Books like The Labours of Hercules

The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie reads as clever, analytical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Murder in the Mews and Other Stories (Dead Man's Mirror / Incredible Theft / Murder in the Mews / Triangle at Rhodes)

Agatha Christie · 1955

Shares the detective thread

85% genome match

Six Against the Yard

Anthony Berkeley · 1936

Shares the detective thread

84% genome match

The Game Is Afoot

Marvin Kaye · 1994

Shares the detective thread

82% genome match

The Floating Admiral

The Detection Club · 1931

Shares the detective thread

78% genome match

The daffodil murder

Edgar Wallace · 1921

Shares the detective thread

77% genome match

Short Stories (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories])

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1946

Shares the detective thread

79% genome match

A Mind to Murder

P. D. James · 1963

Shares the detective thread

74% genome match

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

Emma Orczy · 1910

Shares the detective thread

77% genome match

Fourteen Great Detective Stories

Vincent Starrett · 1928

Shares the detective thread

77% genome match

Death Is No Sportsman

Cyril Hare · 1938

Shares the detective thread

74% genome match

Moriarty

Anthony Horowitz · 2015

Shares the detective thread

75% genome match

Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn #2)

Ngaio Marsh · 1935

Shares the detective thread

73% genome match