Best Halloween Mystery Books

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The best mysteries to read at Halloween: a murder at a Halloween party, a ghostly governess, and moors, mansions and manor houses where the dead do not stay quiet.

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Hallowe'en Party

by Agatha Christie

Mystery writer Ariadne Oliver has been invited to a Hallowe’en party at Woodleigh Common. One of the other guests is an adolescent girl known for telling tall tales of murder and intrigue -- and for being generally unple...

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Trick or Treat Murder

by Leslie Meier

At Halloween in the small Maine town of Tinker's Cove, reporter Lucy Stone covers the festivities and finds a death behind the costumes. A cozy mystery in the Lucy Stone series.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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 190...

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The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.

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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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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 Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a remote Italian abbey to find the monks being killed one by one. A medieval mystery and a novel of ideas by Umberto Eco.

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Rebecca

by Daphne duMaurier

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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And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6...

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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

by Stuart Turton

***Gosford Park* meets *Groundhog Day* by way of Agatha Christie and *Black Mirror* – the most inventive story you'll read** Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed ... Again It is meant to be a celebration but it ends...

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Best Halloween Mystery Books

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Hallowe'en Party

Trick or Treat Murder

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Turn of the Screw

The Little Stranger

The Thirteenth Tale

The Name of the Rose

Rebecca

And Then There Were None

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

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Hallowe'en Party

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The Turn of the Screw

The Little Stranger

The Thirteenth Tale

The Name of the Rose

Rebecca

And Then There Were None

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

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