Books like The rasp by Philip MacDonald

When Belgian detective Hercule Poirot returns to the English village of King's Abbot, he confronts the murder of industrialist Roger Ackroyd, unraveling a web of family secrets and hidden motives that reveal the culprit was nobody he expected.

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.

Hard‑boiled detective Sam Spade races to recover a priceless, gem‑encrusted statuette while double‑crosses and danger creep from every corner.

Miss Jane Marple investigates the mysterious shooting of magistrate Colonel Protheroe in St. Mary Mead, uncovering secrets that ordinary villagers could not.

A pioneering English detective story in which a priceless diamond, once stolen from a Hindu idol and presented to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, disappears again, sparking intrigue and danger.

On a luxury Nile cruise, the glamorous Linnet Ridgeway is found murdered, and intrepid detective Hercule Poirot must uncover the truth amid intrigue, secrets, and false leads.

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.

A sprawling examination of ambition, love, and crime in early 20th‑century New York, revealing how a young man's rise is tainted by social class, ambition, and tragedy.

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

Inspector Alan Grant investigates a mysterious murder on a night train to London, where a dying man's unfinished poem—about talking beasts and singing sands—clues him to a hidden conspiracy.

Nick and Nora Charles navigate a New York murder mystery with wit and charm, turning a hard‑boiled investigation into a sophisticated comedy of manners.

At Castrevenford school, English professor Gervase Fen is asked to present at Speech Day, but the night before the event two staff members are found dead. Fen must unravel student romances, a kidnapping and a missing Shakespeare manuscript while the headmaster looks to him for justice.

When a London cinema box office girl is entrapped by a sinister trio, a young solicitor named Joseph French must unravel the murders of multiple women to bring the culprits to justice.

Professor Charles Grimaud is challenged by a stranger who claims to have risen from his own coffin. When the stranger dies violently during a snowstorm, Dr. Gideon Fell investigates a killer who leaves no footprints.

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.

Four classic 1950s mystery novels featuring Ross Macdonald’s skilled private investigator Lew Archer, set in a glittering yet enigmatic Southern California and blending detective work with deep psychological insight.

In *The Link*, a murder in a village saloon leads Colonel Anthony Gethryn through a web of alibis, romance, and hidden motives to uncover an ingeniously constructed crime.

A curated anthology of detective, mystery and short horror stories featuring classic authors and atmospheric suspense.

LAPD detective Hieronymous (aka Harry) Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. Called out on a routine drug overdose case, Bosch soon realises that the victim found lying in the Mullholland Dam drainpipe is no accident case. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam and Harry swears to bring the killer to justice.