, British engineer Graham is dispatched to Turkey to work on a naval project, only to become a target of hostile forces intent on eliminating him.

Caterina Pellegrini, a Venetian-born baroque opera scholar, is sent back to Venice to examine two locked trunks thought to hold the papers of a deceased baroque composer, uncovering inheritance disputes and surprising secrets.

John le Carré’s Cold‑War spy thriller follows British agent Alec Leamas as he takes one last perilous assignment to outwit East German intelligence.