Books like The doorbell rang by Rex Stout

Agatha Christie’s 1939 mystery, first titled Ten Little Niggers, revolves around a deadly puzzle on an isolated island, where a group of millionaires is killed one by one. It was later published as And Then There Were None.

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.

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.

James Ellroy’s hard‑boiled crime novel follows detectives as they unravel Los Angeles’s darkest mystery, the unsolved murder of the Black Dahlia, blending gritty police work with atmospheric noir.

A three-novel Nero Wolfe collection featuring the detectives’ keen wit and New York city intrigue.

Nero Wolfe investigates the murder of his old friend Marko Vukcic, taking him back to Montenegro—where both Yugoslav and Russian communists threaten him and a perilous mountain climb awaits.

When a prized bull and a family feud intersect with a murder, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin investigate a mystery that blends crime, cattle, and a curious young boy’s clues.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

AKA "And Be a Villain"

Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin investigate the death of Isabel Cather, while Orrie Cather, her fiance, fights to clear his name amid secrets and a murder in New York.

A compilation of seven classic Nero Wolfe mysteries featuring the astute detective and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, solving crimes in New York.

Nero Wolfe reluctantly joins forces with young Sally Blount to clear her father's name after a chess club murder, navigating suspects, arsenic, and his own disarray.

Detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin unravel a murder linked to a flower show while confronting a series of threatening poison‑pen letters.

Nero Wolfe is called to solve the murder of a powerful government official scheduled to address a group of millionaires, a case that rattles New York’s business world.

Nero Wolfe reluctantly investigates a kidnapping and a subsequent murder as his client, Mrs. Vail, fears harm to her husband.

A collection of seventeen Rex Stout short stories first published in All-Story Magazine, including his earliest crime fiction and early foreshadowing of the famous Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.