23 Best mystery books like The Bittermeads Mystery by E.R. Punshon

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The Bittermeads Mystery

By: E.R. Punshon

3.54

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

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1. Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

By: Christianna Brand

3.55

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

At a medieval pageant, Inspector Cockrill investigates a dramatic death Ever since she drove her… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
"But now the streets were not like the streets she knew. They were so silent: and so empty. On the doorsteps, little groups of milk bottles huddled with their dirty white collars, waiting for the roun…"

-Christianna Brand, Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

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2. Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.82

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued - the second Roderick Alleyn Mystery. The crime scene was the … read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
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3. 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
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4. Two Flights Up

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

3.98

Format: None pages,

A boarder comes to live with three women and finds them frighteningly strange From the outside, it … read more

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  • classics
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5. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)

By: Josephine Tey

3.95

Format: None pages,

Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitiv… read more

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  • classics
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6. Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.17

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable Lond… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
"How do you do?"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"Bredon shuddered. “I think this is an awfully immoral job of ours. I do, really. Think how we spoil the digestions of the public."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"It's a curious thing, but people cannot resist anonymous letters. It's like free sample offers. They appeal to all one's lower instincts."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"The interview with the cat had been particularly full of appeal. The animal was, it seemed, an illustrious rat-catcher, with many famous deeds to her credit. Not only that, but she had been the first…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

7. The Sea Mystery

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

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8. 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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9. Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #23)

By: Agatha Christie

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of Eng… read more

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10. The Glass Key

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages,

Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of S… read more

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11. The Talleyrand Maxim

By: J.S. Fletcher

3.71

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

It's old Mr. Bartle, sir, he whispered. He's in your room there -- dead! Dead? exclaimed Eldrick. D… read more

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12. A Strange Disappearance

By: Anna Katharine Green

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Anna Green was an early 20th century novelist. She was one of the first authors to write detective … read more

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13. Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Douglas V. Steere

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, the Danish writer Sore… read more

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14. Jamaica Inn

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.89

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

15. 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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16. Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

The party's over when murder makes an entrance...With the notion of bringing together the most bitt… read more

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  • classics
"With corpses stiffening on the premises, sir, all things be possible to a man with a desperate powerful idea egging him on."

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"They were fortified with all the resilience that youth presents to an emotional shock. In the midst of murder and attempted suicide, they had managed, not only to behave with address and good sense, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"For some reason that he had never been able to understand, Mandrake was a man in whom his fellow-creatures confided. He was by no means obviously sympathetic and he seldom asked for confidences but, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"Beneath it hung a faded photograph in an Oxford frame. It presented a Victorian gentleman wearing an ineffable air of hauteur and a costume which suggested that he had begun to dress up as Mr. Sherlo…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

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17. Shroud of Darkness

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.24

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

One was brutally attacked in the choking black fog in Paddington Station. Attempted murder became b… read more

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  • classics
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18. The Tragedy at Freyne

By: Anthony Gilbert

4.11

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

When Sir Simon Chandos is found poisoned in his library, with a confession in front of him and a ph… read more

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  • classics
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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
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20. 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
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21. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.01

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more

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  • mystery
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22. The Scottish Ladies' Detective Agency (The Scottish Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)

By: Lydia Travers

3.97

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

When Maud McIntyre sets up her own private detective agency, she never imagines her first case will… read more

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23. Case in the Clinic

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.05

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

The story begins with the sudden death of an elderly clergyman named Anderby, who drops dead while … read more

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24. Fell Murder

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.08

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

'...this crime is conditioned by the place. To understand the one you've got to study the other.' … read more

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  • classics
"I set out this evening to learn something about the district, to study the roads and paths, and to get the hang of it, the feel of the land. It's no use rushing to ask questions when you're ignorant …"

-E.C.R. Lorac, Fell Murder

"Far below him, the River Lune wound its serpentine curves across the wide flood plane: beneath the clear September sky the water shone blue, flowing out to Morecambe Bay, whose golden sands gleamed p…"

-E.C.R. Lorac, Fell Murder

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25. The Case of the Running Bag (Jonas Watcher #1)

By: Gene Poschman

4.28

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

It Began with a Simple Accident, or was it an Attempted Murder? A femme fatale. Her missing husb… read more

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  • mystery
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26. 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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  • classics
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27. The Grell Mystery

By: Frank Froest

3.49

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Mr. Robert Grell, social idol, millionaire, diplomat, and winner of the greatest matrimonial prize … read more

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28. The Loudwater Mystery

By: Edgar Jepson

3.73

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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29. The Case of the Bourbon Street Hustler (Jonas Watcher #2)

By: Gene Poschman

4.15

Format: None pages, ebook

Murder in the Bayou! New Orleans, the Crescent City... An armed standoff between Louisiana State… read more

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30. 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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  • classics
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31. The Bittermeads Mystery

By: E.R. Punshon

3.54

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

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