20 must-read mystery books like The Dancing Druids by Gladys Mitchell

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The Dancing Druids

By: Gladys Mitchell

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The nine rocks known as The Dancing Druids had become objects of mystery and suspicion in their loc…

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Cover of Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10) by Ngaio Marsh

1. Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)

By: Ngaio Marsh

4.00

Format: 303 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Murder becomes a family affair... The Lampreys were a charming, eccentric happy-go-lucky family, t… read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Dancing Druids

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12) by Margery Allingham

2. Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

By: Margery Allingham

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Albert Campion returns from three years’ work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his m… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Mind Readers (Albert Campion Mystery, #18) by Margery Allingham

3. 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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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) by Ngaio Marsh

4. The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ngaio Marsh's bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime… read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Dancing Druids

  • mystery
  • crime
"Do you read crime fiction?"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"They do a certain amount of mischief, they're an almighty nuisance, but as murderers I've no real faith in the British anarchist."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"Nash, who carried in his head a sort of social ladder, had quietly decided that police officers of all ranks were to be graded with piano tuners."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"... In our midst—in our very midst, Matron—are secret agents, secret societies, powers of evil known to the Yard but unsuspected by the general public. Mercifully so." He stopped short, folded his ar…"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

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5. Tour de Force

By: Christianna Brand

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

The vacationing Inspector Cockrill is on the job again when a fellow tourist is stabbed to death on… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3) by Christianna Brand

6. Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3)

By: Christianna Brand

3.56

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In the height of an English summer, Grandfather is found dead in the little Grecian lodge among the… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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7. The Beckoning Lady (Albert Campion #15)

By: Margery Allingham

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Albert Campion, family, Lugg and DCI Charles Luke are on hand in Suffolk when friends Minnie and To… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's The Beckoning Lady (Albert Campion #15) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Dancing Druids

  • mystery
  • crime

8. Death of a Ghost (Albert Campion Mystery #6)

By: Margery Allingham

4.03

Format: 246 pages,

The first killing took place at a crowded art show, in full view of the cream of London society. Fo… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's Death of a Ghost (Albert Campion Mystery #6) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Dancing Druids

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The China Governess (Albert Campion Mystery #17) by Margery Allingham

9. The China Governess (Albert Campion Mystery #17)

By: Margery Allingham

4.03

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Timothy Kinnit, rich, handsome, well-bred, learns on the eve of his elopement, that he was adopted.… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's The China Governess (Albert Campion Mystery #17) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Dancing Druids

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #29) by Agatha Christie

10. After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #29)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister in this classic from … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

11. Look to the Lady (Albert Campion Mystery #3)

By: Margery Allingham

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

A ring of international thieves target the Gyrth Chalice, a priceless goblet held by centuries of G… read more

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12. Artists in Crime (Roderick Alleyn, #6)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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13. Pilgrim's Rest (Miss Silver, #10)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.40

Format: None pages,

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14. Sparkling Cyanide (Colonel Race, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Six people reunite to remember beautiful Rosemary Barton, who died nearly a year before. The loving… read more

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15. Flowers for the Judge (Albert Campion Mystery, #7)

By: Margery Allingham

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead i… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's Flowers for the Judge (Albert Campion Mystery, #7) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Dancing Druids

  • mystery
  • crime

16. Information Received (The Bobby Owen Mysteries, #1)

By: E.R. Punshon

4.00

Format: 186 pages,

Description In his London townhouse, city magnate Sir Christopher Clarke is found lying murdered. A… read more

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17. Night Walk

By: Bob Shaw

3.80

Format: 281 pages, Mass Market Paperback

For 'refusing to co-operate' the Emm Luther Special Police took out Earth agent Sam Tallon's eyes a… read more

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18. 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

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Dancing Druids

  • mystery
  • crime
"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)

19. Scales of Justice (Roderick Alleyn, #18)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Format: 244 pages,

The quiet village of Swevenings seemed an English pastoral paradise, until the savagely beaten body… read more

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20. The Strong Room: A Golden Age Mystery

By: R.A.J. Walling

4.05

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

Golden Age of Crime writer R.A.J. Walling’s first-ever crime novel, republished here for the first … read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Fatal Glove: A Noel Pinson Mystery (Merlin Classic Crime) by R.A.J. Walling

21. The Fatal Glove: A Noel Pinson Mystery (Merlin Classic Crime)

By: R.A.J. Walling

4.19

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

First serialised in newspapers in 1917.Never published in book form beforeA classic mystery by R.A.… read more

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22. 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
"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

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23. 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
  • crime
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24. 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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  • mystery
  • crime
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25. Tragedy at the Unicorn

By: John Rhode

4.26

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The best detective story of 1928’ Times Literary Supplement'A case of suicide, accident or murder?… read more

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  • mystery
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26. 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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27. The Dinner Party at Bardolph's: A Golden Age Murder Mystery (Merlin Classic Crime)

By: R.A. J. Walling

4.25

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Edward Bardolph is an incredibly successful financier - he is also despised by many - with good rea… read more

Similar categories in R.A. J. Walling's The Dinner Party at Bardolph's: A Golden Age Murder Mystery (Merlin Classic Crime) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Dancing Druids

  • mystery
Cover of Shades of Darkness by Malcolm Torrie

28. Shades of Darkness

By: Malcolm Torrie

4.05

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

A body lies in wait for Timothy Herring. While scouting locations for a movie producer, Timothy and… read more

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Cover of A Killer in the Wings (Lord Edgington Investigates, #11) by Benedict Brown

29. A Killer in the Wings (Lord Edgington Investigates, #11)

By: Benedict Brown

4.42

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

A murder on the stage of a packed theatre, a company of actors ripped apart by rivalries, and a sec… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Man with the Squeaky Voice by R A J Walling

30. The Man with the Squeaky Voice

By: R A J Walling

4.23

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Alfred John Walling (11 January 1869, Exeter – 4 September 1949 Plympton) was an English jou… read more

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31. The Dancing Druids

By: Gladys Mitchell

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The nine rocks known as The Dancing Druids had become objects of mystery and suspicion in their loc… read more

Similar categories in Gladys Mitchell's The Dancing Druids book and Gladys Mitchell's The Dancing Druids

  • mystery
  • crime

16 Best crime books like The Dancing Druids by Gladys Mitchell

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Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)

Ngaio Marsh

4.00

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Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

Margery Allingham

3.99

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The Mind Readers (Albert Campion Mystery, #18)

Margery Allingham

3.47

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Ngaio Marsh

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Lonesome Road (Miss Silver, #3)

Patricia Wentworth

3.97

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Patricia Wentworth

4.06

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3.86

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