11 Best golden age mystery books like Murders in Volume 2 (Henry Gamadge Book 3) by Elizabeth Daly

Cover of Murders in Volume 2 (Henry Gamadge Book 3) by Elizabeth Daly

Murders in Volume 2 (Henry Gamadge Book 3)

By: Elizabeth Daly

3.98

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

Third in the Henry Gamadge series. One hundred years earlier, a beautiful guest had disappeared fro…

If you liked the golden age mystery plot in Murders in Volume 2 (Henry Gamadge Book 3) by Elizabeth Daly , here is a list of 11 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

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
"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 The Benson Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #1) by S.S. Van Dine

2. The Benson Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #1)

By: S.S. Van Dine

3.46

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

The Benson Murder Case is the first novel in the Philo Vance series of mystery novels by S. S. Van … read more

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  • new york
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10) by Ngaio Marsh

3. Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)

By: Ngaio Marsh

4.00

Format: 303 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Murder becomes a family affair... The Lampreys were a charming, eccentric happy-go-lucky family, t… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12) by Margery Allingham

4. Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

By: Margery Allingham

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Albert Campion returns from three years’ work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his m… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2) by Ngaio Marsh

5. Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.82

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued - the second Roderick Alleyn Mystery. The crime scene was the … read more

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

6. 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

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • 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 ar…"

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

Cover of Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5) by Ngaio Marsh

8. Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Death served well-chilled The leading lady of a theater company touring New Zealand was stunning… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"What do you think, Mr Alleyn? If there's another war will the young chaps come at it, same as we did, thinking it's great? And get the same jolt? What do you reckon?" "I'm afraid to speculate," said …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

"My poor fat Alfie! He was not a romantic husband, but he was so kind and understanding. He never minded whether I was amusing or dull. He thought it impossible that I could be dull. I didn't have to …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

Cover of A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1) by Ngaio Marsh

9. A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor … read more

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  • classics
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

10. Johnny Under Ground

By: Patricia Moyes

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Slight Mourning (Inspector Sloan, #6) by Catherine Aird

11. Slight Mourning (Inspector Sloan, #6)

By: Catherine Aird

3.63

Format: 371 pages,

In this classic parlor mystery from CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, Detective Inspector C… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • golden age mystery
Cover of Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8) by Ngaio Marsh

12. Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

It was planned as an act of a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. … read more

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  • classics
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"It's like one of those affairs in books," said Bailey disgustedly."Someone trying to think up a new way to do a murder. Silly, I call it." "What do you say, Roper?" said Alleyn. "To my way of thinkin…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

Cover of Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4) by Ngaio Marsh

13. Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of th… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Look here,' said Nigel suddenly, 'let's pretend it's a detective novel. Where would we be by this time? About halfway through, I should think. Well, who's your pick' 'I am invariably gulled by detect…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)

14. Artists in Crime (Roderick Alleyn, #6)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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15. Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Douglas V. Steere

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, the Danish writer Sore… read more

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16. Dead Men Don't Ski

By: Patricia Moyes

3.89

Format: 32 pages,

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17. Nil (Nil, #1)

By: Lynne Matson

4.32

Format: 224 pages, ebook

On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days--to escape,… read more

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18. Parting Breath (Inspector Sloan #7)

By: Catherine Aird

3.49

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Murder in the Quadrangle The college dons at the University of Calleshire fully expected trouble wh… read more

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Cover of Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11) by Ngaio Marsh

19. Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

The party's over when murder makes an entrance...With the notion of bringing together the most bitt… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"With corpses stiffening on the premises, sir, all things be possible to a man with a desperate powerful idea egging him on."

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"They were fortified with all the resilience that youth presents to an emotional shock. In the midst of murder and attempted suicide, they had managed, not only to behave with address and good sense, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"For some reason that he had never been able to understand, Mandrake was a man in whom his fellow-creatures confided. He was by no means obviously sympathetic and he seldom asked for confidences but, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"Beneath it hung a faded photograph in an Oxford frame. It presented a Victorian gentleman wearing an ineffable air of hauteur and a costume which suggested that he had begun to dress up as Mr. Sherlo…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

20. Death at the Bar (Roderick Alleyn, #9)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A cosy game of darts in a cosy English pub is going well until one of the players dies on the spot.… read more

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21. Death in a White Tie (Roderick Alleyn, #7)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's… read more

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22. Hand in Glove (Roderick Alleyn, #22)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages,

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23. Scales of Justice (Roderick Alleyn, #18)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Format: 244 pages,

The quiet village of Swevenings seemed an English pastoral paradise, until the savagely beaten body… read more

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Cover of The Strong Room: A Golden Age Mystery by R.A.J. Walling

24. The Strong Room: A Golden Age Mystery

By: R.A.J. Walling

4.05

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

Golden Age of Crime writer R.A.J. Walling’s first-ever crime novel, republished here for the first … read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Smallbone Deceased by Michael    Gilbert

25. Smallbone Deceased

By: Michael Gilbert

4.05

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderHorniman, Birley and Craine is a highly re… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapte…"

-Michael Gilbert, Smallbone Deceased

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

26. 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

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6) by Ellis Peters

27. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Love shared is no sin."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

Cover of The Sunken Sailor: Inspector Tibbett #2 (Henry Tibbett) by Patricia Moyes

28. The Sunken Sailor: Inspector Tibbett #2 (Henry Tibbett)

By: Patricia Moyes

3.85

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

Poor Inspector Tibbett! Once again, he is attempting to have a nice vacation. And once again, Crime… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Murders in Volume 2 (Henry Gamadge Book 3) by Elizabeth Daly

29. Murders in Volume 2 (Henry Gamadge Book 3)

By: Elizabeth Daly

3.98

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

Third in the Henry Gamadge series. One hundred years earlier, a beautiful guest had disappeared fro… read more

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  • new york
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Calamity at Harwood (Chief Inspector Littlejohn #7) by George Bellairs

30. Calamity at Harwood (Chief Inspector Littlejohn #7)

By: George Bellairs

4.15

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

To solve a murder case, Thomas Littlejohn contends with ghosts, Nazis, and crooked real estate spec… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Death and the Dutch Uncle by Patricia Moyes

31. Death and the Dutch Uncle

By: Patricia Moyes

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Professional sleuth, Henry Tibbett, finds that the murder of a kitchen worker is linked to an Afric… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

21 best-selling fiction books like Murders in Volume 2 (Henry Gamadge Book 3) by Elizabeth Daly

Transform Your Habits

Passing Strange (Inspector Sloan #9)

Catherine Aird

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Benson Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #1)

S.S. Van Dine

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)

Ngaio Marsh

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

Margery Allingham

3.99

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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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