21 must-read mystery books like The Port of London Murders by Josephine Bell

Cover of The Port of London Murders by Josephine Bell

The Port of London Murders

By: Josephine Bell

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Wapping. Tugs and barges on the river. A west-end shop that deals apparently in nothing but lingeri…

"Miss Pollen did not seem to be a woman given to flights of imagination; indeed ideas appeared to come to her singly, and to enter her mind after a sharp struggle with the resistance they found in their way."

-Josephine Bell, The Port of London Murders

If you liked the mystery plot in The Port of London Murders by Josephine Bell , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Passing Strange (Inspector Sloan #9) by Catherine Aird

1. Passing Strange (Inspector Sloan #9)

By: Catherine Aird

3.81

Format: 174 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The usually placid village of Almstone, caught up in the excitement of its traditional horticultura… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Aird's Passing Strange (Inspector Sloan #9) book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • mystery
  • crime
"Though,' observed Sloan profoundly, 'where there's a will there's usually a relative."

-Catherine Aird, Passing Strange (Inspector Sloan #9)

"Although the last enemy might be death, in long and sad police experience, the first enemy could usually be found, Cain and Abel fashion, within the family circle."

-Catherine Aird, Passing Strange (Inspector Sloan #9)

Cover of Fear Stalks the Village by Ethel Lina White

2. Fear Stalks the Village

By: Ethel Lina White

4.12

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

It was a model English village, filled with flowers, Tudor cottages, and cobbled streets. Joan Broo… read more

Similar categories in Ethel Lina White's Fear Stalks the Village book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2) by Carter Dickson

3. The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2)

By: Carter Dickson

3.66

Format: 176 pages,

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Similar categories in Carter Dickson's The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2) book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

4. Cousin Kate

By: Georgette Heyer

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

Kate Malvern, rescued from penury by her aunt Minerva, hardly knows what to expect at Staplewood - … read more

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

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.76

Format: 360 pages,

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6. Death and Restoration (Jonathan Argyll, #6)

By: Iain Pears

4.60

Format: 431 pages,

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7. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Pym's Quartet in Autumn book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • british literature

8. Mad About the Boy? (Jack Haldean Murder Mystery, #2)

By: Dolores Gordon-Smith

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Recaptures the vitality and insouciance of the Golden Age of writers."--Robert Barnard It's the he… read more

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9. The Lady Vanishes

By: Ethel Lina White

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE WORLD-FAMOUS SUSPENSE NOVEL FROM WHICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK CREATED HIS MOVIE MASTERPIECE, REDISCOV… read more

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10. The Lost Gallows (Henri Bencolin, #3)

By: John Dickson Carr

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

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11. Murder Underground

By: Stephen Booth , Mavis Doriel Hay

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

If you were suddenly to be found murdered, would your friends have theories about who had done the … read more

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Cover of Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9) by Anthony Berkeley

12. Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.77

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

When a murder is committed at a party given in honour of a famous writer-detective, the guests impe… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Berkeley's Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9) book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • british literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Till Death Do Us Part (Dr. Gideon Fell, #15) by John Dickson Carr

13. Till Death Do Us Part (Dr. Gideon Fell, #15)

By: John Dickson Carr

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fiancée the mysterious newcomer to the village, Les… read more

Similar categories in John Dickson Carr's Till Death Do Us Part (Dr. Gideon Fell, #15) book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of Impact of Evidence by Carol Carnac

14. Impact of Evidence

By: Carol Carnac

4.11

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Near St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Mysterious Mr. Badman by W.F. Harvey

15. The Mysterious Mr. Badman

By: W.F. Harvey

3.57

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

The note read: “Will the gentleman who took by mistake a copy of Bunyan’s Life and Death of Mr. Ba… read more

Similar categories in W.F. Harvey's The Mysterious Mr. Badman book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • 20th century
  • crime
Cover of Crossed Skis (Julian Rivers #8) by Carol Carnac

16. Crossed Skis (Julian Rivers #8)

By: Carol Carnac

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An atmospheric holiday novel from one of the most consistently popular authors in the series, Carol… read more

Similar categories in Carol Carnac's Crossed Skis (Julian Rivers #8) book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J. Farmer

