15 must-read crime books like Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare by Cyril Hare

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Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare

By: Cyril Hare

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Cyril Hare's short stories were mostly written for the London Evening Standard. Among them, The Sto…

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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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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"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

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2. The Quiet Gentleman

By: Georgette Heyer

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Gervase Frant, Seventh Earl of St Erth, returns at last from Waterloo to his family seat at St… read more

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  • classics
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"Providence has decreed that he should succeed to his dear father’s honours,’ pronounced the Dowager, thinking poorly of Providence."

-Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman

"You were not acquainted with my father, Mr Morville. I have often been sorry that you were not, for you would have been excessively pleased with one another. My father was a great reader, though not,…"

-Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman

"Mr Warboys, without putting himself to the trouble of deciding which of the more ferocious animals his friend resembled, stated the matter in simple, and courageously frank terms. "You know, old fell…"

-Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman

"His steward and his housekeeper, both persons of sentiment, hoped that upon his death-bed he would remember her, and speak of her with a forgiving tongue, for it seemed to them incredible that so gen…"

-Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman

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3. Green for Danger

By: Christianna Brand

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in a military hospital during the blitz, this novel is one of Brand's most intricately plotted … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
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  • mystery
  • crime
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4. Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

4.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

The lonely old house in Starvel Hollow stands as usual one evening. The next morning it is a heap o… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature

5. 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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6. The Shadow of the Wolf

By: R. Austin Freeman

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

In this delightful detective story, Richard Austin Freeman should truly satisfy the inquisitive rea… read more

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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

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  • classics
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • british literature

8. 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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9. The Penrose Mystery

By: R. Austin Freeman

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Penrose is an eccentric old man in possession of some dazzling gems, which he won't insure. When Dr… read more

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10. 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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11. The Emperor's Snuff-Box

By: John Dickson Carr

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Beside the dead body of Sir Maurice Lawes are the shattered fragments of a snuff-box that once belo… read more

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12. The Lake District Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #1)

By: John Bude

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a body is found at an isolated garage, Inspector Meredith is drawn into a complex investigatio… read more

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13. Death of an Airman

By: Christopher St. John Sprigg

4.23

Format: 528 pages,

Death of an Airmanis an enjoyable and unorthodox whodunit from a writer whose short life was as rem… read more

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14. Shroud of Darkness

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.24

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

One was brutally attacked in the choking black fog in Paddington Station. Attempted murder became b… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 20th century
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15. 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
  • british literature
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16. The Wintringham Mystery

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the fo… read more

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  • crime
"For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity."

-Anthony Berkeley, The Wintringham Mystery

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17. Murder In The Basement (Roger Sheringham Cases, #8)

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.57

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY.Roger and Molly Dane have something of a surprise in their new house. Wh… read more

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  • adult
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18. 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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19. Crook o' Lune

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.15

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding lands … read more

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20. 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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21. Accident by Design

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.24

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

Accident by Design was honestly a really well done classic British mystery. I was surprised, expect… read more

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22. 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

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  • crime
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23. Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare

By: Cyril Hare

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Cyril Hare's short stories were mostly written for the London Evening Standard. Among them, The Sto… read more

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24. I Could Murder Her

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.27

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Muriel Farrington is a domineering woman who, unfortunately for them, has her entire family living … read more

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  • crime
  • 20th century
  • british literature
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25. Impact of Evidence

By: E. C. R. Lorac

4.32

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

AMONG THE hills of the Welsh borders a little group of farmsteads is isolated by snow and ice, then… read more

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26. The Last Escape

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.04

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

In this final detective novel to feature Superintendent Robert MacDonald, we find the police office… read more

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  • classics
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27. Dr. Priestley Lays a Trap

By: John Rhode

4.17

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr. Priestley Lays a Trap, first published in 1933 (and also known by the title The Motor Rally Mys… read more

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28. Asesinato en el laberinto (Sir Clinton Driffield, #1)

By: J.J. Connington

3.39

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

La finca de Whistlefield es famosa no solo por su belleza, sino también por el laberinto vegetal qu… read more

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  • crime
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29. The Loss of the Jane Vosper

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

4.02

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, th… read more

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Cover of In Whose Dim Shadow (Sir Clinton Driffield #10) by J.J. Connington

30. In Whose Dim Shadow (Sir Clinton Driffield #10)

By: J.J. Connington

4.20

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

In this, the tenth Clinton Driffield mystery, the action moves away from a country setting to the E… read more

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31. The Case of Oscar Brodski

By: R. Austin Freeman

4.03

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

物語前半で犯人を明かし、後半で完全犯罪のほころびを暴いていく“倒叙推理小説”と呼ばれる形式をはじめて試みた、フリーマンの代表的短篇集。著者略歴 (「BOOK著者紹介情報」より)フリーマン,オースチン… read more

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Martin Edwards , J. Jefferson Farjeon

3.38

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Georgette Heyer

4.03

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Green for Danger

Christianna Brand

3.69

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4.47

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3.38

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3.56

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