6 best-selling humor books like Hopjoy Was Here (Flaxborough, #3) by Colin Watson

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Hopjoy Was Here (Flaxborough, #3)

By: Colin Watson

3.98

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping sight of four burly policeman manhandling a bath down the front path of a respectable …

If you liked the humor plot in Hopjoy Was Here (Flaxborough, #3) by Colin Watson , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Ring for Jeeves (Jeeves, #10) by P.G. Wodehouse

1. Ring for Jeeves (Jeeves, #10)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The only Jeeves story in which Bertie Wooster makes no appearance, involves Jeeves on secondment as… read more

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  • audiobook
  • humor
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12) by Margery Allingham

2. 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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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2) by Ngaio Marsh

3. 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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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) by Ngaio Marsh

4. 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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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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 A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1) by Ngaio Marsh

5. 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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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature

6. The Shortest Way to Hades (Hilary Tamar, #2)

By: Sarah Caudwell

3.00

Format: 54 pages, Mass Market Paperback

To avoid taxes, a family agrees to change the trust and support heiress, ravishing raven-haired Cam… read more

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  • british literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

7. Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A Jeeves and Wooster novel Thank You, Jeevesis the first novel to feature the incomparable valet Je… read more

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  • audiobook
  • humor
  • fiction
  • british literature

8. Thus Was Adonis Murdered (Hilary Tamar, #1)

By: Sarah Caudwell

3.88

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

When her personal copy of the current Finance Act is found a few metres away from a body, young bar… read more

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9. The Cinderella Killer (Charles Paris, #19)

By: Simon Brett

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Landing a minor part in the Empire Theatre Eastbourne's Christmas production of Cinderella, Charles… read more

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10. The Chessmen (Lewis Trilogy, #3)

By: Peter May

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating … read more

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11. The Santa Klaus Murder

By: Mavis Doriel Hay

3.74

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

When it comes to Christmas stories, one typically thinks of those that embody the spirit of the sea… read more

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12. A Dead Man in Trieste (Seymour of Special Branch, #1)

By: Michael Pearce

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning British author, Michael Pearce, comes the first in a new series introducing Seym… read more

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13. William Tell Told Again

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.59

Format: 32 pages,

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14. The House of Silk

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.01

Format: 532 pages, Hardcover

London, 1890. 221B Baker Street. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes an… read more

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15. The Tragedy at Freyne

By: Anthony Gilbert

4.11

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

When Sir Simon Chandos is found poisoned in his library, with a confession in front of him and a ph… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • british literature
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16. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • audiobook
  • humor
  • british literature
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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17. Shrines of Gaiety

By: Kate Atkinson

3.85

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

Cover of The Belvedere Murders (Heathcliff Lennox #11) by Karen Baugh Menuhin

18. The Belvedere Murders (Heathcliff Lennox #11)

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin

4.60

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Murder, Mystery and a dog, and cat, of distinction A dazzling ball in a rooftop ballroom in one … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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19. Curiosity Killed The Cat

By: Joan Cockin

4.22

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

Little a village that had been taken over by The Ministry of Scientific Research during the Second… read more

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20. The Tangled Treasure Trail (Lord Edgington Investigates, #5)

By: Benedict Brown

4.45

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

High-speed treasure hunts, wild parties, and a string of murders to investigate – it's just a norma… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • british literature
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21. Mrs Pargeter's Package (Mrs Pargeter, #3)

By: Simon Brett

4.07

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

The sleuthing skills of feisty widow Melita Pargeter are put to the challenge when a dead body turn… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Birdcage Murders (Heathcliff Lennox, #8) by Karen Baugh Menuhin

22. The Birdcage Murders (Heathcliff Lennox, #8)

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin

4.56

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder, Mystery and a dog of distinction Major Heathcliff Lennox is called in, along with ex Det… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. Hopjoy Was Here (Flaxborough, #3)

By: Colin Watson

3.98

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping sight of four burly policeman manhandling a bath down the front path of a respectable … read more

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  • british literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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24. Mr Eastwood's Adventure: Mysteries

By: Agatha Christie

3.58

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook. P… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Blotto, Twinks and the Stars of the Silver Screen (Blotto and Twinks,  #7) by Simon Brett

25. Blotto, Twinks and the Stars of the Silver Screen (Blotto and Twinks, #7)

By: Simon Brett

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Another hair-raising adventure featuring the aristocratic brother and sister sleuthing duo!The end … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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26. Sing a Song of Sixpence: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

3.27

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

Previously published in the print anthologies The Listerdale Mystery and Witness for The Prosecutio… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Dead Man in Athens (Seymour of Special Branch, #3) by Michael Pearce

27. A Dead Man in Athens (Seymour of Special Branch, #3)

By: Michael Pearce

3.48

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

When the prime minister of 1913 Greece hatches a poorly received plan to unite his people throughou… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Skelton's Guide to Suitcase Murders (Arthur Skelton #2) by David Stafford

28. Skelton's Guide to Suitcase Murders (Arthur Skelton #2)

By: David Stafford

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A woman's dismembered corpse is discovered in a suitcase, and police quickly identify her husband, … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Skelton's Guide to Domestic Poisons (Arthur Skelton #1) by David Stafford

29. Skelton's Guide to Domestic Poisons (Arthur Skelton #1)

By: David Stafford

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Unassuming Yorkshireman, Arthur Skelton, is one of the most celebrated and recognisable barristers … read more

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  • british literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Dover Two (A Dover Mystery Book 2) by Joyce Porter

30. Dover Two (A Dover Mystery Book 2)

By: Joyce Porter

3.93

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fictio… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Skelton's Guide to Blazing Corpses (Arthur Skelton #3) by David Stafford

31. Skelton's Guide to Blazing Corpses (Arthur Skelton #3)

By: David Stafford

4.03

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Guy Fawkes Night, 5th November, 1930. Bonfires are blazing, rockets burst. In a country lane, revel… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

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Ngaio Marsh

3.82

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Hernan Diaz

3.83

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Sebastian Barry

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Kate Morton

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