14 best-selling mystery books like Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1) by Dorothy L. Sayers

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Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.84

Format: 212 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for …

"But if you were investigating a crime,"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"Well, it’s no good jumping at conclusions."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"Oh damn!' said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"I trust you told her I had succumbed to lethargic encephalitis suddenly, no flowers by request."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

If you liked the mystery plot in Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1) by Dorothy L. Sayers , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Who can forget our beloved gentleman's personal gentleman, Jeeves, who ever comes to the rescue whe… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Come on," he said. "Bring the poker." I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it."

-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

"I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class."

-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

"What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean."

-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

"It was one of those jolly, peaceful mornings that make a chappie wish he'd got a soul or something"

-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

Cover of The Floating Admiral by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, Freeman Wills Crofts, Clemence Dane, Victor L. Whitechurch, The Detection Club, Anthony Berkeley, Ronald Knox, Edgar Jepson, Henry Wade, Milward Kennedy, John Rhode, G.D.H. Cole, Margaret Cole

2. The Floating Admiral

By: Agatha Christie , Dorothy L. Sayers , G.K. Chesterton , Freeman Wills Crofts , Clemence Dane , Victor L. Whitechurch , The Detection Club , Anthony Berkeley , Ronald Knox , Edgar Jepson , Henry Wade , Milward Kennedy , John Rhode , G.D.H. Cole , Margaret Cole

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. Bu… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by our own private interpretation of the matter, we can see on…"

-Agatha Christie, The Floating Admiral

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3. The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

3.85

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"It's dangerous to know too much."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Shades of Pelmanism!’ said Tommy, and relapsed into silence."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

"Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best."

-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

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4. The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2) by Ngaio Marsh

5. 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
  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) by Ngaio Marsh

6. 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
  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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 A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1) by Ngaio Marsh

7. 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
  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1) by Agatha Christie

8. Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Murder at the Vicaragemarks the debut of Agatha Christie's unflappable and much beloved female dete… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
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  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1) by Margery Allingham

9. The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)

By: Margery Allingham

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A house party is under way at the remote mansion of Black Dudley, and among the guests are some ver… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"George Abbershaw's prosaic mind quivered on the verge of poetry when he looked at her."

-Margery Allingham, The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)

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10. The Red House Mystery

By: A.A. Milne

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyor… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Whose Body?  (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1) by Dorothy L. Sayers

11. Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.84

Format: 212 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for … read more

Similar categories in Dorothy L. Sayers's Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1) book and Dorothy L. Sayers's Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"But if you were investigating a crime,"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"Well, it’s no good jumping at conclusions."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"Oh damn!' said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"I trust you told her I had succumbed to lethargic encephalitis suddenly, no flowers by request."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

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

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  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Late Scholar (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #4) by Jill Paton Walsh

13. The Late Scholar (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #4)

By: Jill Paton Walsh

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A new murder mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey - now a Duke - and his wife Harriet Vane, set in a… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

14. The Attenbury Emeralds (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #3)

By: Jill Paton Walsh

5.00

Format: None pages,

In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later,… read more

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15. 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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16. The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1)

By: Josephine Tey

3.77

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the… read more

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  • detective
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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

17. The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown, #1)

By: G.K. Chesterton

0.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes a… read more

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18. 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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19. 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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20. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

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"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

Cover of The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2) by Agatha Christie

21. The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

By: Agatha Christie

3.87

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-s… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Two people rarely see the same thing."

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

"Again you have the sentiment and not the logic!"

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

"[...] She is not for you, that one! Take it from Papa Poirot!"

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

"Mon ami, двоє людей рідко можуть похвалитись, що бачать однакові речі"

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

15 best-selling fiction books like Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1) by Dorothy L. Sayers

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My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

P.G. Wodehouse

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Floating Admiral

Agatha Christie , Dorothy L. Sayers , G.K. Chesterton , Freeman Wills Crofts , Clemence Dane , Victor L. Whitechurch , The Detection Club , Anthony Berkeley , Ronald Knox , Edgar Jepson , Henry Wade , Milward Kennedy , John Rhode , G.D.H. Cole , Margaret Cole

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

Agatha Christie

3.85

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The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

Agatha Christie

3.98

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Lonesome Road (Miss Silver, #3)

Patricia Wentworth

3.97

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The Case Is Closed (Miss Silver, #2)

Patricia Wentworth

3.86

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Cargo of Eagles (Albert Campion Mystery, #19)

Margery Allingham

3.80

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The Mind Readers (Albert Campion Mystery, #18)

Margery Allingham

3.47

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