16 Top classics books like Death in Dark Glasses (Inspector Littlejohn #19) by George Bellairs

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Death in Dark Glasses (Inspector Littlejohn #19)

By: George Bellairs

4.04

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

It was meant to be a fool-proof scheme. The victim was a recluse, cut off from the world after the …

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1. The Silent Speaker (Nero Wolfe, #11)

By: Walter Mosley , Rex Stout

4.17

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

When a powerful government official scheduled to speak to a group of millionaire business men turns… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish."

-Walter Mosley, The Silent Speaker (Nero Wolfe, #11)

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2. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.05

Format: 243 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ninety-year-old General Fentiman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly when he had died—and … read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
"Exactly. He is the Most Unlikely Person, and that is why Sherlock Holmes would suspect him at once."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)

"I have a peculiar instinct about pubs. I can find one blindfold in a pea-souper with both hands tied behind me."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)

"Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)

"I’m determined never to be a parent. Modern manners and the break-up of the fine old traditions have simply ruined the business. I shall devote my life and fortune to the endowment of research on the…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)

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3. Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Format: None pages,

A spa-goer resorts to murder. Even down in New Zealand, war-fueled spy fever is running wild. Near … read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Prisoner's Base (Nero Wolfe, #21) by Rex Stout, William L. DeAndrea

4. Prisoner's Base (Nero Wolfe, #21)

By: Rex Stout , William L. DeAndrea

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hours after Priscilla Eads pleads with him to take her case, Nero Wolfe is shocked to find out that… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. Miss Pym Disposes

By: Josephine Tey

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

To Lucy Pym, author of a best-seller on Psychology, the atmosphere at the college where she is lect… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard

6. A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Sco… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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7. Some Buried Caesar (Nero Wolfe, #6)

By: Rex Stout , Diane Mott Davidson

3.47

Format: 185 pages,

Will a championship bull be served as barbecue or preserved for its lineage? Before this can be res… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

8. The Wall

By: John Hersey

3.50

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Riveting & compelling, The Walltells the inspiring story of forty men & women who escape the dehuma… read more

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9. The Middle of Things

By: J.S. Fletcher

4.03

Format: 606 pages, Paperback

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of dow… read more

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10. Nil (Nil, #1)

By: Lynne Matson

4.32

Format: 224 pages, ebook

On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days--to escape,… read more

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11. The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1)

By: Josephine Tey

3.77

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime

12. Black Orchids (Nero Wolfe, #9)

By: Lawrence Block , Rex Stout

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Not much can get Wolfe to leave his comfortable brownstone, but the showing of a rare black orchid … read more

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13. And Be a Villain (Nero Wolfe, #13)

By: Rex Stout , Maan Meyers

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Radio talk show host Madeline Fraser's worst nightmare comes true when one of her on-air guests col… read more

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14. To Love and Be Wise (Inspector Alan Grant, #4)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a strikingly handsome young photographer mysteriously disappears, it's up to Inspector Alan Gr… read more

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15. 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
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction

16. Death in a White Tie (Roderick Alleyn, #7)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's… read more

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17. The Moonspinners

By: Mary Stewart

3.06

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Young, beautiful, and adventurous Nicola Ferris loves her life as a secretary at the British Embass… read more

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18. 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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19. The Wintringham Mystery

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the fo… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
"For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity."

-Anthony Berkeley, The Wintringham Mystery

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20. 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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21. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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22. 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

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of Murder at Everham Hall (Marius Quin Mystery #1) by Benedict Brown

23. Murder at Everham Hall (Marius Quin Mystery #1)

By: Benedict Brown

4.01

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A mystery novelist with writer’s block, a lavish party to ring in the new year, and a film star wit… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Murder at Primrose Cottage (Flora Steele, #3) by Merryn Allingham

24. Murder at Primrose Cottage (Flora Steele, #3)

By: Merryn Allingham

4.11

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Join Flora Steele – bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, daydreamer and amateur detective – in her quest … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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25. 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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26. Crook o' Lune

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.15

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding lands … read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
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27. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Birdcage Murders (Heathcliff Lennox, #8) by Karen Baugh Menuhin

28. 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
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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29. Impact of Evidence

By: E. C. R. Lorac

4.32

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

AMONG THE hills of the Welsh borders a little group of farmsteads is isolated by snow and ice, then… read more

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30. Death in Dark Glasses (Inspector Littlejohn #19)

By: George Bellairs

4.04

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

It was meant to be a fool-proof scheme. The victim was a recluse, cut off from the world after the … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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31. The Book of the Dead (Henry Gamadge #8)

By: Elizabeth Daly

4.13

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

The hospital sees nothing to question about the death of the reclusive Mr. Crenshaw, and it’s not a… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction

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