21 must-read crime books like Corpse at the Carnival (Inspector Littlejohn #29) by George Bellairs

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Corpse at the Carnival (Inspector Littlejohn #29)

By: George Bellairs

4.13

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

The old man on the empty promenade died, without a complaint, a convulsion, or a single sound. It …

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Cover of Miss Silver Deals With Death (Miss Silver, #6) by Patricia Wentworth

1. Miss Silver Deals With Death (Miss Silver, #6)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.04

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

When her fiancé, Giles Armitage, is lost at sea in the middle of the Second World War, Meade Underw… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Il giorno dei morti: L'autunno del commissario Ricciardi by Maurizio de Giovanni

2. Il giorno dei morti: L'autunno del commissario Ricciardi

By: Maurizio de Giovanni

4.25

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

Il commissario Ricciardi è protagonista indiscusso della scena criminale della Napoli degli anni Tr… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"Fate does as it pleases, but sometimes it needs a little push."

-Maurizio de Giovanni, Il giorno dei morti: L'autunno del commissario Ricciardi

Cover of The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1) by Martha Grimes

3. The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1)

By: Martha Grimes

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

At the Man with a Load of Mischief, they found the dead body stuck in a keg of beer. At the Jack an… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. "Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petits fours a fr…"

-Martha Grimes, The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1)

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

4. 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
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5. Green for Danger

By: Christianna Brand

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in a military hospital during the blitz, this novel is one of Brand's most intricately plotted … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Second Confession (Nero Wolfe, #15) by Rex Stout, William G. Tapply

6. The Second Confession (Nero Wolfe, #15)

By: Rex Stout , William G. Tapply

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a millionaire businessman hires the sedentary detective to snoop on his daughter's boyfriend, … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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7. Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

4.04

Format: 288 pages,

Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this he… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

8. Envious Casca (Inspector Hemingway Mystery #2)

By: Georgette Heyer

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

It is no ordinary Christmas at Lexham Manor. Six holiday guests find themselves the suspects of a m… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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9. Death and the Chapman (Roger the Chapman, #1)

By: Kate Sedley

3.66

Format: 146 pages,

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  • mystery

10. Mystery in the Channel

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

4.12

Format: 176 pages,

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Three Doors to Death (Nero Wolfe, #16) by Rex Stout, Jonathan Kellerman

11. Three Doors to Death (Nero Wolfe, #16)

By: Rex Stout , Jonathan Kellerman

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

Three cases bring perplexing challenges to Nero Wolfe, as a man unsuccessfully attempts suicide jus… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Death at Wentwater Court (Daisy Dalrymple, #1) by Carola Dunn

12. Death at Wentwater Court (Daisy Dalrymple, #1)

By: Carola Dunn

4.27

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

6 parts 6 hours 38 minutes This first installment of a cozy mystery series transports listeners bac… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Sussex Downs Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #2) by Martin Edwards, John Bude

13. The Sussex Downs Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #2)

By: Martin Edwards , John Bude

4.72

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murde… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

14. A Mind to Murder (Adam Dalgliesh #2)

By: None

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

The second book to feature Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh, A Mind To Murder is a "superb… read more

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15. The Hog's Back Mystery

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

5.00

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

'As pretty a piece of work as Inspector French has done ... On the level of Mr Crofts' very best; w… read more

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16. Innocent Blood

By: None , P.D. James

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter o… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much."

-None, Innocent Blood

"The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted. "

-None, Innocent Blood

"Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity."

-None, Innocent Blood

"People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?"

-None, Innocent Blood

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. Parting Breath (Inspector Sloan #7)

By: Catherine Aird

3.49

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Murder in the Quadrangle The college dons at the University of Calleshire fully expected trouble wh… read more

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19. The Black Cat Murders (Heathcliff Lennox, #2)

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin

4.24

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Downton Abbey meets Agatha Christie with a touch of Wodehouse and a dog of distinction. Who killed … read more

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  • mystery
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20. Murder in Blue

By: Clifford Witting

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

No ISBN The author's first novel. The story concerns John Rutherford, proprietor of an Englis… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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21. Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.90

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Ingenious’ Times Literary SupplementThe second of ten ‘Roger Sheringham’ detective novelsThis 2023… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Bedroom Window Murder: A 1940s 'Country House' Mystery (Chief Inspector Bryce Murder Mysteries Book 1) by Peter Zander-Howell

22. The Bedroom Window Murder: A 1940s 'Country House' Mystery (Chief Inspector Bryce Murder Mysteries Book 1)

By: Peter Zander-Howell

4.28

Format: None pages, None

It is 1949. Sir Francis Sherwood - WW1 hero, landowner, magistrate - is shot dead while standing at… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Death of an Author by E.C.R. Lorac

23. 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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24. 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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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Fourth Enemy (Daniel Pitt #6) by Anne Perry

25. The Fourth Enemy (Daniel Pitt #6)

By: Anne Perry

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Daniel Pitt prosecutes a beloved philanthropist whose good deeds may hide dark--and dangerous--secr… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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26. 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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27. The Night of Fear

By: Moray Dalton

3.91

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

Together they looked down at the inert sprawling figure of a man fantastically dressed in red-and-w… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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28. A Case of Perplexity in Piccadilly (Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventures #7)

By: Clara Benson

4.24

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

West End theatre impresario Septimus Gooch is a man with many enemies, but when he's found dead in … read more

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  • mystery
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29. Corpse at the Carnival (Inspector Littlejohn #29)

By: George Bellairs

4.13

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

The old man on the empty promenade died, without a complaint, a convulsion, or a single sound. It … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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30. Rope’s End, Rogue’s End

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.05

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

From the dust jacket: Wulfstane Manor, a rambling old country house with many unused rooms, winding… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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31. Omit Flowers

By: Stuart Palmer

3.72

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

Un telegramma, che porta la firma di un uomo morto sei mesi prima, provoca una riunione di famiglia… read more

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  • mystery

27 must-read mystery books like Corpse at the Carnival (Inspector Littlejohn #29) by George Bellairs

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Miss Silver Deals With Death (Miss Silver, #6)

Patricia Wentworth

4.04

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Il giorno dei morti: L'autunno del commissario Ricciardi

Maurizio de Giovanni

4.25

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The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1)

Martha Grimes

3.99

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Margery Allingham

3.99

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Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Christianna Brand

3.55

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Green for Danger

Christianna Brand

3.69

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The Sussex Downs Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #2)

Martin Edwards , John Bude

4.72

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Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)

Anthony Berkeley

3.77

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