Read-alikes and related books

Books like A Study in Scarlet

Readers who finished A Study in Scarlet by A. Conan Doyle and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Private Investigators, Traditional, Classics, and Mystery & Detective.

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Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

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Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

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Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

The Hollow Needle Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin

Maurice Leblanc

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill The New Hercule Poirot Mystery

Sophie Hannah

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

His Last Bow Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes

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Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

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Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

The Chill

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Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

The Big Bow Mystery With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton

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Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

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Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

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The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes

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Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

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Magpie Murders

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Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Mystery & Detective

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Nemesis

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Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Mystery & Detective

#13

Darkness, Take My Hand A Kenzie and Gennaro Novel

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Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Mystery & Detective

#14

The Murder Pit

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Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Mystery & Detective

#15

Supreme Justice A Novel of Suspense

Phillip Margolin

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Mystery & Detective

#16

The Body Snatchers Affair A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery

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Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Mystery & Detective

#17

A Woman Unknown

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Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Mystery & Detective

#18

Arrowood

Mick Finlay

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Mystery & Detective

#19

48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister

Joyce Carol Oates

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

#20

A Woman Underground

Andrew Klavan

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

#21

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

#22

The Three Coffins

John Dickson Carr

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

#23

Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

#24

The Case of the Careless Kitten A Perry Mason Mystery

Erle Stanley Gardner

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Classics

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for A Study in Scarlet by A. Conan Doyle — spanning Private Investigators, Traditional, Classics and featuring authors such as Agatha Christie, Dennis Lehane, Maurice Leblanc, Sophie Hannah, and others.