16 must-read mystery books like Out of the Past (Miss Silver, #23) by Patricia Wentworth

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Out of the Past (Miss Silver, #23)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.96

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

James and Carmona Hardwick are spending the summer playing host to numerous friends and relatives i…

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1. Out of the Past (Miss Silver, #23)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.96

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

James and Carmona Hardwick are spending the summer playing host to numerous friends and relatives i… read more

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  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16) by Margery Allingham

2. Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16)

By: Margery Allingham

3.96

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

In Hide My Eyes, private detective Albert Campion finds himself hunting down a serial killer in Lon… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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

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  • mystery thriller
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. 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
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) by Ngaio Marsh

5. 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
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  • 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)

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6. 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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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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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
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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8. 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

9. Death of a Ghost (Albert Campion Mystery #6)

By: Margery Allingham

4.03

Format: 246 pages,

The first killing took place at a crowded art show, in full view of the cream of London society. Fo… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
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  • mystery
  • crime
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10. 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
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
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  • 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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11. The China Governess (Albert Campion Mystery #17)

By: Margery Allingham

4.03

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Timothy Kinnit, rich, handsome, well-bred, learns on the eve of his elopement, that he was adopted.… read more

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  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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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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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion Mystery #8) by Margery Allingham

13. The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion Mystery #8)

By: Margery Allingham

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true quee… read more

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  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

14. Look to the Lady (Albert Campion Mystery #3)

By: Margery Allingham

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

A ring of international thieves target the Gyrth Chalice, a priceless goblet held by centuries of G… read more

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15. 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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Cover of Flowers for the Judge (Albert Campion Mystery, #7) by Margery Allingham

16. Flowers for the Judge (Albert Campion Mystery, #7)

By: Margery Allingham

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead i… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • golden age mystery
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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1) by Josephine Tey

17. 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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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

18. 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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19. 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
  • historical fiction
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  • 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)

20. 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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21. Thrones, Dominations (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane #1)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers , Jill Paton Walsh

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The wife of a wealthy man is found dead, and it is up to Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife, Harriet, t… read more

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16 Top fiction books like Out of the Past (Miss Silver, #23) by Patricia Wentworth

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3.91

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Christianna Brand

3.55

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