23 must-read mystery books like Root of All Evil (Andrew Basnett) by E.X. Ferrars

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Root of All Evil (Andrew Basnett)

By: E.X. Ferrars

3.84

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

A weekend holiday at a wealthy relative’s country manor is a recipe that calls for mayhem in this c…

If you liked the mystery plot in Root of All Evil (Andrew Basnett) by E.X. Ferrars , here is a list of 23 books like this:

Cover of The Religious Body (Inspector Sloan #1) by Catherine Aird

1. The Religious Body (Inspector Sloan #1)

By: Catherine Aird

3.81

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Inspector C.D. Sloan of the Calleshire C.I.D. makes his first appearance here as he looks into the … read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
"Sloane wasn't interested. As a police officer he was concerned with crime, not punishment."

-Catherine Aird, The Religious Body (Inspector Sloan #1)

Cover of The Anodyne Necklace (Richard Jury, #3) by Martha Grimes

2. The Anodyne Necklace (Richard Jury, #3)

By: Martha Grimes

4.03

Format: 310 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A severed finger found at the scene of a baffling murder in the village of Littlebourne leads local… read more

Similar categories in Martha Grimes's The Anodyne Necklace (Richard Jury, #3) book and E.X. Ferrars's Root of All Evil (Andrew Basnett)

  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Heads You Lose (Inspector Cockrill #1) by Christianna Brand

3. Heads You Lose (Inspector Cockrill #1)

By: Christianna Brand

3.32

Format: 167 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Pigeonsford Estate is playing host to a group of close friends when one of their number, Grace Morl… read more

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

4. 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
  • fiction
Cover of A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard

5. 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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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1) by Edmund Crispin

6. The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1)

By: Edmund Crispin

3.51

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

Theatre companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigue, and few are more intriguing than the company c… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"la pobre virgencita rústica que espera que su caballero deje de hacer el tonto con la princesa malvada"

-Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1)

"bruscas sacudidas del tren abofetean a los viajeros hasta dejarlos sumidos en un estado de abyecta sumisión"

-Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1)

7. Fatal Descent

By: Carter Dickson , John Rhode

4.00

Format: None pages,

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8. Dancers in Mourning (Albert Campion Mystery #9)

By: Margery Allingham

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Jimmy Sutane, London's favorite song-and-dance man, headlines at the Argosy Theater, where someone … read more

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9. 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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10. A Knife for Harry Dodd (Chief Inspector Littlejohn, #21)

By: George Bellairs

4.50

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

Harry Dodd is stabbed in the back on his way home from the pub. But instead of calling for the poli… read more

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11. Death of A Mystery Writer

By: Robert Barnard

3.75

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

From master mystery writer Robert Barnard, one of his early novels, "Death of a Mystery Writer." Fi… read more

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12. Help the Poor Struggler (Richard Jury #6)

By: Martha Grimes

2.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This classic mystery in the New York Times bestselling series finds Jury joining forces with a hot-… read more

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13. The Mystery of the Kneeling Woman

By: Moray Dalton

4.30

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

"Not another murder!" "You've said it." Kindly Reverend John Clare pays a social call upon the satu… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast (Anty Boisjoly Mysteries #8) by P.J. Fitzsimmons

14. Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast (Anty Boisjoly Mysteries #8)

By: P.J. Fitzsimmons

4.40

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

A 1920s cosy aboard a yacht on the Scilly Seas Golden-age gadabout Anty Boisjoly, his valet Vick… read more

Similar categories in P.J. Fitzsimmons's Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast (Anty Boisjoly Mysteries #8) book and E.X. Ferrars's Root of All Evil (Andrew Basnett)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Locked in Pursuit (Electra McDonnell #4) by Ashley Weaver

15. Locked in Pursuit (Electra McDonnell #4)

By: Ashley Weaver

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The fourth instalment in the delightful series following safecracker Electra McDonnell fighting Naz… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Weaver's Locked in Pursuit (Electra McDonnell #4) book and E.X. Ferrars's Root of All Evil (Andrew Basnett)

  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Wintringham Mystery by Anthony Berkeley

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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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
"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. 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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  • mystery
  • fiction
"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

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18. 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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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Puzzle of Parham House: A 1920s Mystery by Benedict Brown

19. The Puzzle of Parham House: A 1920s Mystery

By: Benedict Brown

4.53

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

An ancient house with secrets to disclose, a string of murders with no clear motive and an enigma f… read more

Similar categories in Benedict Brown's The Puzzle of Parham House: A 1920s Mystery book and E.X. Ferrars's Root of All Evil (Andrew Basnett)

  • mystery
Cover of What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19) by C.S. Harris

20. What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19)

By: C.S. Harris

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen … read more

Similar categories in C.S. Harris's What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19) book and E.X. Ferrars's Root of All Evil (Andrew Basnett)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Crook o' Lune by E.C.R. Lorac

21. 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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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Case in the Clinic by E.C.R. Lorac

22. 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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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Case with Three Threads: An English Country House Murder Mystery by Anthony Lang

23. The Case with Three Threads: An English Country House Murder Mystery

By: Anthony Lang

3.84

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Effortless telling of a good story’ The Observer‘Murder most ingeniously contrived’ New York Times… read more

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24. 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

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of A Late Phoenix (Inspector Sloan, #4) by Catherine Aird

25. A Late Phoenix (Inspector Sloan, #4)

By: Catherine Aird

3.73

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan is called on to solve the coldest of cases in this thriller from CW… read more

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

26. 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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  • mystery
  • fiction
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27. Root of All Evil (Andrew Basnett)

By: E.X. Ferrars

3.84

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

A weekend holiday at a wealthy relative’s country manor is a recipe that calls for mayhem in this c… read more

Similar categories in E.X. Ferrars's Root of All Evil (Andrew Basnett) book and E.X. Ferrars's Root of All Evil (Andrew Basnett)

  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Death on the Aisle (Mr. and Mrs. North #4) by Frances Lockridge

28. Death on the Aisle (Mr. and Mrs. North #4)

By: Frances Lockridge

3.65

Format: 170 pages, Leather Bound

Broadway is undeniably a graveyard, but more often of men's hopes than men's bodies. And it is almo… read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
"You read too much, Mr. Kirk," Weigand told him. "Such men get foolish ideas."

-Frances Lockridge, Death on the Aisle (Mr. and Mrs. North #4)

Cover of Hardy Haul at Hardy Hall (Teddy Quillfeather Mysteries Book 1) by P.J. Fitzsimmons

29. Hardy Haul at Hardy Hall (Teddy Quillfeather Mysteries Book 1)

By: P.J. Fitzsimmons

4.48

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

The theft of an immensely valuable, immensely ugly necklace is only the beginning of the intrigues … read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Crime at Diana’s Pool by Victor L. Whitechurch

30. The Crime at Diana’s Pool

By: Victor L. Whitechurch

4.19

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Quite charming… devotees of mystery yarns will enjoy this story’ New York Times‘A quintessentially… read more

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Cover of Death Reports to a Health Resort (Anty Boisjoly Mysteries #9) by P.J. Fitzsimmons

31. Death Reports to a Health Resort (Anty Boisjoly Mysteries #9)

By: P.J. Fitzsimmons

4.53

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Death Reports to a Health Resortor The case of the case of withdrawalWhen his uncle is accused of a… read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction

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Catherine Aird

3.81

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Martha Grimes

4.03

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Christianna Brand

3.32

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Christianna Brand

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Martin Edwards , John Bude

4.72

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Anthony Berkeley

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