23 must-read mystery books like Operation Pax (Sir John Appleby, #12) by Michael Innes

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Operation Pax (Sir John Appleby, #12)

By: Michael Innes

3.84

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

A two-bit con-man is thrown in at the deep end as a desperate hunt takes place in Oxford, in this g…

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1. The Wine of Angels (Merrily Watkins, #1)

By: Phil Rickman

3.90

Format: 630 pages, Paperback

The Rev. Merrily Watkins had never wanted a picture-perfect parish — or a huge and haunted vicarage… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Duplicate Death (Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway, #7) by Georgette Heyer

2. Duplicate Death (Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway, #7)

By: Georgette Heyer

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

London is the scene for a card party given by a social-climbing hostess. Suddenly, the seemingly ci… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I never believe anything until I get proof," replied Hemingway. "But what I have got is flair!" "I have heard you say so," meekly responded his subordinate."

-Georgette Heyer, Duplicate Death (Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway, #7)

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3. The Potter's Field (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #17)

By: Ellis Peters

4.53

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

The year is 1143; once again Brother Cadfael is forced to leave the tranquility of his herb garden … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. The Last Coincidence

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Playboy Sparky Linville has a nasty notion of fun and games. But when he picks popular Noreen James… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Liberty Bar (Maigret, #17) by Georges Simenon, David Watson

5. Liberty Bar (Maigret, #17)

By: Georges Simenon , David Watson

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Half an hour later, he was in Cannes . . . White everywhere! Huge white hotels, white shops, white … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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6. The Long Divorce (Gervase Fen, #8)

By: Edmund Crispin

4.04

Format: 9 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Gervase Fen is summoned by a friend to a pretty village whose inhabitants are thrown into distress … read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. The Invisible Host

By: Gwen Bristow , Bruce Manning

3.85

Format: None pages,

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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8. Murder on the Celtic (George Porter Dillman & Genevieve Masefield, #8)

By: Conrad Allen

3.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield have crossed the Atlantic Ocean numerous times in the… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Glimpses of the Moon (Gervase Fen, #10)

By: Edmund Crispin

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Death and decapitation seem to go hand in hand in the Devon village of Aller. When the first victim… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

10. Murder by Matchlight (Robert MacDonald, #25)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.76

Format: 360 pages,

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11. 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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  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • british literature

12. A Kind of Loving

By: Stan Barstow

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

All about love, lust, and loneliness, the book introduces Vic Brown, a young working-class Yorkshir… read more

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13. The Middle Temple Murder

By: J.S. Fletcher

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

All this led up to the appearance of Mr. Aylmore, M.P., in the witness-box. And Spargo knew and fel… read more

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14. So Pretty a Problem

By: Francis Duncan

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for C… read more

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15. The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown, #1)

By: G.K. Chesterton

0.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes a… read more

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16. The Madman of Bergerac: Inspector Maigret #16

By: Ros Schwartz , Georges Simenon

3.79

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

A new translation of Simenon's tense novel, book fifteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. He reca… read more

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17. A Fete Worse Than Death (Jack Haldean Murder Mystery #1)

By: Dolores Gordon-Smith

4.43

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

It's 1922 and Jack Haldean, young crime writer and former Royal Flying Corps pilot, is enjoying the… read more

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18. 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
  • british literature
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19. Murder in Blue

By: Clifford Witting

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

No ISBN The author's first novel. The story concerns John Rutherford, proprietor of an Englis… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Murder at the Spring Ball (Lord Edgington Investigates, #1) by Benedict Brown

20. Murder at the Spring Ball (Lord Edgington Investigates, #1)

By: Benedict Brown

4.12

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

A little music, a little dancing, a little murder at the spring ball. England, 1925. After years s… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Body at a Boarding School (Lord Edgington Investigates, #2) by Benedict Brown

21. A Body at a Boarding School (Lord Edgington Investigates, #2)

By: Benedict Brown

4.25

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

Something is rotten at the Oakton Academy for Distinguished Young Gentlemen. With rumours of fig… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) by Jacqueline Winspear

22. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • british literature
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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23. Murderer's Mistake (Robert Macdonald #28)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.07

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

It's not long after the end of WWII, rationing is still in force in the UK, and Chief Inspector Mac… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Death at Dyke's Corner by E.C.R. Lorac

24. Death at Dyke's Corner

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Death at Dyke's Corner is a 1940 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, the pen name of the British write… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Port of London Murders by Josephine Bell

25. The Port of London Murders

By: Josephine Bell

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Wapping. Tugs and barges on the river. A west-end shop that deals apparently in nothing but lingeri… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • mystery
  • crime
"Miss Pollen did not seem to be a woman given to flights of imagination; indeed ideas appeared to come to her singly, and to enter her mind after a sharp struggle with the resistance they found in the…"

-Josephine Bell, The Port of London Murders

Cover of Mrs, Presumed Dead (Mrs Pargeter, #2) by Simon Brett

26. Mrs, Presumed Dead (Mrs Pargeter, #2)

By: Simon Brett

4.02

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

An absolutely gripping mystery full of twists. read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Nice Class of Corpse (Mrs Pargeter, #1) by Simon Brett

27. A Nice Class of Corpse (Mrs Pargeter, #1)

By: Simon Brett

4.00

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Mrs Melita Pargeter, a vivacious widow whose mystery-solving talents come in handy when a murd… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder at the Grand Hotel (Lady Caroline Murder Mysteries, #1) by Isabella Bassett

28. Murder at the Grand Hotel (Lady Caroline Murder Mysteries, #1)

By: Isabella Bassett

3.99

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

The French Riviera, 1925 Disgraced society “it” girl, Lady Caroline, has been shipped off to the… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Some Die Eloquent (Inspector Sloan, #8) by Catherine Aird

29. Some Die Eloquent (Inspector Sloan, #8)

By: Catherine Aird

3.83

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

A deadly mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird: Where there’s a will, there’s a way—f… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Operation Pax (Sir John Appleby, #12) by Michael Innes

30. Operation Pax (Sir John Appleby, #12)

By: Michael Innes

3.84

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

A two-bit con-man is thrown in at the deep end as a desperate hunt takes place in Oxford, in this g… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Case of Perplexity in Piccadilly (Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventures #7) by Clara Benson

31. A Case of Perplexity in Piccadilly (Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventures #7)

By: Clara Benson

4.24

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

West End theatre impresario Septimus Gooch is a man with many enemies, but when he's found dead in … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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