17 Top mystery books like Murder at the Pageant by Victor L. Whitechurch

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Murder at the Pageant

By: Victor L. Whitechurch

3.84

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

At Frimley Manor, plans are afoot for a pageant in which house guests are to be treated to a re-ena…

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1. 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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2. Miss Pym Disposes

By: Josephine Tey

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

To Lucy Pym, author of a best-seller on Psychology, the atmosphere at the college where she is lect… read more

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3. The Problem of the Green Capsule (Dr. Gideon Fell, #10)

By: John Dickson Carr

4.75

Format: None pages,

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4. A Presumption of Death (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #2)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers , Jill Paton Walsh

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

While Lord Peter is abroad on a secret mission, Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, takes their ch… read more

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5. The Chinese Shawl (Miss Silver, #5)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.94

Format: 256 pages,

Miss Silver must intervene when an age-old family feud returns with fatal effect All London loves T… read more

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6. The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old scho… read more

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"It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

"Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

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7. Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.24

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Society’s eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally suc… read more

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"in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

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8. Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.77

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

When a murder is committed at a party given in honour of a famous writer-detective, the guests impe… read more

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9. The Missing Link: A Golden Age Murder Mystery

By: George Varney

3.90

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Detective mystery in a sinister old mansion’ Daily Sketch‘Effortless telling of a good story’ The … read more

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10. 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

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11. Exterior to the Evidence

By: J.S. Fletcher

3.59

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

At the foot of Black Scar, the loneliest spot on the moors and the most dangerous, lay the body of … read more

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12. 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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13. The Canal Murders (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries, #10)

By: J.R. Ellis

4.28

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Life moves at a slower pace on the canals. But death always comes when you least expect it. The las… read more

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14. 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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15. 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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16. The Case with Three Threads: An English Country House Murder Mystery

By: Anthony Lang

3.84

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Effortless telling of a good story’ The Observer‘Murder most ingeniously contrived’ New York Times… read more

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17. Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.97

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Who fired the fatal shot that snuffed out the life of miserly old Folliner during a London blackout… read more

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"Mind the cat."

-E.C.R. Lorac, Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)

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18. Fire in the Thatch (Robert MacDonald #27)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.08

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accid… read more

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19. 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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20. The Doctors are Doubtful: An Inspector Treadgold Mystery (Merlin Classic Crime)

By: Anthony Weymouth

4.22

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Ingenious’ THE TIMES‘Original and interesting’ DOROTHY L. SAYERS in the SUNDAY TIMES‘A well-writte… read more

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21. The Mill House Murder

By: J.S. Fletcher

4.01

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

It tells of the murder of James Martenroyde, a Yorkshire mill-owner who is about to marry for the s… read more

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22. The Crime

By: Anthony Lang

4.14

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A brilliantly-written detective story’ The Daily Mail‘A detective story of the first order’ Cassel… read more

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23. The Cartwright Gardens Murder

By: J.S. Fletcher

3.73

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

The Cartwright Gardens Murder is another one of those stories of crime which made Mr. Fletcher one … read more

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24. The Fleet Hall Inheritance: A 1930s Thriller (Black Heath Classic Crime)

By: Richard Keverne

3.84

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

“The solitude of the place was almost frightening. Anything might happen here, in this lonely waste… read more

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25. Hard Liver: An Inspector Treadgold Mystery (Merlin Classic Crime)

By: Anthony Weymouth

4.11

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A thriller of the first rank’ DAILY SKETCH‘An extremely skilful novel’ THE BOOKSELLER‘Mr Weymouth … read more

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26. Black Beadle (Robert MacDonald #16)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Blackmail and its consequences play a big part in ECR Lorac's 1939 masterpiece of understatement an… read more

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27. Fly Country: A Golden Age Murder Mystery

By: Anthony Lang

4.05

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A neatly constructed plot which is distinctly out of the ordinary’ The Times‘An excellent mystery … read more

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28. Murder in the Squire's Pew (A Ronald Camberwell Mystery)

By: J.S. Fletcher

3.96

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

The private eye Ronald Camberwell and his associate Chaney are called to investigate about the myst… read more

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29. Murder in Four Degrees

By: J.S. Fletcher

3.94

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

When the famous editor of Lord Cheverdale's paper, the Daily Sentinel, is found brutally killed on … read more

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30. Evidence: A Golden Age Murder Mystery (Merlin Classic Crime)

By: Anthony Lang

4.25

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

'A baffling mystery' DAILY NEWS'Clever. . . EVIDENCE is the kind of book you cannot leave. . .' EDI… read more

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31. Murder at the Pageant

By: Victor L. Whitechurch

3.84

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

At Frimley Manor, plans are afoot for a pageant in which house guests are to be treated to a re-ena… read more

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17 best-selling fiction books like Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac

Transform Your Habits

Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Christianna Brand

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Green for Danger

Christianna Brand

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Sussex Downs Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #2)

Martin Edwards , John Bude

4.72

Transform Your Habits

Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)

Anthony Berkeley

3.77

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