18 Top mystery books like Cinderella Goes to the Morgue by Nancy Spain

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Cinderella Goes to the Morgue

By: Nancy Spain

2.93

Format: None pages, None

'Her detective novels are hilarious - less about detecting than delighting, with absurd farce and a…

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1. The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown (Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation, #2)

By: Vaseem Khan

4.05

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

The second book in the heartwarming and charming Baby Ganesh series. For centuries the Koh-i-Noo… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"Ganesha: a riddle inside an enigma wrapped inside an elephant. Often, when he looked into Ganesha’s gentle brown eyes, he would think he saw his Uncle Bansi staring back at him."

-Vaseem Khan, The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown (Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation, #2)

"No one seemed to know how Ganesha had escaped from Kondvilkar’s clutches or, for that matter, how he had ended up with Irfan. From the boy there came only a simple explanation. ‘Ganesha found me and …"

-Vaseem Khan, The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown (Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation, #2)

"Ganesha turned to admire himself in the mirror. The elephant calf wore a ridiculously coloured caparison across his back, with a Keralan-style nettipattam headdress tied over his forehead. The nettip…"

-Vaseem Khan, The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown (Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation, #2)

Cover of Singing in the Shrouds (Roderick Alleyn, #20) by Ngaio Marsh

2. Singing in the Shrouds (Roderick Alleyn, #20)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

All aboard for murderThe Cape Farewell steams out to sea, carrying a serial strangler who says it w… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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3. The Feast

By: Margaret Kennedy

3.93

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more

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  • mystery
"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

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4. Ex-wife

By: Ursula Parrott

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more

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5. Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.50

Format: None pages,

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more

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6. The Deadly Dance (Agatha Raisin, #15)

By: M.C. Beaton

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Iinfuriated that her holiday was ruined by a mugging, Agatha Raisin decides to open up her own dete… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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7. Rule Britannia

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.16

Format: 315 pages, ebook

"A diverse and engrossing cast of characters...provocative, diverting." --Chicago Tribune Emma wake… read more

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  • mystery

8. Cold Comfort Farm

By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more

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9. 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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10. Treachery (Giordano Bruno, #4)

By: S.J. Parris

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Summer, 1585: As English ships are held captive in Spain, fear mounts of an Invincible Armada, buil… read more

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11. May Day Murder (Whitstable Pearl Mysteries Book 3)

By: Julie Wassmer

3.89

Format: 32 pages,

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12. The Shooting Party

By: Isabel Colegate

4.20

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Ox… read more

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13. Some Tame Gazelle

By: Barbara Pym

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

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14. Love in a Cold Climate

By: Nancy Mitford

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  One of Nancy Mitford's most beloved nov… read more

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15. 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
  • crime
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16. Murder on the Christmas Express

By: Alexandra Benedict

3.16

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Eighteen passengers. Seven stops. One killer.In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the sleeper train… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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17. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1) by Seishi Yokomizo

18. The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.66

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translate… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One b…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

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19. The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5)

By: Janice Hallett

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows t… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3) by Robert Thorogood

20. The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies su… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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21. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

Cover of Fear and Miss Betony (Chief Inspector Dan Pardoe, #4) by Dorothy Bowers

22. Fear and Miss Betony (Chief Inspector Dan Pardoe, #4)

By: Dorothy Bowers

3.65

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Emma Betony is an elderly lady reluctantly coming to terms with the fact that the rest of her life … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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23. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World

By: Malcolm Gaskill

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more

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24. Music in the Dark

By: Sally Magnusson

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

1884. In a tenement room and kitchen in the town of Rutherglen, near Glasgow, a woman with stark in… read more

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25. The Skeleton Key

By: Erin Kelly

3.78

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART... Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insist… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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26. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more

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27. The Dark

By: Emma Haughton

3.72

Format: 384 pages, ebook

🎧Listening Length = 13 hours and 25 minutes A “superlative locked-room mystery” (The Sunday Time… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Murder on the Downs (Whitstable Pearl Mystery #7) by Julie Wassmer

28. Murder on the Downs (Whitstable Pearl Mystery #7)

By: Julie Wassmer

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

'While Oxford had Morse, Whitstable, famous for its oysters, has Pearl' Daily Mail Murder on the D… read more

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  • mystery
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29. The King’s Mother

By: Annie Garthwaite

4.49

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

1461. Through blood and battle Edward has gained England’s throne – king by right and conquest – ei… read more

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30. Cinderella Goes to the Morgue

By: Nancy Spain

2.93

Format: None pages, None

'Her detective novels are hilarious - less about detecting than delighting, with absurd farce and a… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1) by Richard Osman

31. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)

By: Richard Osman

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

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3.96

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