Books like “The House of Silk”

What to read after “The House of Silk” by Anthony Horowitz: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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A Study in Scarlet Women
Sherry Thomas · 2016
Same genre: “Detective fiction” and “Historical mystery”
- Victorian London Atmosphere
- Eccentric Detective
Too clever for Victorian society and blamed when three people die, Charlotte Holmes flees to London and takes the name Sherlock Holmes. With a kind widow, a police inspector and a man who loves her, she works the case while hiding who she really is.
2
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
- Victorian London Atmosphere
- Eccentric Detective
Twelve stories follow London's most observant detective and his friend Dr Watson as they untangle impossible crimes, strange clients and quiet suburban mysteries from their rooms on Baker Street.
3
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie · 1926
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
- Eccentric Detective
- Twist Ending
In the village of King's Abbot, the wealthy Roger Ackroyd is stabbed hours after learning a secret. Hercule Poirot, retired nearby to grow marrows, is drawn into the case, where everyone, including the narrator, seems to be telling less than the whole truth.
4
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins · 1868
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
- Eccentric Detective
- Twist Ending
A priceless yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple is left to Rachel Verinder on her birthday, and vanishes the same night. Family, servants, doctors and a famous detective each tell their part of the story as suspicion moves from one person to another.
5
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe · 1841
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
- Eccentric Detective
- Twist Ending
In a locked Paris apartment, a woman and her daughter are found brutally murdered with no sign of how the killer entered or left. The reclusive, eccentric C. Auguste Dupin takes up the case and solves it by pure reasoning, in the story often called the first detective tale.
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The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Anthony Berkeley · 1929
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
- Eccentric Detective
- Twist Ending
A box of poisoned chocolates kills a man at his club, and the police can find no culprit. Six members of the Crimes Circle, an armchair detective society, each offer a different solution to the same murder, until amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham tests their theories against the facts.
7
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad · 1907
Similar setting: “Victorian London Atmosphere”
- Victorian London Atmosphere
In late-Victorian London, a shopkeeper who is also a paid spy for a foreign power is ordered to carry out a bombing. The people around him, including his wife and her vulnerable brother, are pulled into the consequences of a plot he cannot control.
8
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie · 1934
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
- Eccentric Detective
- Twist Ending
A snowdrift halts the Orient Express, and by morning an American passenger is found stabbed in his locked compartment. With the train stranded, Hercule Poirot questions thirteen passengers whose accounts do not add up, and uncovers the threads of an old crime.
9
Whose Body?
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1923
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
- Eccentric Detective
Lord Peter Wimsey is intrigued when a corpse is found in a bathtub wearing nothing but a pair of gold pince-nez, while a financier has gone missing. Aided by his butler Bunter and a Scotland Yard inspector, he works out how the body came to be there.
10
The Moving Toyshop
Edmund Crispin · 1946
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
- Eccentric Detective
- Twist Ending
Poet Richard Cadogan arrives in Oxford, finds a woman's body in a toyshop and is knocked out. When he returns with the police the shop has become a grocer's. With his friend, eccentric professor Gervase Fen, he hunts for the vanished corpse and the trick behind the impossible scene.
11
Too Many Cooks
Rex Stout · 1938
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
- Eccentric Detective
- Secret Society
Nero Wolfe is lured out of his brownstone to a gathering of the world's great chefs, and one of them is poisoned. When the killer turns toward Wolfe himself, he and Archie Goodwin must sort through the guests of a secretive culinary society to name the murderer.
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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
Theodora Goss · 2017
Same genre: “Historical mystery”
- Victorian London Atmosphere
- Secret Society
Mary Jekyll, orphaned and poor, sets out to find her father's old colleague, the missing Doctor Hyde. Instead she gathers a family of young women who are the daughters or creations of famous scientists, from Moreau and Jekyll to Rappaccini. Together they investigate a series of murders in Victorian London.