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What to read after “The Poisoned Chocolates Case” by Anthony Berkeley: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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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.
2
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.
3
The Nine Tailors
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1934
Same genre: “Detective fiction” and “Golden Age crime”
- 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.
4
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.
5
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.
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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.
7
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie · 1920
Same genre: “Detective fiction” and “Golden Age crime”
- Eccentric Detective
When wealthy Emily Inglethorp is fatally poisoned at her country estate, the household is sealed off with a killer among the guests. Captain Hastings, home from the war, brings in his old acquaintance Hercule Poirot, a Belgian refugee detective, to work out who could have reached her locked bedroom.
8
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.
9
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk · 1996
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
- Twist Ending
Insomniac and alienated, a nameless narrator meets a charismatic soap salesman named Tyler Durden and helps found an underground fight club that grows into something far larger. As the club spreads, the narrator's life and sense of self begin to come apart.
10
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata · 2016
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
Keiko has worked at the same Tokyo convenience store for eighteen years and is content there, until the people around her begin pressuring her to want a normal life. Deadpan and sharp, the novel follows her attempt to perform the life others expect, by staging a relationship she does not want.
11
The Final Girl Support Group
Grady Hendrix · 2021
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
- Twist Ending
Six women who each survived a famous mass murder meet in a therapist's group to cope with the aftermath. When one of them is killed, the group's most guarded member goes on the run to learn who is hunting them and why their old cases keep being reopened.
12
Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty · 2014
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
- Twist Ending
Three mothers at a coastal school become friends while a death at a school event draws nearer. Their polished lives hide abusive marriages, old grudges and rumour, and the night of the fundraiser forces the truth into the open.