7 Best british literature books like A Dandy in Aspic by Derek Marlowe

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A Dandy in Aspic

By: Derek Marlowe

3.57

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Alexander Eberlin is a small, faceless civil servant working for the Government at the height of th…

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1. Ashenden

By: W. Somerset Maugham , None

3.87

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Maugham had the perfect cover for living… read more

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  • espionage
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"-Hay cierta elegancia en malgastar el tiempo -repuso Ashenden-. Cualquier cretino es capaz de despilfarrar dinero, pero cuando uno gasta su propio tiempo tiene el placer de tirar una cosa que no tien…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

"Los hechos son narradores pobres. Empienzan la historia por azar, generalmente mucho antes del principio, divagan inconsecuentes y decaen, dejando posibles finales colgados y sin conclusión. Trabajan…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

"R. terminó su relato y miró a Ashenden, dejando escapar un relámpago por la ranura de sus ojos medio cerrados. -Es novelesco, ¿no le parece? -preguntó. -¿Y me dice usted que eso ha ocurrido hace poco…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

"I gather from what you have not said that he is an unmitigated scoundrel." R. smiled with his pale blue eyes. "I don't know that I'd go quite so far as that. He hasn't had the value of a public-schoo…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

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
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Love Lies Bleeding (Gervase Fen, #5) by Edmund Crispin

3. Love Lies Bleeding (Gervase Fen, #5)

By: Edmund Crispin

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Castrevenford school invites English professor and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen to present the prizes… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Night at the Vulcan (Roderick Alleyn, #16) by Ngaio Marsh

4. Night at the Vulcan (Roderick Alleyn, #16)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

A London actor was dying for a star billing... From the leading lady's liaison to the harassment of… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • british literature
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5. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more

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  • mystery
  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
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6. Missing You

By: Harlan Coben

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan fo… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction

7. Traitor's Purse (Albert Campion Mystery #11)

By: Margery Allingham

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

Celebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital accused of attacking a police office… read more

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8. A Dangerous Fortune

By: Ken Follett

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious … read more

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9. Murder by Matchlight (Robert MacDonald, #25)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.76

Format: 360 pages,

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10. Longshot

By: Dick Francis

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

'The plot gallops forward irresistibly and the story is perfectly worked out' Sunday Times read more

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11. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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  • espionage
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

Cover of Left You Dead (Roy Grace, #17) by Peter James

12. Left You Dead (Roy Grace, #17)

By: Peter James

4.35

Format: 508 pages, Kindle Edition

NO BODY. NO TRACE. NO CRIME? Niall and Eden Paternoster start their Sunday the same way they al… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • british literature
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13. A Spy Alone

By: Charles Beaumont

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more

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  • mystery
  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
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14. Past Transgressions (Mason Nash #1)

By: Dave Sinclair

4.32

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

Retired spy. Trained killing machine. Pacifist. Retired MI6 spy Mason Nash moved to a sleepy Eng… read more

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  • mystery
  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
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15. Old School

By: Tobias Wolff

3.84

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy… read more

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  • fiction
"a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life."

-Tobias Wolff, Old School

"The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness."

-Tobias Wolff, Old School

"The stories you have to write will always make someone hate your guts. If they don't you're just producing words."

-Tobias Wolff, Old School

"The life that produces writing can't be written about. Is is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below the mind's business and noise, in deep unlit shafts where phantom messen…"

-Tobias Wolff, Old School

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16. One Lost Soul (Hidden Norfolk #1)

By: J.M. Dalgliesh

4.08

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

The darkest secrets often hide in plain sight… When a body is found on a lonely cliff top path, … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Bucharest Unbound (Alex Kovacs 12) by Richard Wake

17. Bucharest Unbound (Alex Kovacs 12)

By: Richard Wake

4.28

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

ALEX KOVACS IS BACK, DESPERATELY TRYING NOT TO BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS HIM. Or, rather, the hand … read more

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18. Dark Secrets (Cavendish & Walker, #11)

By: Sally Rigby

4.45

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

An uninvited guest…a deadly secret….and a terrible crime. When a well-loved family of five are f… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
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Cover of When Wolves Gather (Shadows of War Book 6) by C.W. Browning

19. When Wolves Gather (Shadows of War Book 6)

By: C.W. Browning

4.51

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

While Great Britain stands alone against the might of the Third Reich, an even more sinister threat… read more

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Cover of A Dandy in Aspic by Derek Marlowe

20. A Dandy in Aspic

By: Derek Marlowe

3.57

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Alexander Eberlin is a small, faceless civil servant working for the Government at the height of th… read more

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  • espionage
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Reunion in Prague (Alex Kovacs thriller series Book 13) by Richard Wake

21. Reunion in Prague (Alex Kovacs thriller series Book 13)

By: Richard Wake

4.37

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

WHEN FAMILY TIES LEAD TO DEADLY CONSEQUENCES.Everyman spy Alex Kovacs returns to action in Reunion … read more

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14 must-read fiction books like A Dandy in Aspic by Derek Marlowe

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W. Somerset Maugham , None

3.87

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Margery Allingham

3.99

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Love Lies Bleeding (Gervase Fen, #5)

Edmund Crispin

4.39

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Ngaio Marsh

3.91

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M.A. Comley

3.92

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L.J. Ross

4.64

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Joy Ellis

4.30

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Joy Ellis

3.97

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