The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries
By: Michael Sims
3.46
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside E…
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1. Tour de Force
By: Christianna Brand
3.69
Format: None pages, Paperback
The vacationing Inspector Cockrill is on the job again when a fellow tourist is stabbed to death on… read more
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2. Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3)
By: Christianna Brand
3.56
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
In the height of an English summer, Grandfather is found dead in the little Grecian lodge among the… read more
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3. 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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4. The Sibyl in Her Grave (Hilary Tamar, #4)
By: Sarah Caudwell
3.00
Format: 54 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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5. 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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6. 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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7. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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8. The Sirens Sang of Murder (Hilary Tamar, #3)
By: Sarah Caudwell
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Young barrister Michael Cantrip has skipped off to the Channel Islands to take on a tax-law case th… read more
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9. Infamy (Butch Karp, #28)
By: Robert K. Tanenbaum
3.83
Format: 373 pages, ebook
The "rock-solid" (Kirkus Reviews) prosecutor Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene Ciampi, return to sol… read more
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10. Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)
By: Sophie Hannah
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the … read more
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11. Lost Birds (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #27)
By: Anne Hillerman
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
“Anne Hillerman is a star.”—J. A. Jance, New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bes… read more
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12. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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13. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
14. Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles
By: Martin Edwards
3.91
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
‘If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a… read more
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15. Cahokia Jazz
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more
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16. 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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17. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)
By: Keigo Higashino
4.13
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more
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18. Death and the Conjuror (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #1)
By: Tom Mead
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A magician-turned-sleuth in pre-war London solves three impossible crimes. In 1930s London, cele… read more
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19. The Noh Mask Murder
By: Akimitsu Takagi
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in t… read more
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20. The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries
By: Michael Sims
3.46
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside E… read more
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21. The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023
By: Lisa Unger
3.41
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bests… read more
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22. Bodies from the Library 3: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and other Masters of Golden Age Detection
By: Agatha Christie
3.61
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bodies from the Library Bodies from the Library 2 Bodies from the Library 4 ____________… read more
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23. Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries
By: Martin Edwards
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
'Dr Greeby was found lying dead there, with his lecture-notes scattered all round him and brickbat … read more
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24. The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain vill… read more
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25. Cottage Sinister
By: Q. Patrick
3.77
Format: 192 pages, ebook
A sleepy English village is shaken by murder in this mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author wh… read more
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26. Death in the Thicket (Black Heath Classic Crime)
By: Vernon Loder
3.47
Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition
Sir Leonard Craysh knows there'll be trouble when his wife announces that she has included Alexande… read more
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27. Solitude Limited
By: John Haslette Vahey
3.43
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Tiring of the hustle and bustle of London, Tony Chant decides to decamp to the solitude of the nort… read more
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28. Murder in the Squire's Pew (A Ronald Camberwell Mystery)
By: J.S. Fletcher
3.96
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
The private eye Ronald Camberwell and his associate Chaney are called to investigate about the myst… read more
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29. The Marylebone Drop (Slough House, #5.5)
By: Mick Herron
3.92
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelop… read more
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30. The Deaf-Mute Murders (Black Heath Classic Crime)
By: Vernon Loder
3.45
Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition
When the body of a murdered deaf-mute vagrant is found in a West End square, Scotland Yard have tro… read more
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