12 best-selling british literature books like The Watersplash (Miss Silver, #21) by Patricia Wentworth

Cover of The Watersplash (Miss Silver, #21) by Patricia Wentworth

The Watersplash (Miss Silver, #21)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

Classic cosy crime from a master of the genre now in stunning new retro packaging

If you liked the british literature plot in The Watersplash (Miss Silver, #21) by Patricia Wentworth , here is a list of 12 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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  • mystery thriller
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2) by Ngaio Marsh

2. Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.82

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued - the second Roderick Alleyn Mystery. The crime scene was the … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) by Ngaio Marsh

3. The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ngaio Marsh's bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Do you read crime fiction?"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"They do a certain amount of mischief, they're an almighty nuisance, but as murderers I've no real faith in the British anarchist."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"Nash, who carried in his head a sort of social ladder, had quietly decided that police officers of all ranks were to be graded with piano tuners."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"... In our midst—in our very midst, Matron—are secret agents, secret societies, powers of evil known to the Yard but unsuspected by the general public. Mercifully so." He stopped short, folded his ar…"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

Cover of Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13) by Ngaio Marsh

4. Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13)

By: Ngaio Marsh

4.09

Format: 129 pages,

One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patrioti… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5) by Ngaio Marsh

5. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"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 A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1) by Ngaio Marsh

6. A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey

7. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Beckoning Lady (Albert Campion #15) by Margery Allingham

8. 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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  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Watersplash (Miss Silver, #21) by Patricia Wentworth

9. The Watersplash (Miss Silver, #21)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

Classic cosy crime from a master of the genre now in stunning new retro packaging read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8) by Ngaio Marsh

10. Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

It was planned as an act of a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"It's like one of those affairs in books," said Bailey disgustedly."Someone trying to think up a new way to do a murder. Silly, I call it." "What do you say, Roper?" said Alleyn. "To my way of thinkin…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

Cover of A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard

11. A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Sco… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature

12. More Work for the Undertaker (Albert Campion Mystery, #13)

By: Margery Allingham

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

Elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion investigates two deaths in the eccentric Palinode hou… read more

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13. The Wall

By: John Hersey

3.50

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Riveting & compelling, The Walltells the inspiring story of forty men & women who escape the dehuma… read more

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14. Artists in Crime (Roderick Alleyn, #6)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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15. A Civil Contract

By: Georgette Heyer

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Adam Deveril, a hero of Salamanca, returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink o… read more

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16. To Love and Be Wise (Inspector Alan Grant, #4)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a strikingly handsome young photographer mysteriously disappears, it's up to Inspector Alan Gr… read more

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Cover of The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard

17. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"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)

18. Death at the Bar (Roderick Alleyn, #9)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A cosy game of darts in a cosy English pub is going well until one of the players dies on the spot.… read more

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19. Death in a White Tie (Roderick Alleyn, #7)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's… read more

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20. The Stately Home Murder (Inspector Sloan, #3)

By: Catherine Aird

4.64

Format: 272 pages,

A dead body in a case of armor, a once-wealthy earl with lots to hide, a sprawling estate stacked w… read more

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21. Cluny Brown

By: Margery Sharp

2.83

Format: 288 pages,

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3.99

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Ngaio Marsh

3.82

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3.71

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Nicola Upson

3.52

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John Dickson Carr

3.91

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3.96

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Christianna Brand

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