9 must-read classics books like The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) by Ngaio Marsh

Cover of The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) by Ngaio Marsh

The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ngaio Marsh's bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime…

"Do you read crime fiction?"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"They do a certain amount of mischief, they're an almighty nuisance, but as murderers I've no real faith in the British anarchist."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"Nash, who carried in his head a sort of social ladder, had quietly decided that police officers of all ranks were to be graded with piano tuners."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"... In our midst—in our very midst, Matron—are secret agents, secret societies, powers of evil known to the Yard but unsuspected by the general public. Mercifully so." He stopped short, folded his arms, and wondered how much of this the woman would swallow. Apparently the whole dose."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

If you liked the classics plot in The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) by Ngaio Marsh , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Lonesome Road (Miss Silver, #3) by Patricia Wentworth

1. Lonesome Road (Miss Silver, #3)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.97

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

Every year beautiful Rachel Treherne must rewrite her will--and decide who will inherit her late fa… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Latter End (Miss Silver, #11) by Patricia Wentworth

2. Latter End (Miss Silver, #11)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

(Re)découvrez tous les grands succès de Patricia Wentworth chez 12-21, l'éditeur numérique !" Dans … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Case Is Closed (Miss Silver, #2) by Patricia Wentworth

3. The Case Is Closed (Miss Silver, #2)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.86

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

The Everton murder case has long been closed. The culprit has been charged with the murder of his u… read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"And if you, Miss Hilary, could blow up that fire and put on a kettle, we will make her a nice cup of tea. In fact I think we all should all be the better of a nice cup of tea."

-Patricia Wentworth, The Case Is Closed (Miss Silver, #2)

Cover of Miss Silver Deals With Death (Miss Silver, #6) by Patricia Wentworth

4. Miss Silver Deals With Death (Miss Silver, #6)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.04

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

When her fiancé, Giles Armitage, is lost at sea in the middle of the Second World War, Meade Underw… read more

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  • detective
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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Cargo of Eagles (Albert Campion Mystery, #19) by Margery Allingham

5. Cargo of Eagles (Albert Campion Mystery, #19)

By: Margery Allingham

3.80

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

In this, Ms. Allingham's last novel, the action revolves around Saltey, for centuries a hidey-hole … read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16) by Margery Allingham

6. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) by Ngaio Marsh

7. The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ngaio Marsh's bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime… read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) book and Ngaio Marsh's The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Do you read crime fiction?"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"They do a certain amount of mischief, they're an almighty nuisance, but as murderers I've no real faith in the British anarchist."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"Nash, who carried in his head a sort of social ladder, had quietly decided that police officers of all ranks were to be graded with piano tuners."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"... In our midst—in our very midst, Matron—are secret agents, secret societies, powers of evil known to the Yard but unsuspected by the general public. Mercifully so." He stopped short, folded his ar…"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

Cover of Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3) by Christianna Brand

8. Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3)

By: Christianna Brand

3.56

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In the height of an English summer, Grandfather is found dead in the little Grecian lodge among the… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1) by Margery Allingham

9. The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)

By: Margery Allingham

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A house party is under way at the remote mansion of Black Dudley, and among the guests are some ver… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
"George Abbershaw's prosaic mind quivered on the verge of poetry when he looked at her."

-Margery Allingham, The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)

Cover of The China Governess (Albert Campion Mystery #17) by Margery Allingham

10. The China Governess (Albert Campion Mystery #17)

By: Margery Allingham

4.03

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Timothy Kinnit, rich, handsome, well-bred, learns on the eve of his elopement, that he was adopted.… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's The China Governess (Albert Campion Mystery #17) book and Ngaio Marsh's The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

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

11. 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

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  • detective
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  • mystery
  • crime

12. 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

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13. The Clock Strikes Twelve (Miss Silver, #7)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.73

Format: 251 pages,

The Paradine family has gathered to celebrate New Year's Eve. Alas, when the clock strikes twelve o… read more

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14. She Came Back (Miss Silver, #9)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.73

Format: 251 pages,

Also published as The Traveller Returns. Assumed dead, Lady Anne Jocelyn meets varying degrees of w… read more

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15. 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

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16. The Catherine Wheel (Miss Silver, #15)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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17. Eternity Ring (Miss Silver, #14)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Mary Stokes discovers a dead body in Dead Man's Copse one evening but when she returns with a polic… read more

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18. 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

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19. Police at the Funeral (Albert Campion Mystery #4)

By: Margery Allingham

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The imperious Caroline Faraday runs her house like a Victorian fiefdom, unconcerned with the fact t… read more

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20. Mystery Mile (Albert Campion Mystery #2)

By: Margery Allingham

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

Judge Crowdy Lobbett has found evidence pointing to the identity of the criminal mastermind behind … read more

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21. Black Orchids (Nero Wolfe, #9)

By: Lawrence Block , Rex Stout

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Not much can get Wolfe to leave his comfortable brownstone, but the showing of a rare black orchid … read more

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