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…
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1. An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey, #1)
By: Nicola Upson
3.52
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant and original fiction debut set in the exotic world of 1930s British theatre. March 1… read more
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2. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more
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"Fou!"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"Boil my brains!"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
3. Heads You Lose (Inspector Cockrill #1)
By: Christianna Brand
3.32
Format: 167 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Pigeonsford Estate is playing host to a group of close friends when one of their number, Grace Morl… read more
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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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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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"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)
6. Green for Danger
By: Christianna Brand
3.69
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in a military hospital during the blitz, this novel is one of Brand's most intricately plotted … read more
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7. 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
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8. 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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9. Kif
By: Josephine Tey , Elizabeth Mackintosh
3.82
Format: None pages,
Tey's first book; the sad story of a young man's downward path in the difficult post-WWI years in E… read more
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10. 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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11. Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.07
Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs o… read more
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"It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowad…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is run. Look at electricity, Look at water-power. Look at the tides. Look at the sun. Millions of power …"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
12. Fear in the Sunlight (Josephine Tey, #4)
By: Nicola Upson
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Summer, 1936. The writer, Josephine Tey, joins her friends in the holiday village of Portmeirion to… read more
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13. 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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- crime
14. Angel with Two Faces (Josephine Tey, #2)
By: Nicola Upson
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Inspector Archie Penrose invites Josephine Tey down to his home in Cornwall so she can recover from… read more
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15. The Death of Lucy Kyte (Josephine Tey, #5)
By: Nicola Upson
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
In this atmospheric, intriguing historical mystery brimming with psychological tension, an unexpect… read more
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16. Two for Sorrow (Josephine Tey, #3)
By: Nicola Upson
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
"A new and assured talent....Nicola Upson is to be congratulated." --P.D. James Author Nicola Upson… read more
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17. The Expensive Halo: A Fable Without Moral
By: Josephine Tey
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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18. The Strong Room: A Golden Age Mystery
By: R.A.J. Walling
4.05
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
Golden Age of Crime writer R.A.J. Walling’s first-ever crime novel, republished here for the first … read more
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19. Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery
By: Anthony Berkeley
3.90
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Ingenious’ Times Literary SupplementThe second of ten ‘Roger Sheringham’ detective novelsThis 2023… read more
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20. 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
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21. 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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