Books like The hollow man

The hollow man by John Dickson Carr reads as intellectual, suspenseful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Unnatural Death

Dorothy L. Sayers · 1927

Shares the detective + vornate thread

69% genome match

Death of a Peer

Ngaio Marsh · 1940

Shares the detective + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Lighthouse

P. D. James · 2005

Shares the detective + vornate thread

69% genome match

A Blunt Instrument

Georgette Heyer · 1938

Shares the detective + vornate thread

69% genome match

The Leavenworth case

Anna Katharine Green · 1878

Shares the detective + vornate thread

69% genome match

Poirot's Early Cases

Agatha Christie · 1963

Shares the detective thread

69% genome match

The Purloined Letter

Edgar Allan Poe · 1931

Shares the detective + vornate thread

69% genome match

The secret of Father Brown

Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1927

Shares the detective + vornate thread

69% genome match

Death Is Now My Neighbour

Colin Dexter · 1900

Shares the detective + vornate thread

70% genome match

Sherlock Holmes (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes / His Last Bow / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories] / Return of Sherlock Holmes)

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1928

Shares the detective thread

69% genome match

Shadows over Baker Street

Michael Reaves · 2003

Shares the detective + vornate thread

69% genome match

Detection by Gaslight

Douglas G. Greene · 1997

Shares the detective + vornate thread

69% genome match