Books like “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd”

What to read after “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” by Agatha Christie: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
The Nine Tailors
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1934
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
- Small Town Secrets
- Eccentric Detective
Lord Peter Wimsey is stranded by floods in the fenland village of Fenchurch St Paul over New Year. Months later a battered body is found in a newly opened grave, and Wimsey must read the village's bell-ringing lore and an old jewel theft to give the dead man a name.
2
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins · 1868
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
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.
3
The Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie · 1930
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
Colonel Protheroe is widely disliked in the village of St Mary Mead, so when he is found shot in the vicarage study almost everyone has a motive. As the police chase obvious suspects, the observant spinster Miss Marple follows the quiet gossip and small deceits of her neighbours to the truth.
4
Whose Body?
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1923
Same genre: “Detective fiction” and “Golden Age mystery”
- 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.
5
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie · 1934
Same genre: “Detective fiction” and “Golden Age mystery”
- 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.
6
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
Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz · 2016
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
Editor Susan Ryeland receives the manuscript of the ninth Alan Conway mystery, but the last chapters are missing and the author is dead. As she reads the country-house puzzle inside the book, the writer's real quarrels and the missing pages draw her into a case of her own.
8
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.
9
The House of Silk
Anthony Horowitz · 2011
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
- Eccentric Detective
- Twist Ending
Sherlock Holmes is asked to guard a London art dealer who is being followed, and the case opens onto two mysteries: a gang known as the House of Silk, and a crime so dangerous that Watson can only set it down years later, in a final untold adventure.
10
Too Many Cooks
Rex Stout · 1938
Same genre: “Detective fiction” and “Golden Age mystery”
- Eccentric Detective
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.
11
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.
12
The Innocence of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton · 1911
Same genre: “Detective fiction”
- Eccentric Detective
- Twist Ending
A quiet Catholic priest with a mild manner and an eye for human nature solves impossible crimes that baffle the police. Across twelve stories he uncovers murderers, thieves and impostors, often relying on ordinary details that everyone else has overlooked.