21 must-read mystery books like The Echoing Strangers (Mrs. Bradley) by Gladys Mitchell

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The Echoing Strangers (Mrs. Bradley)

By: Gladys Mitchell

3.94

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Most people overlooked the sullen deaf-mute teenager Francis Caux…until he led police to the scene …

If you liked the mystery plot in The Echoing Strangers (Mrs. Bradley) by Gladys Mitchell , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Put Out the Light

By: Ethel Lina White

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

From the dust jacket of the first “Behind the ominous walls of Jamaica Court, Anthea Vine ruled as… read more

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2. The Mind Readers (Albert Campion Mystery, #18)

By: Margery Allingham

3.47

Format: 260 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Mind over murder Two schoolboys have discovered a miraculous gadget that enables them to read oth… read more

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3. Fear Stalks the Village

By: Ethel Lina White

4.12

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

It was a model English village, filled with flowers, Tudor cottages, and cobbled streets. Joan Broo… read more

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4. Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

It was planned as an act of a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. … read more

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"It's like one of those affairs in books," said Bailey disgustedly."Someone trying to think up a new way to do a murder. Silly, I call it." "What do you say, Roper?" said Alleyn. "To my way of thinkin…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

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5. Serpents in Eden

By: Martin Edwards

3.50

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

'The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the … read more

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6. The Case of William Smith (Miss Silver, #13)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Who was William Smith? And why was Mavis Jones so horrified to see him? For seven years William had… read more

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7. 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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8. Murder by Matchlight (Robert MacDonald, #25)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.76

Format: 360 pages,

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9. The House at Satan's Elbow (Dr. Gideon Fell, #21)

By: John Dickson Carr

4.46

Format: 170 pages,

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10. Hangman's Holiday: A Collection of Short Mysteries (Lord Peter Wimsey, #9)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Amusing and absolutely appalling things happen on the way to the gallows when murder meets Lord Pet… read more

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11. Missing or Murdered

By: Robin Forsythe , Curtis Evans

3.97

Format: 649 pages,

There was no mistaking the sound: it was that of a stealthy footfall, and it appeared to come from … read more

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12. The Franchise Affair (Inspector Alan Grant, #3)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Mar… read more

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13. Wicked Uncle (Miss Silver, #12)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Also published as Spotlight. When the menacing Gregory Porlock invites a group of unacquainted frie… read more

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14. The Tiger in the Smoke (Albert Campion Mystery #14)

By: Margery Allingham

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Meg's marriage to self-made millionaire Geoffrey Levett should have been happy, until she began rec… read more

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15. The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old scho… read more

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"It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

"Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

16. The 12:30 from Croydon

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

3.85

Format: None pages,

'Crofts constructs his alibi with immense elaboration...The story is highly successful, and Mr Crof… read more

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17. Measure for Murder

By: Clifford Witting

4.09

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1940 and Mrs Mudge, the cleaning lady is busy tidying the Little Theatre in Lulverton, which … read more

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18. 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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"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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19. Dead March for Penelope Blow (The Inspector Littlejohn Mysteries Book 4)

By: George Bellairs

4.20

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

In the wake of Mr William Blow’s death, his surviving relatives find themselves tangled up in famil… read more

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20. Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

“Never had I been given a tougher problem to solve, and never had I been so utterly at my wits’ end… read more

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21. Bats in the Belfry (Robert MacDonald #13)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.74

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Bruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels—but his early promise did … read more

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22. The Case of the Headless Jesuit (Thomas Littlejohn #16)

By: George Bellairs

4.22

Format: 492 pages, Kindle Edition

On New Year’s Eve a string of grisly deaths strike a remote English hamlet For centuries Cobbold-in… read more

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23. The Paddington Mystery (Dr. Priestly #1)

By: John Rhode

3.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A special release of the very first crime novel by John Rhode, introducing Dr Priestley, the genius… read more

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24. The Box Office Murders

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

3.91

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

A girl employed in the box office of a London cinema falls into the power of a mysterious trio of c… read more

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25. Case for Sergeant Beef (Sergeant Beef, #6)

By: Leo Bruce

3.70

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

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26. Outrage on Gallows Hill (Thomas Littlejohn #13)

By: George Bellairs

4.13

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

In Melchester, Thomas Littlejohn hunts the killer of a strangled poet The war is over and blackouts… read more

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27. Death on the Last Train (Thomas Littlejohn #12)

By: George Bellairs

4.01

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

First published in 1948, Death on the Last Train is a Chief Inspector Littlejohn mystery full of fa… read more

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28. The Echoing Strangers (Mrs. Bradley)

By: Gladys Mitchell

3.94

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Most people overlooked the sullen deaf-mute teenager Francis Caux…until he led police to the scene … read more

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29. He'd Rather Be Dead (Chief Inspector Littlejohn #8)

By: George Bellairs

3.97

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

The Mayor of the popular resort of Westcombe, Sir Gideon Ware, is no stranger to making enemies. … read more

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Cover of Death Came Softly (Robert MacDonald #23) by E.C.R. Lorac

30. Death Came Softly (Robert MacDonald #23)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.17

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

This crime puzzle features Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald, who is a “London Scot” and an avowed b… read more

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Cover of The Loss of the Jane Vosper by Freeman Wills Crofts

31. The Loss of the Jane Vosper

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

4.02

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, th… read more

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3.81

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4.24

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