18 books like Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula

What to read after Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Anno Dracula Kim Newman · 1992 · ★ 3.9 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Londres 1888. Depuis que Dracula a épousé la reine Victoria, la terreur règne sur la capitale. Sous l'influence du sulfureux comte, les citoyens sont de plus en plus nombreux à rejoindre les rangs des vampires, toujours plus puissants, et il ne fait pas bon être simple mortel. Mais la riposte ne se fait pas attendre. Dans les sinistres ruelles de Whitechapel, des prostituées vampires se font… Shares: Count Dracula, Dracula, London, Vampires

The secret life of Laszlo, Count Dracula Roderick Anscombe · 1989 · ★ 3.6 · 476p · ≈ 15h · Moderate In his mesmerizing fictional debut, psychiatrist Roderick Anscombe takes readers into the fevered mind of Count Dracula the man - aristocrat, doctor, and helpless killer of young women. There are no vampires in this stunningly erotic reinvention of the classic myth, only tormented human beings. Tortured by his own perverse desires, the distinguished Dr. Dracula is drawn to posses and destroy… Shares: Count Dracula, Dracula, Vampires, Horror

In search of Dracula Raymond T. McNally · 1972 · ★ 3.9 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The true story behind the legend of Dracula - a biography of Prince Vlad of Transylvania, better known as Vlad the Impaler. This revised edition now includes entries from Bram Stoker's recently discovered diaries, the amazing tale of Nicolae Ceausescu's attempt to make Vlad a national hero, and an examination of recent adaptations in fiction, stage and screen. Shares: Count Dracula, Dracula, Vampires

Dracula Cha Cha Cha Kim Newman · 1998 · ★ 3.9 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Written by award-winning novelist Kim Newman, this is a brand-new edition, with additional 40,000 word never-before-seen novella, of the popular third installment of the Anno Dracula series, Dracula Cha Cha Cha.Rome. 1959. Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda - his sixth wife. Journalist Kate Reed flies into the city to visit the ailing Charles… Shares: Count Dracula, Dracula, London, Vampires

Dracula, the vampire play in three acts Hamilton Deane · 1933 · 109p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares: Count Dracula, Dracula, Vampires

The House of Silk Anthony Horowitz · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap - a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place. THE HOUSE OF SILK bring… Shares: Watson, London, Private investigators, Mystery

Bram Stoker's Dracula omnibus Bram Stoker · 1897 · ★ 4.0 · 520p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Drácula parte de la existencia de Vlad Tepes, un personaje histórico situado en la Rumania del siglo XV, y conocido por su heroicidad contra la invasión otomana, pero también por su crueldad. A partir de esta historia y de no pocas leyendas acerca de él, Bram Stoker escribe esta magistral novela en forma de diarios y cartas que los personajes principales van intercambiándose. Una obra… Shares: Count Dracula, Dracula, Vampires, England

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle · 1927 · ★ 4.1 · 291p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares: Watson, Private investigators, England, Mystery Shares: Watson, Private investigators, England, Mystery

The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle · 1900 · ★ 4.1 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set in 1889 largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of… Shares: Watson, England, Mystery

New York Dead Stuart Woods · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate It Was Just Luck. Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he's too smart to be a cop, but it's pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out. Suddenly he is on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his life is hopelessly entwined in the increasingly shocking life (and perhaps death)… Shares: Private investigators in fiction, Private investigators, Thriller, Mystery

Death at the president's lodging J. I. M. Stewart · 1936 · ★ 3.2 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Inspector Appleby is called to St Anthony's College, where the President has been murdered in his Lodging. Scandal abounds when it becomes clear that the only people with any motive to murder him are the only people who had the opportunity - because the President's Lodging opens off Orchard Ground, which is locked at night, and only the Fellows of the College have keys. Shares: London, England, Thriller, Mystery

Poirot's Early Cases Agatha Christie · 1963 · ★ 3.9 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate With his career still in its formative years, we learn many things about how Poirot came to exercise those famous "grey cells" so well. Fourteen of the eighteen stories collected herein are narrated by Captain Arthur Hastings—including what would appear to be the earliest Poirot short story, The Affair at the Victory Ball, which follows soon on the events of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Two… Shares: Private investigators in fiction, Private investigators, England, Mystery

The Nymphos of Rocky Flats Mario Acevedo · 2005 · ★ 3.3 · 354p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The first and only vampire book to be declassified by the federal government . . . Felix Gomez went to Iraq a soldier. He came back a vampire. Now he finds himself pulled into a web of intrigue when an old friend prompts him to investigate an outbreak of nymphomania at the secret government facilities in Rocky Flats. He'll find out the cause of all these horny women or die trying! But first… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Private investigators, Vampires, Mystery

Dracula Jim Pipe · 1995 · 40p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with English solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Revealing his true nature as a vampire, Dracula moves to England and plagues the… Shares: Count Dracula, Vampires

The Fashion in Shrouds Margery Allingham · 1938 · ★ 4.3 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Detective Albert Campion has a talented dress designer sister with celebrated clients. Georgia Wells is a glamorous actress who exemplifies the 1930s femme fatale. Vain, stupid, and selfish, she attracts men like moths to a flame. When these men die, Albert suspects Georgia is more deliberately fatale than alluring. All the books from Albert Campion series are standalone titles and… Shares: Private investigators in fiction, London, Private investigators, England

The Shifting Tide Anne Perry · 2004 · ★ 4.4 · 339p · ≈ 11h · Moderate William Monk knows London's streets like the back of his hand; after all, they are where he earns his living. But the river Thames and its teeming docks-- where towering schooners and clipper ships unload their fabulous cargoes and wharf rats and night plunderers ply their trades--is unknown territory. Only dire need persuades him to accept an assignment from shipping magnate Clement Louvain to… Shares: London, Private investigators, Thriller, Mystery

The Guards Ken Bruen · 2001 · ★ 3.9 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate An Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.Praised by authors and critics around the globe, The Guards is the first novel in the Jack Taylor series and heralded the arrival of prominent Irish writer Ken Bruen as an essential voice in contemporary crime fiction.Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Siochana--The Guards, Ireland's police force--and staring at the world through the… Shares: Private investigators in fiction, Private investigators, Mystery

The Visitor Lee Child · 2000 · ★ 3.8 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Lee Child's latest unputdownable thriller starring Jack Reacher features a chilling serial killer.Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common. Both were army high-flyers.Both were acquainted with Jack Reacher.Both were forced to resign from the service. Now they're both dead.Both were found in their own home, naked, in a bath full of paint.Both apparent victims of an… Shares: Private investigators in fiction, Private investigators, England, Thriller

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