18 Best mystery books like Murder Is a Serious Business by Elizabeth Dean

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Murder Is a Serious Business

By: Elizabeth Dean

3.33

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

1999 Rue Morgue Press larger trade paperback, Elizabeth Dean (Murder Is a Collector's Item Murder I…

If you liked the mystery plot in Murder Is a Serious Business by Elizabeth Dean , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of A Taste for Honey by H.F. Heard, Gerald Heard, Stacy Gillis, None

1. A Taste for Honey

By: H.F. Heard , Gerald Heard , Stacy Gillis , None

3.45

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

"Published in 2020 by arrangement with Penzler Publishers, LLC"--Copyright page. read more

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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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Cover of Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, Stephen Pearl, Galya Diment

3. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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4. 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
Cover of The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, Sōji Shimada, Ho-Ling Wong

5. The Decagon House Murders

By: Yukito Ayatsuji , Sōji Shimada , Ho-Ling Wong

2.50

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly mu… read more

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Cover of The Dutch Shoe Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #3) by Ellery Queen

6. The Dutch Shoe Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #3)

By: Ellery Queen

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Das Geheimnis der weissen Schuhe Wenn das keine Tragik ist: Gerade als Abigail Doorn in den Operati… read more

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Cover of Nine Times Nine (Sister Ursula, #1) by Anthony Boucher

7. Nine Times Nine (Sister Ursula, #1)

By: Anthony Boucher

3.50

Format: None pages,

The man in the yellow robe had put a curse on Wolfe Harrigan--the ancient curse called the Nine Tim… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Hons and Rebels by Christopher Hitchens, Jessica Mitford

8. Hons and Rebels

By: Christopher Hitchens , Jessica Mitford

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Jessica Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary English aristocratic fami… read more

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Cover of Postern of Fate (Tommy and Tuppence, #5) by Agatha Christie

9. Postern of Fate (Tommy and Tuppence, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.50

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of susp… read more

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  • mystery
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10. The Sittaford Mystery

By: Agatha Christie

3.76

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance… read more

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"I help those who can help themselves."

-Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery

"Sloppy crying had never helped anyone yet."

-Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery

"To cry at will is not an easy accomplishment."

-Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery

"Emily had the kind of personality that soars triumphantly over all obstacles."

-Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery

Cover of Full Moon (Blandings Castle, #7) by P.G. Wodehouse

11. Full Moon (Blandings Castle, #7)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Despite marriage to a millionaire's daughter and success as a vice-president of Donaldson's Inc., m… read more

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12. Puzzle for Fools

By: Patrick Quentin

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

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13. She Shall Have Murder (Jane and Dagobert Brown #1)

By: Delano Ames

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Dagobert Brown's always got a new hobby. He's been through Gregorian chant, wildflowers, sixteenth-… read more

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14. Mystery Mile (Albert Campion Mystery #2)

By: Margery Allingham

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

Judge Crowdy Lobbett has found evidence pointing to the identity of the criminal mastermind behind … read more

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15. The Corpse Steps Out

By: Craig Rice

3.86

Format: 138 pages,

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16. Foundation (Foundation, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.17

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series Fo… read more

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"Past glories are poor feeding."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. "

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"I shall not be alive a half decade hence,"

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

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17. So Shall You Reap

By: Donna Leon

4.07

Format: 262 pages, ebook

In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti… read more

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"Given Loreti's position in society, the press had followed, panting. But they were to be disappointed by the police's failure to find any sign of what the English call "foul play," and so the investi…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

"Brunetti, no fan of television, did occasionally watch nature documentaries, and so he was familiar with the pose cobras took when they were preparing to attack. They somehow managed to raise their h…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

Cover of The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff

18. The Fortnight in September

By: R.C. Sherriff

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more

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Cover of The Windsor Knot (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #1) by S.J.  Bennett

19. The Windsor Knot (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #1)

By: S.J. Bennett

3.52

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Great Hotel Murder (An American Mystery Classic) by Vincent Starrett

20. The Great Hotel Murder (An American Mystery Classic)

By: Vincent Starrett

3.46

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

In a grand Chicago hotel, a mysterious death sets a puzzling whodunnit in motion When a New York ba… read more

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"...when a man blends truth and falsehood skillfully in one comprehensive statement, it is difficult to tell the veracities from the fibs."

-Vincent Starrett, The Great Hotel Murder (An American Mystery Classic)

"The manner of a fool,' said Mr. Blackwood, 'when it masks the mental processes of a wise man, is an advantage of great worth to a detective."

-Vincent Starrett, The Great Hotel Murder (An American Mystery Classic)

"Trees that are only trees by daylight are many and various other things at night. They are lurking, impossible monsters of the animal world or crouching human ruffians, of ferocious aspect and intent…"

-Vincent Starrett, The Great Hotel Murder (An American Mystery Classic)

"They left the little city behind them and swung out into the open country. Immediately the trees resumed their solemn march on either side, very much -- it seemed to Blackwood -- as if they were file…"

-Vincent Starrett, The Great Hotel Murder (An American Mystery Classic)

Cover of Gallows Court (Rachel Savernake #1) by Martin Edwards

21. Gallows Court (Rachel Savernake #1)

By: Martin Edwards

3.69

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B079GXJPC8 LONDON, 1930 Sooty, sulphurous, and malign: no woman… read more

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Cover of Rocket to the Morgue (Sister Ursula #2) by Anthony Boucher

22. Rocket to the Morgue (Sister Ursula #2)

By: Anthony Boucher

3.57

Format: 176 pages, Mass Market Paperback

1st IPL edition paperback fine as new read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Obelists at Sea (Michael Lord #1) by C. Daly King

23. Obelists at Sea (Michael Lord #1)

By: C. Daly King

3.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

C. Daly King’s debut mystery is a tale of murder, travel, and psychiatry set aboard a luxury transa… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Jane and the Year Without a Summer (Jane Austen Mysteries, #14) by Stephanie Barron

24. Jane and the Year Without a Summer (Jane Austen Mysteries, #14)

By: Stephanie Barron

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"If you have a Jane Austen-would-have-been-my-best-friend complex, look no further . . . [Barron] h… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Death on the Aisle (Mr. and Mrs. North #4) by Frances Lockridge

25. Death on the Aisle (Mr. and Mrs. North #4)

By: Frances Lockridge

3.65

Format: 170 pages, Leather Bound

Broadway is undeniably a graveyard, but more often of men's hopes than men's bodies. And it is almo… read more

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  • mystery
"You read too much, Mr. Kirk," Weigand told him. "Such men get foolish ideas."

-Frances Lockridge, Death on the Aisle (Mr. and Mrs. North #4)

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26. Murder Is a Serious Business

By: Elizabeth Dean

3.33

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

1999 Rue Morgue Press larger trade paperback, Elizabeth Dean (Murder Is a Collector's Item Murder I… read more

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M.C. Beaton

3.93

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Susan Rowland

4.33

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Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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Robert Thorogood

3.92

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