18 books like Rex (Time Soldiers)

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The Mystery of the Strange Messages Enid Blyton · 1969 · ★ 4.2 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Mr. Goon, the policeman, can't understand it. Messages keep coming to him, popping up all over the place. But who is sending them? He thinks it is Fatty, playing tricks on him but this is the first the Five Find-Outers have heard about the messages. It all becomes a remarkable mystery, and one which the Five just have to solve. Shares Adventure, Children's fiction

The House Without a Key Earl Derr Biggers · 2015 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Published in 1925, The House Without a Key introduces the kindly detective Charlie Chan, conceived by Earl Derr Biggers as a counter to the “Yellow Peril” stereotypes common in the era’s society. John Quincy Winterslip, having been sent by his family to convince his aunt to return to Boston, arrives in Honolulu to find that a rich family member with a shady past has been murdered. Detective… Shares Adventure

Blue Hand Edgar Wallace · 1923 · ★ 4.1 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Jim Steele, a clerk for a prominent London attorney, has the distasteful task of assisting a notorious client, Digby Groat, who stands to inherit the Jonathan Danton fortune. Danton’s infant daughter and closest heir, Dorothy, was thought to have died in a boating accident twenty years ago. Adding to the mystery, Dorothy’s mother, Lady Mary Danton, also disappeared around the same time. Jim… Shares Adventure

The Emperor's candlesticks Baroness Emmuska Orczy · 1908 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899) is a historical novel by Baroness Orczy and was her first book as an author. Shares Adventure

There will be time Poul Anderson · 1972 · ★ 3.7 · 189p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Time Travel with this book.

The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything John D. MacDonald · 1600 · ★ 4.0 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Challenging This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2446193W. Shares Time Travel

The Heads of Cerberus Francis Stevens · 1952 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Time Travel with this book.

Crossover Judith Eubank · 1984 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Beauty, romance, suspense: Judith Eubank handles a timeless mystery with a light, sure touch. CROSSOVER evokes the brooding atmospheres of Daphne du Maurier with the wit, intelligence, and sensibility of Dorothy Sayers. As she adapts to British university life, Meredith Blake, a young American scholar, discovers that Edwards Hall is not the same for her as it is for the others. For her, it is… Shares Time Travel

Forerunner Foray Andre Norton · 1973 · ★ 3.3 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Highly skilled mind reader Ziantha is totally unprepared for her contact with the strange green stone which takes her out-of-body, and into the ancient Forerunner worlds of hidden treasure and wisdom. Shares Time Travel

The Magic Labyrinth Philip José Farmer · 1980 · ★ 3.7 · 406p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Riverworld Saga Shares Time Travel

Found Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time. Shares Time Travel, Adventure, Children's fiction

D-Day Kate Messner · 2018 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Time Travel, Adventure, Children's fiction with this book.

The Royal Book of Oz Ruth Plumly Thompson · 1921 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Scarecrow searches for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island. Shares Adventure, Children's fiction

The Cave of Time Edward Packard · 1979 · ★ 3.7 · 115p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The reader enters a mysterious cave and by following the instructions on each page can have several different adventures backward and forward in time. Shares Time Travel, Adventure, Children's fiction

Doctor Who British Broadcasting Corporation · 1989 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Climb aboard the TARDIS for a journey through space, time, and comedy in the official Doctor Who joke book! -What do we want? -TIME TRAVEL! -When do we want it? -THAT'S IRRELEVANT! Packed with a dimensionally transcendent TARDIS-load amount of jokes, gags and riddles, this is the official Doctor Who joke book! Remember: it's funnier on the inside! Shares Time Travel

Son of Man Robert Silverberg · 1971 · ★ 3.4 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate 1972 Locus Poll Award nominee, best SF novel IN THE BEGINNING... there was no Brooklyn, no St. Louis, no Shakespeare, no moon, no hunger, no death... IN THE BEGINNING... there were no real men, no real women, nothing but dispassionately passionate ambisexuals of the lowest and highest order... IN THE BEGINNING... the heavens, the seas and the Earth belonged to more intelligent species… Shares Time Travel

Special deliverance Clifford D. Simak · 1982 · ★ 3.7 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Moderate It all started when Professor Edward Lansing wanted to know who really wrote that great term paper on Shakespeare and learned that his student had bought it from a slot machine. Going to investigate, the good professor found the machine, which gave him two keys and sent him in search of other slot machines. The third machine he tried took his money and transported him to a strange new… Shares Time Travel

The Anubis Gates Tim Powers · 1983 · ★ 3.9 · 393p · ≈ 13h · Moderate An ancient Egyptian sorcerer, a modern millionaire, a body-switching werewolf, a hideously deformed clown, a young woman disguised as a boy, a brainwashed Lord Byron, and finally, the protagonist Professor Brendan Doyle, who wanted none of this nonsense. Shares Time Travel

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