24 Top mystery books like Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries by Martin Edwards

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Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Talented sportsmen inexplicably go absent without leave, crafty gamblers conspire in the hope of ma…

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1. 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
  • crime
  • fiction
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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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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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3. The Red House Mystery

By: A.A. Milne

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyor… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. The Man in the Picture

By: Susan Hill

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary ghost story from a modern master, published just in time for Halloween. In the apa… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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5. Calamity in Kent

By: Martin Edwards , John Rowland

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate, an impossible crime occurs. The operator of the cliff ra… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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6. The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

By: Agatha Christie

3.80

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic d… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
"It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it."

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

"You've brought out your best butter." [you're laying on the flattery thickly]"

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

"What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it."

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

7. The Methods of Sergeant Cluff

By: Gil North

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

It is a wet and windy night in the town of Gunnarshaw, on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. The body… read more

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8. The Cheltenham Square Murder

By: John Bude

3.19

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten … read more

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9. The Mousetrap: A Play

By: Agatha Christie

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer… read more

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10. The Seagull (Vera Stanhope #8)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detectiv… read more

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11. The Man Who Didn't Fly

By: Margot Bennett

4.20

Format: 141 pages, Hardcover

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12. The Female Detective

By: Alexander McCall Smith , Mike Ashley , Andrew Forrester

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1864, the British writer James Redding Ware (1832-c.1909), under the pseudonym Andrew Forrester,… read more

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13. 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
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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14. Impact of Evidence

By: Carol Carnac

4.11

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Near St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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15. The Mysterious Mr. Badman

By: W.F. Harvey

3.57

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

The note read: “Will the gentleman who took by mistake a copy of Bunyan’s Life and Death of Mr. Ba… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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16. 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

Similar categories in Anthony Berkeley's Murder In The Basement (Roger Sheringham Cases, #8) book and Martin Edwards's Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries

  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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17. Death of a Bookseller

By: Bernard J. Farmer

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A rare gem of the mystery genre makes its first return to print since 1956 An honest policeman, Se… read more

Similar categories in Bernard J. Farmer's Death of a Bookseller book and Martin Edwards's Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries

  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
"Jack, I'm going to tell you a story. A runner took a book to a famous dealer and said: 'I've got something rare here.' 'Yes,' replied the dealer, 'but customers who want it are rarer.' Then my book i…"

-Bernard J. Farmer, Death of a Bookseller

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18. Murder After Christmas

By: Rupert Latimer

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An ingenious lost Christmas mystery returns to print for the first time since 1944 'Did you say … read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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19. Death of an Author

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.99

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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20. Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.11

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

The second Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, Have His Carcase. Harr… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
"I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

"Novelists and police-inspectors do not always see eye to eye as regards publicity."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

"A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

"In the mood of relaxation and confidence that follows on being parboiled, it was easy enough to pump Mrs Weldon. A little diplomacy was needed, so as not to betray the ulterior object of the inquiry,…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)

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21. The Widow of Bath

By: Margot Bennett

3.43

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking in the second-rate hotel he found him… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
"...hatred destroyed with the speed of a bonfire in a wooden house. [Hugh Everton]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"The judge's manner would have made any man doubt the efficacy of lonely truth. Evidence would be demanded."

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"...I...advise you that it is the duty of every citizen to expose and so help to destroy evil. [Judge Gregory Bath]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"Life didn't stop, and a mind given too much to thoughts of death would create nothing but its own tomb. [Hugh Everton]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

Cover of Murder in the Mill-Race (Robert MacDonald #37) by E.C.R. Lorac

22. Murder in the Mill-Race (Robert MacDonald #37)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.11

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

‘“Never make trouble in the village” is an unspoken law, but it’s a binding law. You may know about… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
"Never make trouble in the village’ is an unspoken law, but it’s a binding law. You may know about your neighbours’ sins and shortcomings, but you must never name them aloud. It’d make trouble, and sm…"

-E.C.R. Lorac, Murder in the Mill-Race (Robert MacDonald #37)

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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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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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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
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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25. Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.97

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Who fired the fatal shot that snuffed out the life of miserly old Folliner during a London blackout… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
"Mind the cat."

-E.C.R. Lorac, Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)

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26. Big Ben Strikes Eleven

By: David Magarshack

3.34

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

The discovery of Sir Robert Boniface's body on the floor of his limousine was made quite accidental… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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27. Murder in the Falling Snow

By: Cecily Gayford

3.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

It's only the afternoon, but dusk is already falling and a log fire burning in the grate. Outside, … read more

Similar categories in Cecily Gayford's Murder in the Falling Snow book and Martin Edwards's Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries

  • classics
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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28. A Telegram from Le Touquet: With an introduction by Martin Edwards

By: John Bude

3.95

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

With some trepidation Nigel Derry approaches the country house of his enigmatic and unpredictable a… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries by Martin Edwards

29. Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Talented sportsmen inexplicably go absent without leave, crafty gamblers conspire in the hope of ma… read more

Similar categories in Martin Edwards's Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries book and Martin Edwards's Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries

  • classics
  • crime
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • sports

30. The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

By: Leonard R. Gribble

3.57

Format: 216 pages, None

The 1939 Arsenal side is firing on all cylinders and celebrating a string of victories. They appear… read more

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  • classics
  • sports
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

24 must-read fiction books like Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries by Martin Edwards

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Green for Danger

Christianna Brand

3.69

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Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3)

Christianna Brand

3.56

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The Red House Mystery

A.A. Milne

4.17

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The Man in the Picture

Susan Hill

4.20

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He Who Whispers (Dr. Gideon Fell, #16)

John Dickson Carr

3.91

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Christianna Brand

3.69

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Murder of a Lady (Dr. Hailey, #12)

Anthony Wynne

5.00

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Calamity in Kent

Martin Edwards , John Rowland

4.30

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