18 books like They Came to Baghdad

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Parker Pyne Investigates Agatha Christie · 1933 · ★ 3.8 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A collection of short stories featuring the ‘heart specialist’, Parker Pyne. Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: ‘ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT, CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE’. Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker Pyne was possibly the… Shares: Middle east, English Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, English literature

Destination Unknown Agatha Christie · 1954 · ★ 3.7 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Hilary Craven has lost the will to live, Mrs Betterton is already dead. Then Hilary is asked to impersonate the dead woman and to trace her husband - a missing nuclear scientist - and her will to live returns. A faked air disaster, a string of radio-active pearls, a leper colony floundering in the dry heat of the Moroccan desert. Hilary is lead towards a terrifying discovery and her new found… Shares: Conspiracy, English Detective and mystery stories, English literature, Mystery

Murder in Mesopotamia Agatha Christie · 1936 · ★ 3.9 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Nurse Amy Leatheran had never felt the lure of the ‘mysterious East,’ but she nonetheless accepts an assignment at Hassanieh, an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert, to care for the wife of a celebrated archaeologist. Mrs Leidner is suffering bizarre visions and nervous terror. ‘I’m afraid of being killed!’ she admits to her nurse. Her terror, unfortunately, is anything but unfounded, and Nurse… Shares: Iraq, Middle east, Private investigators, English literature

Problem at Pollensa Bay Agatha Christie · 1991 · ★ 3.8 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This collection of eight stories feature characters such as Christie's most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, Mr Parker Pyne and the mysterious Harley Quin. Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators

Jailbait zombie Mario Acevedo · 2009 · ★ 4.4 · 353p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Vampires versus Zombies, round one . . .Vampire detective Felix Gomez has seen a lot of weird things since becoming one of the undead — nymphomaniacs, aliens, and X-rated bloodsuckers, just to name a few — but now he comes face-to-face with the worst sort of undead.To stop a ravenous army of zombies, Gomez must team up with a precocious teen with clairvoyant powers whose cooperation comes at a… Shares: Iraq, Private investigators

The Seven Dials Mystery Agatha Christie · 1920 · ★ 3.8 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Brings back several characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys, in a story that can best be described as a John Buchan thriller told by P.G. Wodehouse. (https://agathachristie.fandom.com/wiki/The_Seven_Dials_Mystery) Consummate young silly ass Gerry Wade is the despair of hosts and hostesses across the land, with his inability to make it to breakfast before the eggs are congealed,… Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, English literature, Mystery

The Sittaford Mystery Agatha Christie · 1931 · ★ 3.8 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging M-U-R-D-E-R. It began as an innocent parlor game intended to while away the hours on a bitter winter night. But the message that appeared before the amateur occultists at the snowbound Sittaford House was spelled out as loud and clear as a scream. Of course, the notion that they had foretold doom was pure bunk. Wasn't it? And the discovery of a corpse was pure coincidence. Wasn't it? If they're… Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, English literature, Mystery

Les contes drôlatiques Honoré de Balzac · 1855 · ★ 3.5 · 557p · ≈ 18h · Challenging A collection of stories with a mediaeval theme rather after the style of Rabelais. Early editions were illustrated by Gustav Dore and were published by Garnier Freres of Paris. The stories range from the absurd to the downright grim but the illustrations give them a life of their own. Rather off-putting to the reader used to modern French, the stories are written in an archaic French that is not… Shares: French Short stories, French literature

The Listerdale Mystery Agatha Christie · 1934 · ★ 3.9 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging This short story collection was first published in 1934 in the UK. It contains the following short stories: The Listerdale Mystery, Philomel Cottage, The Girl in the Train, Sing a Song of Sixpence, The Manhood of Edward Robinson, Accident, Jane in Search of a Job, A Fruitful Sunday, Mr Eastwood's Adventure, The Golden Ball, The Rajah's Emerald and Swan Song. Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, English literature, 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: English Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, English literature, Mystery

The Old Man in the Corner Emma Orczy · 1908 · ★ 4.3 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Old Man (Bill Owen) sits in a cheap restaurant frequented by journalists and plays with a bit of string, which he ties into elaborate knots as he talks. Addressing himself to Polly Burton, a young newspaperwoman with whom he has struck up a slight acquaintance, he focuses upon crimes mentioned in the newspapers. He summarizes the circumstances, describes the personalities, and then sneeringly… Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, Mystery

Second wind Dick Francis · 1832 · ★ 3.7 · 285p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Perry Stuart, TV meteorologist, chiefly predicts periods of English drizzle, with bursts of heavier rain and sunshine to follow. His life calm and ordered, his face familiar to every British household, Stuart's profound weather knowledge and accuracy have given him high status among forecasters, but no physical baptism by storm.Not, that is, until a fellow forecaster offers him a Caribbean… Shares: Conspiracy, Mystery

L'exil et le royaume Albert Camus · 1951 · ★ 3.8 · 213p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "[Exile and the kingdom] consists of six "short stories". The term must be as loosely applied as was that of "novel" to last year's The Fall. The tales, precise, almost stark, are concerned with illuminating the dispossessed- symbolically projected in the exile of man. Two, "The Adulterous Woman" and "The Renegade" take the deserts for their scenes; its barrenness brings revelation to Janine,… Shares: French Short stories, French literature

Mrs. McGinty's Dead Agatha Christie · 1951 · ★ 3.9 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Poirot, disillusioned by the "senseless cruel brutality" of modern crime, pays no attention to the sad case of Mrs McGinty, an old woman apparently struck dead by her lodger for thirty pounds that she kept under a floorboard. When, however, he is asked by the investigating officer to take another look at the case to stop an innocent man going to the gallows, he realises that things may not be as… Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, English literature, Mystery

Short stories Guy de Maupassant · 1893 · ★ 4.5 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Challenging This is a works of the short stories by Guy de Maupassant. The Diamond Necklace  The Diary of a Madman  Farewell The False Gems The Gamekeeper The Horla  The Inn In the Moonlight The Mad Woman The Marquis de Fumerol The Moribund The Piece of String The Story of a Farm Girl Theodule Sabot's Confession The Trip of the Horla Useless Beauty "Who Knows?" The Wolf The Wreck The Wrong… Shares: French Short stories, French literature

Death at the Abbey Anita Davison · 2023 Even the most glamorous stately homes hide secrets and lies from the past...When Flora Maguire receives an alarming telegram informing her of her father’s tragic death in a riding accident, she races back from London to her childhood home.But when Flora and her new husband, Bunny, get to Cleeve Abbey – where she was once Governess to Eddy, Viscount Trent, and her father was butler to Earl Trent –… Shares: English literature, Mystery

From Cradle to Grave Rhys Bowen · 2025 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Lady Georgiana “Georgie” Rannoch is just like any other new mother, balancing responsibilities of being 34th in line for the British throne and solving the shocking deaths of several young men, in this new Royal Spyness novel from the queen of historical mystery, Rhys Bowen.Georgie may be figuring out what it means to be a new mother but she does know one thing for sure:… Shares: English literature, Mystery

All That Is Hidden Rhys Bowen & Clare Broyles · 2023 · ★ 4.2 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Retired" detective and police captain's wife Molly Murphy Sullivan tangles with Tammany Hall in the next in Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles's New York Times bestselling historical mystery series.New York, Autumn, 1907: Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich… Shares: English literature, Mystery

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