23 best-selling crime books like A gentle murderer (Gregg Press mystery fiction series) by Dorothy Salisbury Davis

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A gentle murderer (Gregg Press mystery fiction series)

By: Dorothy Salisbury Davis

3.63

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

A frightening confession leads a priest to hunt down a murderer in Grand Master of crime fiction Do…

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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. The Circular Staircase

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

3.79

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the ci… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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3. Room to Swing

By: Ed Lacy

3.91

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

1958 Edgar Award Winner. First appearance of Toussaint Moore, a black private investigator from New… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Invisible Murder (Nina Borg, #2) by Lene Kaaberbøl, Agnete Friis

4. Invisible Murder (Nina Borg, #2)

By: Lene Kaaberbøl , Agnete Friis

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Scavenging hospital ruins in northern Hungary, two Roma boys stumble on something more valuable tha… read more

Similar categories in Lene Kaaberbøl's Invisible Murder (Nina Borg, #2) book and Dorothy Salisbury Davis's A gentle murderer (Gregg Press mystery fiction series)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of A Place Of Safety (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #6) by Caroline Graham

5. A Place Of Safety (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #6)

By: Caroline Graham

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Charlie Leathers was not the most popular man in the charming English village of Ferne Basset, but … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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6. Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Crimson Snowbrings together a dozen vintage crime stories set in winter. Welcome to a world of Fath… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

7. The Turquoise Shop

By: Frances Crane

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

First published in 1941, this book introduced the sleuthing pair of Jean Holly (later Jean Abbott) … read more

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8. Murder in G Major (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries, #1)

By: Alexia Gordon

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner-- Lefty Award, Best Debut Novel Nominee--Agatha Award, Best First Novel Chosen one of Suspen… read more

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9. Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.77

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

When a murder is committed at a party given in honour of a famous writer-detective, the guests impe… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

10. The Thinking Machine

By: Harlan Ellison , Jacques Futrelle

3.71

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This irascible genius, this diminutive egghead scientist, known to the world as "The Thinking Machi… read more

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Cover of Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5) by Sophie Hannah

11. 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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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Of Manners and Murder (Dear Miss Hermione Mystery, #1) by Anastasia Hastings

12. Of Manners and Murder (Dear Miss Hermione Mystery, #1)

By: Anastasia Hastings

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1885: London, England. When Violet's Aunt Adelia decides to abscond with her newest paramour, she l… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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13. Heart of the Nile (Barker & Llewelyn, #14)

By: Will Thomas

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

London, 1893 - deadly doings are afoot in the British Museum and private enquiry agents Cyrus Barke… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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14. 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

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  • mystery
  • 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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15. 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
  • crime
  • fiction
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16. 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
  • crime
  • 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

Cover of Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac

17. 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
  • crime
  • fiction
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18. These Names Make Clues

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.66

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Should detectives go to parties? Was it consistent with the dignity of the Yard? The inspector tos… read more

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's These Names Make Clues book and Dorothy Salisbury Davis's A gentle murderer (Gregg Press mystery fiction series)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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19. Other Women

By: Emma Flint

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A husband. A wife. A lover. Each has a secret they’d kill to protect . . . From the author of Li… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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20. Every Man a King (King Oliver, #2)

By: Walter Mosley

3.87

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

In this highly anticipated sequel from Edgar Award-winning "master of craft and narrative," Walter … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4) by Sujata Massey

21. The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)

By: Sujata Massey

4.02

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Death of a Traitor (Hamish Macbeth, #35) by M.C. Beaton

22. Death of a Traitor (Hamish Macbeth, #35)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.84

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this addition to a  New York Times  bestselling mystery series, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth—Scotland… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality (Saffron Everleigh Mystery, #2) by Kate Khavari

23. A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality (Saffron Everleigh Mystery, #2)

By: Kate Khavari

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

1920s London isn’t the ideal place for a brilliant woman with lofty ambitions. But research assista… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1) by Katy  Watson

24. The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1)

By: Katy Watson

3.77

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Three rival actresses team up to solve a murder at the stately home of the author who made them fam… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"It's not for us to say what is motive enough for a person. what might be a minor annoyance to us could mean murder to someone else..."

-Katy Watson, The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1)

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25. Speak of the Devil

By: Rose Wilding

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All of us knew him. One of us killed him... Seven women stand in shock in a seedy hotel room; a … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Metropolitan Opera Murders by Helen Traubel

26. The Metropolitan Opera Murders

By: Helen Traubel

3.52

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

It happened right in front of the soprano's eyes...the man in the prompter's box gasped, twisted gr… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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27. The Night Flowers

By: Sara Herchenroether

3.63

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In 1983, deep in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children we… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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28. A gentle murderer (Gregg Press mystery fiction series)

By: Dorothy Salisbury Davis

3.63

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

A frightening confession leads a priest to hunt down a murderer in Grand Master of crime fiction Do… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Salisbury Davis's A gentle murderer (Gregg Press mystery fiction series) book and Dorothy Salisbury Davis's A gentle murderer (Gregg Press mystery fiction series)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Keeper by Jessica Moor

29. The Keeper

By: Jessica Moor

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An addictive literary thriller about a crime as shocking as it is commonplace When Katie Straw's… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Master of Mysteries by Gelett Burgess

30. The Master of Mysteries

By: Gelett Burgess

3.75

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

"From the inspired mystic to the man of practical analytic mind, the transition was instantaneous..… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it."

-Gelett Burgess, The Master of Mysteries

27 must-read fiction books like A gentle murderer (Gregg Press mystery fiction series) by Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Transform Your Habits

Green for Danger

Christianna Brand

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Circular Staircase

Mary Roberts Rinehart

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Room to Swing

Ed Lacy

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Invisible Murder (Nina Borg, #2)

Lene Kaaberbøl , Agnete Friis

3.81

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17 best-selling fiction books like Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac

Transform Your Habits

Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Christianna Brand

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Green for Danger

Christianna Brand

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Sussex Downs Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #2)

Martin Edwards , John Bude

4.72

Transform Your Habits

Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)

Anthony Berkeley

3.77

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