Books like The Mousetrap and Other Plays

The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie reads as suspenseful, clever. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories [9 stories]

Agatha Christie · 1948

Shares the unreliable thread

84% genome match

Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn #2)

Ngaio Marsh · 1935

Shares the unreliable thread

80% genome match

The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion #1)

Margery Allingham · 1929

Shares the unreliable thread

76% genome match

A strange disappearance

Anna Katharine Green · 1879

Shares the unreliable thread

75% genome match

The daffodil murder

Edgar Wallace · 1921

Shares the unreliable thread

75% genome match

The Killings at Badger's Drift

Caroline Graham · 1987

Shares the unreliable thread

74% genome match

Detection Unlimited

Georgette Heyer · 1953

Shares the unreliable thread

74% genome match

The Cornish Coast Murder

John Bude · 2014

Shares the unreliable thread

75% genome match

After dark, and other stories

Wilkie Collins · 1856

Shares the unreliable thread

75% genome match

Mystery of a Handsom Cab

Fergus Hume · 1887

Shares the unreliable thread

72% genome match

The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant #1)

Josephine Tey · 1927

Shares the unreliable thread

69% genome match

Le parfum de la dame en noir

Gaston Leroux · 1908

Shares the unreliable thread

69% genome match