17. Death of a Bookseller

By: Bernard J. Farmer

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A rare gem of the mystery genre makes its first return to print since 1956 An honest policeman, Se… read more

Similar categories in Bernard J. Farmer's Death of a Bookseller book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
"Jack, I'm going to tell you a story. A runner took a book to a famous dealer and said: 'I've got something rare here.' 'Yes,' replied the dealer, 'but customers who want it are rarer.' Then my book i…"

-Bernard J. Farmer, Death of a Bookseller

Cover of A Body at a Boarding School (Lord Edgington Investigates, #2) by Benedict Brown

18. A Body at a Boarding School (Lord Edgington Investigates, #2)

By: Benedict Brown

4.25

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

Something is rotten at the Oakton Academy for Distinguished Young Gentlemen. With rumours of fig… read more

Similar categories in Benedict Brown's A Body at a Boarding School (Lord Edgington Investigates, #2) book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of Death of an Author by E.C.R. Lorac

19. Death of an Author

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.99

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would… read more

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's Death of an Author book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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 Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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 Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of Sally-Ann by Susan Scarlett

22. Sally-Ann

By: Susan Scarlett

3.97

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The Marchioness's face changed. ... She turned to Ann. "What is your name, dear?" "Ann." "Wou… read more

Similar categories in Susan Scarlett's Sally-Ann book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles by Martin Edwards

23. Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles

By: Martin Edwards

3.91

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

‘If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a… read more

Similar categories in Martin Edwards's Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Widow of Bath by Margot Bennett

24. The Widow of Bath

By: Margot Bennett

3.43

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking in the second-rate hotel he found him… read more

Similar categories in Margot Bennett's The Widow of Bath book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"...hatred destroyed with the speed of a bonfire in a wooden house. [Hugh Everton]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"The judge's manner would have made any man doubt the efficacy of lonely truth. Evidence would be demanded."

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"...I...advise you that it is the duty of every citizen to expose and so help to destroy evil. [Judge Gregory Bath]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"Life didn't stop, and a mind given too much to thoughts of death would create nothing but its own tomb. [Hugh Everton]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

Cover of The Port of London Murders by Josephine Bell

25. The Port of London Murders

By: Josephine Bell

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Wapping. Tugs and barges on the river. A west-end shop that deals apparently in nothing but lingeri… read more

Similar categories in Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • 20th century
  • crime
"Miss Pollen did not seem to be a woman given to flights of imagination; indeed ideas appeared to come to her singly, and to enter her mind after a sharp struggle with the resistance they found in the…"

-Josephine Bell, The Port of London Murders

Cover of Two-Way Murder by E.C.R. Lorac

26. Two-Way Murder

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

'This is only a hill mist, not a real fog. You'll find it'll be perfectly clear when we run down in… read more

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's Two-Way Murder book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • 20th century
  • crime
Cover of Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25) by E.C.R. Lorac

27. Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.97

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Who fired the fatal shot that snuffed out the life of miserly old Folliner during a London blackout… read more

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25) book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • 20th century
  • crime
"Mind the cat."

-E.C.R. Lorac, Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)

Cover of Bats in the Belfry (Robert MacDonald #13) by E.C.R. Lorac

28. Bats in the Belfry (Robert MacDonald #13)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.74

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Bruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels—but his early promise did … read more

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's Bats in the Belfry (Robert MacDonald #13) book and Josephine Bell's The Port of London Murders

  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • 20th century
  • crime
Cover of Death Has Deep Roots: A Second World War Mystery by Michael    Gilbert

29. Death Has Deep Roots: A Second World War Mystery

By: Michael Gilbert

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

An eager London crowd awaits the trial of Victoria Lamartine, hotel worker, ex-French Resistance fi… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Belting Inheritance by Julian Symons

30. The Belting Inheritance

By: Julian Symons

3.69

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

Lady Wainwright presides over the gothic gloom at Belting, in mourning for her two sons lost in the… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

24 Best fiction books like The Port of London Murders by Josephine Bell

Transform Your Habits

Passing Strange (Inspector Sloan #9)

Catherine Aird

3.81

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Barbara Pym

None

Transform Your Habits

Fear Stalks the Village

Ethel Lina White

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2)

Carter Dickson

3.66

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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

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