Best Gothic Mystery Books

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The best gothic mysteries: crumbling houses, secrets in the family and shadows on the stairs.

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Rebecca

A young bride arrives at Manderley, her new husband's grand Cornish estate, and finds herself living in the shadow of Rebecca, his first wife, whose memory is kept alive by the sinister housekeeper Mrs Danvers. A classic...

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Jamaica Inn

by Daphne du Maurier

Her mother's dying request takes Mary Yellan on a sad journey across the bleak moorland of Cornwall to reach Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. With the coachman's warning echoing in her memory, Mary arrives at...

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My Cousin Rachel

by Daphne du Maurier

Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the...

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The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival...

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The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

One of the first English detective novels, this mystery involves the disappearance of a valuable diamond, originally stolen from a Hindu idol, given to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, and then stolen again. A c...

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

by Charles Dickens

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final, uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens. John Jasper is a choirmaster who is in love with one of his pupils, Rosa Bud. She is the fiancee of his nephew, Edwin Drood. A hot-tempered m...

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The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of...

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The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of t...

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The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters

Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, *The Little Stranger* is Sarah Waterss most thrilling and ambitious novel yet. After her award-winning trilogy of victorian novels, sarah waters turned to the 1940s and wrote th...

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Best Gothic Mystery Books

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Rebecca

Jamaica Inn

My Cousin Rachel

The Woman in White

The Moonstone

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Thirteenth Tale

The Secret History

The Little Stranger

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