12 Top classics books like Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12) by Ngaio Marsh

Cover of Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12) by Ngaio Marsh

Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Format: None pages,

A spa-goer resorts to murder. Even down in New Zealand, war-fueled spy fever is running wild. Near …

If you liked the classics plot in Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12) by Ngaio Marsh , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16) by Margery Allingham

1. Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16)

By: Margery Allingham

3.96

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

In Hide My Eyes, private detective Albert Campion finds himself hunting down a serial killer in Lon… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12) by Ngaio Marsh

2. Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Format: None pages,

A spa-goer resorts to murder. Even down in New Zealand, war-fueled spy fever is running wild. Near … read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey

3. Miss Pym Disposes

By: Josephine Tey

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

To Lucy Pym, author of a best-seller on Psychology, the atmosphere at the college where she is lect… read more

Similar categories in Josephine Tey's Miss Pym Disposes book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Sweet Danger (Albert Campion Mystery #5) by Margery Allingham

4. Sweet Danger (Albert Campion Mystery #5)

By: Margery Allingham

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The impoverished Fitton family inhabit a run-down mill in a Suffolk village, and suspect their brot… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's Sweet Danger (Albert Campion Mystery #5) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard

5. A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Sco… read more

Similar categories in Josephine Tey's A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion Mystery #8) by Margery Allingham

6. The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion Mystery #8)

By: Margery Allingham

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true quee… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion Mystery #8) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

7. The Case of William Smith (Miss Silver, #13)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Who was William Smith? And why was Mavis Jones so horrified to see him? For seven years William had… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Wentworth's The Case of William Smith (Miss Silver, #13) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

8. More Work for the Undertaker (Albert Campion Mystery, #13)

By: Margery Allingham

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

Elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion investigates two deaths in the eccentric Palinode hou… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's More Work for the Undertaker (Albert Campion Mystery, #13) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

9. Look to the Lady (Albert Campion Mystery #3)

By: Margery Allingham

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

A ring of international thieves target the Gyrth Chalice, a priceless goblet held by centuries of G… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's Look to the Lady (Albert Campion Mystery #3) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

10. Unexpected Night (Henry Gamadge, #1)

By: Elizabeth Daly

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Daly's Unexpected Night (Henry Gamadge, #1) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

11. Murder by Matchlight (Robert MacDonald, #25)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.76

Format: 360 pages,

read more

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's Murder by Matchlight (Robert MacDonald, #25) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

Cover of Flowers for the Judge (Albert Campion Mystery, #7) by Margery Allingham

12. Flowers for the Judge (Albert Campion Mystery, #7)

By: Margery Allingham

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead i… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's Flowers for the Judge (Albert Campion Mystery, #7) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1) by Josephine Tey

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

By: Josephine Tey

3.77

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the… read more

Similar categories in Josephine Tey's The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

14. Poison in the Pen (Miss Silver, #29)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.11

Format: 192 pages,

When the quiet village of Tilling Green is plagued by an outbreak of poison pen letters, and then a… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Wentworth's Poison in the Pen (Miss Silver, #29) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

15. Wicked Uncle (Miss Silver, #12)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Also published as Spotlight. When the menacing Gregory Porlock invites a group of unacquainted frie… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Wentworth's Wicked Uncle (Miss Silver, #12) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

16. Grey Mask (Miss Silver, #1)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

After Charles was jilted at the altar by Margaret, he discovers that she is mixed up in a vicious k… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Wentworth's Grey Mask (Miss Silver, #1) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

17. To Love and Be Wise (Inspector Alan Grant, #4)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a strikingly handsome young photographer mysteriously disappears, it's up to Inspector Alan Gr… read more

Similar categories in Josephine Tey's To Love and Be Wise (Inspector Alan Grant, #4) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

Cover of The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard

18. The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old scho… read more

Similar categories in Josephine Tey's The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

"Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

Cover of Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13) by Dorothy L. Sayers

19. Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.24

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Society’s eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally suc… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy L. Sayers's Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13) book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

Cover of Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac

20. Post After Post-Mortem

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.00

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, revi… read more

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's Post After Post-Mortem book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac

21. These Names Make Clues

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.66

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Should detectives go to parties? Was it consistent with the dignity of the Yard? The inspector tos… read more

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's These Names Make Clues book and Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

12 best-selling fiction books like Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12) by Ngaio Marsh

Transform Your Habits

Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16)

Margery Allingham

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Miss Pym Disposes

Josephine Tey

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Sweet Danger (Albert Campion Mystery #5)

Margery Allingham

3.57

View all the books

17 best-selling fiction books like Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac

Transform Your Habits

Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Christianna Brand

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Green for Danger

Christianna Brand

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Sussex Downs Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #2)

Martin Edwards , John Bude

4.72

Transform Your Habits

Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)

Anthony Berkeley

3.77

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.