9 Top detective books like The Secret of High Eldersham (Desmond Merrion, #1) by Miles Burton

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The Secret of High Eldersham (Desmond Merrion, #1)

By: Miles Burton

4.06

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

If you liked the detective plot in The Secret of High Eldersham (Desmond Merrion, #1) by Miles Burton , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Roger Sheringham Cases, #5) by Anthony Berkeley

1. The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Roger Sheringham Cases, #5)

By: Anthony Berkeley

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Reissue of one of the great puzzle mystery classics of England's Golden Age of crime fiction; plot … read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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2. The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2)

By: Carter Dickson

3.66

Format: 176 pages,

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  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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3. The Secret of High Eldersham (Desmond Merrion, #1)

By: Miles Burton

4.06

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

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

4. Death of a Busybody

By: George Bellairs

4.12

Format: 176 pages,

The eponymous nosy parker in Death of a Busybodyis Miss Ethel Tither. She has made herself deeply u… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

5. Mystery in the Channel

By: Freeman Wills Crofts

4.12

Format: 176 pages,

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

6. The Cheltenham Square Murder

By: John Bude

3.19

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten … read more

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7. The Cornish Coast Murder

By: John Bude

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature --himself in … read more

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8. Murder Underground

By: Stephen Booth , Mavis Doriel Hay

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

If you were suddenly to be found murdered, would your friends have theories about who had done the … read more

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9. Death on the Cherwell

By: Mavis Doriel Hay

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils in the world: unladyli… read more

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10. Death Makes a Prophet

By: John Bude

2.56

Format: 201 pages,

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11. 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

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
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12. Death of Mr. Dodsley (Francis McNab, #5)

By: John Ferguson

3.45

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

A bookshop is a first-rate place for unobtrusive observation,’ he continued. ‘One can remain in it … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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13. Murder In The Basement (Roger Sheringham Cases, #8)

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.57

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY.Roger and Molly Dane have something of a surprise in their new house. Wh… read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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14. Death of an Author

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.99

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would… read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac

15. 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

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  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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16. The Widow of Bath

By: Margot Bennett

3.43

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking in the second-rate hotel he found him… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"...hatred destroyed with the speed of a bonfire in a wooden house. [Hugh Everton]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"The judge's manner would have made any man doubt the efficacy of lonely truth. Evidence would be demanded."

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"...I...advise you that it is the duty of every citizen to expose and so help to destroy evil. [Judge Gregory Bath]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"Life didn't stop, and a mind given too much to thoughts of death would create nothing but its own tomb. [Hugh Everton]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

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17. Surfeit of Suspects

By: George Bellairs

3.79

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"At 8 o'clock in the evening on the 8th of… read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Somebody at the Door by Raymond W. Postgate

18. Somebody at the Door

By: Raymond W. Postgate

3.35

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

One bleak Friday evening in January, 1942, Councillor Henry Grayling boards an overcrowded train wi… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Bats in the Belfry (Robert MacDonald #13) by E.C.R. Lorac

19. Bats in the Belfry (Robert MacDonald #13)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.74

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Bruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels—but his early promise did … read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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20. Weekend at Thrackley

By: Alan Melville

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by the mysterious Edwin Carson, a collector of precious… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"No other person in the world laughed quite like Freddie Usher. Mercifully so....There were no half-hearted methods adopted when Freddie Usher became amused. No discreetness. No lack of abandon. No th…"

-Alan Melville, Weekend at Thrackley

"Edwin Carson is the greatest living authority on precious stones in the world. The only reason why he isn't acclaimed as such in public and in the Press is that his methods of collecting his jewels--…"

-Alan Melville, Weekend at Thrackley

Cover of The Body in the Dumb River (Thomas Littlejohn #35) by George Bellairs

21. The Body in the Dumb River (Thomas Littlejohn #35)

By: George Bellairs

3.85

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

With an introduction by Martin Edwards ‘A decent, hardworking chap, with not an enemy anywhere. Pe… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

16 Top fiction books like The Secret of High Eldersham (Desmond Merrion, #1) by Miles Burton

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Anthony Berkeley

4.00

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The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2)

Carter Dickson

3.66

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The Secret of High Eldersham (Desmond Merrion, #1)

Miles Burton

4.06

Death of a Busybody

George Bellairs

4.12

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Christianna Brand

3.55

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Christianna Brand

3.69

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The Sussex Downs Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #2)

Martin Edwards , John Bude

4.72

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Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)

Anthony Berkeley

3.77

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