10 best-selling mystery books like That Affair at Portstead Manor by Gladys Edson Locke

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That Affair at Portstead Manor

By: Gladys Edson Locke

3.29

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge…

If you liked the mystery plot in That Affair at Portstead Manor by Gladys Edson Locke , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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

1. 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 The Mystery of 31 New Inn by R. Austin Freeman

2. The Mystery of 31 New Inn

By: R. Austin Freeman

3.71

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The Mystery of 31 New Inn, a classic mystery novel by R. Austin Freeman, relates a puzzling tale fr… read more

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Cover of Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5) by Ngaio Marsh

3. Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Death served well-chilled The leading lady of a theater company touring New Zealand was stunning… read more

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"What do you think, Mr Alleyn? If there's another war will the young chaps come at it, same as we did, thinking it's great? And get the same jolt? What do you reckon?" "I'm afraid to speculate," said …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

"My poor fat Alfie! He was not a romantic husband, but he was so kind and understanding. He never minded whether I was amusing or dull. He thought it impossible that I could be dull. I didn't have to …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

Cover of The Beckoning Lady (Albert Campion #15) by Margery Allingham

4. 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

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5. The Eye of Osiris

By: R. Austin Freeman

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

John Bellingham is a world-renowned archaeologist who goes missing mysteriously after returning fro… read more

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6. Trent's Last Case (Philip Trent, #1)

By: E.C. Bentley

4.37

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

On Wall Street, the mere mention of the name Sigsbee Manderson is enough to send a stock soaring--o… read more

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7. Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

An elderly lady is on her way to Scotland Yard to report several murders in her village. "It is ver… read more

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8. The Lake District Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #1)

By: John Bude

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a body is found at an isolated garage, Inspector Meredith is drawn into a complex investigatio… read more

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Cover of The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1) by John Buchan

9. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

By: John Buchan

3.60

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more

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"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

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10. Impact of Evidence

By: Carol Carnac

4.11

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Near St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a… read more

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Cover of The Wintringham Mystery by Anthony Berkeley

11. The Wintringham Mystery

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the fo… read more

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"For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity."

-Anthony Berkeley, The Wintringham Mystery

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

12. 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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Cover of Murder at the British Museum (Museum Mysteries, #2) by Jim Eldridge

13. Murder at the British Museum (Museum Mysteries, #2)

By: Jim Eldridge

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

1894. A well-respected academic is found dead in a gentlemen's convenience cubicle at the British M… read more

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Cover of That Affair at Portstead Manor by Gladys Edson Locke

14. That Affair at Portstead Manor

By: Gladys Edson Locke

3.29

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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16 Best fiction books like Murder at the British Museum (Museum Mysteries, #2) by Jim Eldridge

Transform Your Habits

Murder on the Marmora (George Porter Dillman & Genevieve Masefield, #5)

Conrad Allen

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Tour de Force

Christianna Brand

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Murder on the Oceanic (George Porter Dillman & Genevieve Masefield, #7)

Conrad Allen

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

Ngaio Marsh

3.83

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