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Books like The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale is about class and victorian respectability, family secrets and concealment, the birth of detective fiction. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson · History
Dead Wake tells the story of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915, when a German U-boat torpedoed the British ocean liner off the coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard, including 128 Americans.
Read the summary → - The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Erik Larson · History
Erik Larson's The Splendid and the Vile covers Winston Churchill's first year as British Prime Minister — from May 1940, when he replaced Neville Chamberlain three days after Germany's invasion of the Low Countries, through May 1941.
Read the summary → - Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Ben Macintyre · History
Eddie Chapman was a safecracker, con man, and professional criminal who became Britain's most remarkable double agent during World War II.
Read the summary → - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe · History
Empire of Pain is Patrick Radden Keefe's account of the Sackler family — the dynasty behind Purdue Pharma and the opioid crisis — told across three generations.
Read the summary → - The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · History
Ben Macintyre tells the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who became the most important British spy of the Cold War.
Read the summary → - A Gentleman in Moscow
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Amor Towles · Historical fiction
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal — not to death, but to permanent house arrest in Moscow's Metropol Hotel.
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