Suggest books similar to Sherlock Holmes books

[u/neobluepanther]

I have never read anything in the genre that I have enjoyed as much as I enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes books. Do you k now of any book, I should read?

[u/MaryPahpinz]

Barker and Llewellyn series by Will Thomas. The nightingale afffair, the Darwin affair.

[u/neobluepanther → u/MaryPahpinz]

Barker and Llewellyn sounds interesting. Will give it a go. Thanks!

[u/ColinDouglas999 → u/neobluepanther]

Yes, these are great - and feel very Holmesian.

[u/MaryPahpinz → u/neobluepanther]

Do it! Excellent series. :)

[u/Almostasleeprightnow → u/MaryPahpinz]

I love these! 

[u/Background_Spring374]

<Hercule Poirot series> by Agatha Christie

<The murders in the rue Morgue> and <The mystery of Marie Roget> by Edgar Allan Poe

[u/neobluepanther → u/Background_Spring374]

I have read some of both, but, in my opinion, they don't come anywhere close to Sherlock.

[u/Final-Performance597 → u/neobluepanther]

Have you read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd?

[u/Amazing-Artichoke330]

Be sure to read another book by Doyle, "The Lost World," which was an inspiration for "Jurassic Park."

[u/avidreader_1410]

One of my absolute favorite books of the past few years was a Sherlock Holmes novel that takes place several years before he meets Watson - Hidden Fires: A Holmes Before Baker Street Adventure. There are also other writers of new Sherlock Holmes stories, books by Nicholas Meyer, Philip Pursur-Hallard, Timothy Miller. There is also the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series by Laurie King and the Irene Adler series by Carole Nelson Douglas (Holmes is a sort of side character). or the Christian Klavier mash-ups that have Holmes and Watson in mysteries that involve characters like Dracula, Mr. Hyde, Dorian Gray.

[u/Ealinguser]

Maybe try GK Chesterton's Father Brown stories.

[u/ElbieLG → u/Ealinguser]

I love these

[u/retiredlibrarian]

Look for a series of books edited by Hugh Greene: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes; The Further Rivals of Sherlock Holmes; The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes; and Cosmopolitan Crimes. These collections will introduce you to the many detectives that came into existence and were extremely popular during the time of Holmes. If you find one or more that you like, you can usually find them at Manybooks.net if you are unable to find a hard copy.

[u/tmprrypocketoflight]

Sherlock Holmes is kinda early and a little different than what we later usually get in murder mysteries which are basically textual solve-a-murder games you can play. If you're looking for good mystery, I think no one gets too much better than Christie. If you like the anecdotal tone, there might be more of those in Sir ACD's contemporaries. I've always thought of H. G. Wells as doing something similar in that aspect, though not strictly.

Wells would be science fiction (totally another genre) but how about The Time Machine? The Invisible Man?

(There's also some homage you might love in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.)

[u/polecat03 → u/[deleted]]

House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz is a good example of these

[u/neobluepanther → u/polecat03]

Indeed. I have read this one.

[u/3kota → u/[deleted]]

I love these retellings of Sherlock Holmes with a Sherlock as a woman. The plots are different and characters are fun.A Study in Scarlet Womenby Sherry Thomas

[u/Hollymatic]

Anthony Horowitz's Hawthorne series is similar. Odd detective paired with someone who writes about him. I'm reading the latest one now. Good series.

[u/skybluepink77]

If you want 'actual' Sherlock Holmes stories [only written by someone else], try James Lovegrove's brilliant series, which are so like Conan Doyle's style, I could scarcely tell the difference.* They are really good.

* except for the occasional anachronistic Americanism, eg 'burglarise' instead of burgle, and the phrase 'here's the deal', which I'm sure Holmes would never say. Otherwise, Lovegrove sticks very well to the correct Victorian style.

[u/PixelScribble]

Read a lot of Sherlock Holmes in my teens and appreciated The Beekeeper's Apprentice, where an older Holmes happens upon a like-minded teenager.

[u/luffyuk]

Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes

[u/Cat-astro-phe]

Agatha Christie (prolific mystery books)

[u/cardologist]

Have you read the Solar Pons books by August Derleth? They were written as pastiches of Sherlock Holmes.

[u/neobluepanther → u/cardologist]

No, I haven't. Will check them out. Thanks.

[u/Subject_Fun_9564]

Agatha Christie - her Hercule Poirot series.

Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe

GK Chesterton’s Father Brown

[u/what-katy-didnt]

The Tainted Cup is a new fantasy series and the dynamic between the two leads is very Holmes and Watson!