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Books like Hide and seek, or, The mystery of Mary Grice
Loved Hide and seek, or, The mystery of Mary Grice by Wilkie Collins? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from mystery & thriller, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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The Sign of Four
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are engaged by Mary Morstan to investigate the mysterious death of her father and a series of pearls left for her by an unknown benefactor. The case leads to a stolen Indian treasure, a pact of vengeance and one of Holmes's most elaborate investigations. The novel also introduces Watson's courtship of Mary, who becomes his wife.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The classic short stories that made Holmes immortal; the best place to meet the great detective.
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Rebecca
A new bride is haunted by her husband's glamorous dead wife in a brooding country house; gothic suspense at its finest.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express snowbound in Yugoslavia and wakes to find a fellow passenger has been murdered. Everyone on the train is a suspect. Christie's most famous novel turns the conventions of the whodunit inside out with a solution that raises genuine moral questions about justice and collective vengeance.
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And Then There Were None
Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island off the Devon coast — each convicted in a recording of a crime they are believed to have escaped justice for. One by one they are murdered. Christie's bestselling detective novel is the best-selling crime novel of all time and the foundational locked-room mystery.
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Gone Girl
A wife vanishes and her husband becomes the prime suspect; the twisty thriller that redefined the genre.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist teams up with the brilliant, damaged hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate a 40-year-old disappearance from a wealthy Swedish family — and uncovers something far darker. Larsson's novel launched the Millennium series and introduced one of the most compelling anti-heroines in crime fiction.
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The Silence of the Lambs
A young FBI trainee bargains with a brilliant killer to catch another; a flawless, terrifying thriller.
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The Big Sleep
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by an elderly General to handle a blackmailer — and finds himself in a Los Angeles of corruption, murder and double-crossing that extends far beyond the original case. Chandler's first novel introduced one of fiction's iconic protagonists and established the hardboiled detective as an American archetype.
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The Silent Patient
Alicia Berenson, a famous painter, shoots her husband five times and never speaks another word. Theo Faber, a psychotherapist, becomes obsessed with treating her and uncovering why. Michaelides's debut psychological thriller — with one of the most discussed twists in recent crime fiction — became one of the bestselling thrillers of its decade.