The Alington Inheritance (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 31)
By: Patricia Wentworth
3.90
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
A family fortune may be motive for “Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lo…
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1. Mystery in White
By: Martin Edwards , J. Jefferson Farjeon
3.38
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several pa… read more
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"That is why any general, however wrong he may be--take Napoleon, to avoid the politics of mere contemporary examples--must believe in himself to be successful, or dupe himself into such a belief. Ind…"-Martin Edwards, Mystery in White
2. 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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3. 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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"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)
4. 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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5. Death of a Nag (Hamish Macbeth, #11)
By: M.C. Beaton
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Taking a vacation in order to ride out the storm of a broken engagement, Constable Hamish Macbeth v… read more
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6. 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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"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)
7. Death of a Fool (Roderick Alleyn, #19)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.88
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
A ritual dance becomes a murderous mambo... At the winter solstice, South Mardian's swordsmen weave… read more
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8. The Five Bells and Bladebone (Richard Jury, #9)
By: Martha Grimes
3.93
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
When a dismembered corpse is found in the compartments of an antique secretaire a abattant, Marshal… read more
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9. 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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"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)
10. The Wall
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Riveting & compelling, The Walltells the inspiring story of forty men & women who escape the dehuma… read more
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11. A Presumption of Death (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #2)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers , Jill Paton Walsh
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
While Lord Peter is abroad on a secret mission, Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, takes their ch… read more
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12. The Window at the White Cat
By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jack Knox adored the beautiful Margery Fleming, but she adored the less-than-reputable Harry Wardro… read more
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13. Clutch of Constables (Roderick Alleyn, #25)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Five Days Out of Time ... that was how the ad had described the Zodiaccruise on the "weirdly misted… read more
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14. 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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15. The Yellow Room
By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a charred corpse is discovered in the linen closet of her family's Maine retreat, a woman must… read more
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16. 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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17. Hangman's Holiday: A Collection of Short Mysteries (Lord Peter Wimsey, #9)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Amusing and absolutely appalling things happen on the way to the gallows when murder meets Lord Pet… read more
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18. A Grave Mistake (Roderick Alleyn, #30)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
A spa stay turns into a homicidal holiday... A bit snobbish and a trifle high-strung, Sybil Foster … read more
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19. A Man Lay Dead / Enter a Murderer / The Nursing Home Murder
By: Ngaio Marsh
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the first volume in a set of omnibu… read more
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20. Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this delightful collection of Wimsey exploits, Dorothy L. Sayers reveals a gruesome, grotesque b… read more
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"I has such a sinking in my inside I has to get up and eat biscuits."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)
"And upon his return, Gherkins, who had always considered his uncle as a very top-hatted sort of person, actually saw him take from his handkerchief-drawer an undeniable automatic pistol. It was at th…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)
21. 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
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"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)
22. Mrs Pargeter's Principle (Mrs Pargeter, #7)
By: Simon Brett
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
For Mrs Pargeter, it is a matter of principle that she should complete any of her late husband's un… read more
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23. 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
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"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)
24. 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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"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)
25. 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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26. 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
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27. An Inexplicable Woman: A Historical Romance Mystery (Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series Book 4)
By: Sarah F. Noel
4.40
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
Step into 1897 Victorian Unravel Love and Intrigue with The Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Seri… read more
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28. Case in the Clinic
By: E.C.R. Lorac
4.05
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
The story begins with the sudden death of an elderly clergyman named Anderby, who drops dead while … read more
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29. The Alington Inheritance (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 31)
By: Patricia Wentworth
3.90
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
A family fortune may be motive for “Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lo… read more
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30. Mrs Pargeter's Public Relations (Mrs Pargeter #8)
By: Simon Brett
4.10
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet Mrs Melita Pargeter, a vivacious widow with a talent for solving mysteries. Accompanying he… read more
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31. The Late Lord Thorpe (D.C. Smith #11)
By: Peter Grainger
4.70
Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition
This is DC Smith’s third investigation with the Diver and Diver Associates agency. They have been a… read more
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