17 Best mystery books like The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4) by Gladys Mitchell

Cover of The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4) by Gladys Mitchell

The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

By: Gladys Mitchell

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the vicar's wife discovers that her unmarried housemaid is pregnant, sometime detective and fu…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4) by Gladys Mitchell , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Religious Body (Inspector Sloan #1) by Catherine Aird

1. The Religious Body (Inspector Sloan #1)

By: Catherine Aird

3.81

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Inspector C.D. Sloan of the Calleshire C.I.D. makes his first appearance here as he looks into the … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Aird's The Religious Body (Inspector Sloan #1) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Sloane wasn't interested. As a police officer he was concerned with crime, not punishment."

-Catherine Aird, The Religious Body (Inspector Sloan #1)

Cover of Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10) by Ngaio Marsh

2. Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)

By: Ngaio Marsh

4.00

Format: 303 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Murder becomes a family affair... The Lampreys were a charming, eccentric happy-go-lucky family, t… read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12) by Margery Allingham

3. 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

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

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

4. 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

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • 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 Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3) by Christianna Brand

5. Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3)

By: Christianna Brand

3.56

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In the height of an English summer, Grandfather is found dead in the little Grecian lodge among the… read more

Similar categories in Christianna Brand's Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • british literature
  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Sweet Danger (Albert Campion Mystery #5) by Margery Allingham

7. Sweet Danger (Albert Campion Mystery #5)

By: Margery Allingham

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The impoverished Fitton family inhabit a run-down mill in a Suffolk village, and suspect their brot… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's Sweet Danger (Albert Campion Mystery #5) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of A Wreath for Rivera (Roderick Alleyn, #15) by Ngaio Marsh

8. A Wreath for Rivera (Roderick Alleyn, #15)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Red-hot jazz meets cold-blooded murder. When Lord Pastern Bagott takes up with the hot music of Bre… read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's A Wreath for Rivera (Roderick Alleyn, #15) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4) by Gladys Mitchell

9. The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

By: Gladys Mitchell

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the vicar's wife discovers that her unmarried housemaid is pregnant, sometime detective and fu… read more

Similar categories in Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • british literature
  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • 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

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • 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 Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4) by Ngaio Marsh

11. Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of th… read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Look here,' said Nigel suddenly, 'let's pretend it's a detective novel. Where would we be by this time? About halfway through, I should think. Well, who's your pick' 'I am invariably gulled by detect…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)

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

12. 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

Similar categories in Josephine Tey's A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Murder Must Advertise  (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10) by Dorothy L. Sayers

13. Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.17

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable Lond… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy L. Sayers's Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"How do you do?"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"Bredon shuddered. “I think this is an awfully immoral job of ours. I do, really. Think how we spoil the digestions of the public."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"It's a curious thing, but people cannot resist anonymous letters. It's like free sample offers. They appeal to all one's lower instincts."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"The interview with the cat had been particularly full of appeal. The animal was, it seemed, an illustrious rat-catcher, with many famous deeds to her credit. Not only that, but she had been the first…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

14. The Documents in the Case

By: Dorothy L. Sayers , Robert Eustace

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

The grotesquely grinning corpse in the Devonshire shack was a man who died horribly -- with a dish … read more

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15. Murder by Matchlight (Robert MacDonald, #25)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.76

Format: 360 pages,

read more

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16. The Water Room (Bryant & May, #2)

By: Christopher Fowler

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

They are detection's oddest couple: two cranky detectives whose professional partnership dates back… read more

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Cover of Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11) by Ngaio Marsh

17. Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

The party's over when murder makes an entrance...With the notion of bringing together the most bitt… read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"With corpses stiffening on the premises, sir, all things be possible to a man with a desperate powerful idea egging him on."

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"They were fortified with all the resilience that youth presents to an emotional shock. In the midst of murder and attempted suicide, they had managed, not only to behave with address and good sense, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"For some reason that he had never been able to understand, Mandrake was a man in whom his fellow-creatures confided. He was by no means obviously sympathetic and he seldom asked for confidences but, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"Beneath it hung a faded photograph in an Oxford frame. It presented a Victorian gentleman wearing an ineffable air of hauteur and a costume which suggested that he had begun to dress up as Mr. Sherlo…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

18. 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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Cover of Impact of Evidence by Carol Carnac

19. 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

Similar categories in Carol Carnac's Impact of Evidence book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac

20. 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

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's Post After Post-Mortem book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Murderer's Mistake (Robert Macdonald #28) by E.C.R. Lorac

21. Murderer's Mistake (Robert Macdonald #28)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.07

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

It's not long after the end of WWII, rationing is still in force in the UK, and Chief Inspector Mac… read more

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's Murderer's Mistake (Robert Macdonald #28) book and Gladys Mitchell's The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature

17 Top fiction books like The Saltmarsh Murders (Mrs. Bradley, #4) by Gladys Mitchell

Transform Your Habits

The Religious Body (Inspector Sloan #1)

Catherine Aird

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)

Ngaio Marsh

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

Margery Allingham

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

Ngaio Marsh

3.71

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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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