The Bad Quarto (Imogen Quy, #4)
By: Jill Paton Walsh
4.67
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
The campus of St. Agatha's College, Cambridge University, is steeped in history. One particular bui…
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1. 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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2. The Mind Readers (Albert Campion Mystery, #18)
By: Margery Allingham
3.47
Format: 260 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Mind over murder Two schoolboys have discovered a miraculous gadget that enables them to read oth… read more
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3. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.05
Format: 243 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ninety-year-old General Fentiman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly when he had died—and … read more
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"Exactly. He is the Most Unlikely Person, and that is why Sherlock Holmes would suspect him at once."-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
"I have a peculiar instinct about pubs. I can find one blindfold in a pea-souper with both hands tied behind me."-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
"Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
"I’m determined never to be a parent. Modern manners and the break-up of the fine old traditions have simply ruined the business. I shall devote my life and fortune to the endowment of research on the…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
4. Striding Folly (Lord Peter Wimsey #15)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers , Elizabeth George , Janet Hitchman
3.99
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Three of Lord Peter Wimsey's most baffling cases demonstrate his unique detction skills at their mo… read more
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5. 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
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6. The Beckoning Lady (Albert Campion #15)
By: Margery Allingham
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Albert Campion, family, Lugg and DCI Charles Luke are on hand in Suffolk when friends Minnie and To… read more
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7. 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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"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)
8. 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)
9. The Bad Quarto (Imogen Quy, #4)
By: Jill Paton Walsh
4.67
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
The campus of St. Agatha's College, Cambridge University, is steeped in history. One particular bui… read more
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10. More Work for the Undertaker (Albert Campion Mystery, #13)
By: Margery Allingham
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
Elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion investigates two deaths in the eccentric Palinode hou… read more
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11. 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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12. Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"Gaudy Nightstands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class b… read more
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13. Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this delightful collection of Wimsey exploits, Dorothy L. Sayers reveals a gruesome, grotesque b… read more
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"I has such a sinking in my inside I has to get up and eat biscuits."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)
"And upon his return, Gherkins, who had always considered his uncle as a very top-hatted sort of person, actually saw him take from his handkerchief-drawer an undeniable automatic pistol. It was at th…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)
14. 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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15. Grey Mask (Miss Silver, #1)
By: Patricia Wentworth
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
After Charles was jilted at the altar by Margaret, he discovers that she is mixed up in a vicious k… read more
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16. Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.24
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
Society’s eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally suc… read more
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"in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
"Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
"his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
"But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
17. 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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18. Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.11
Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition
The second Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, Have His Carcase. Harr… read more
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"I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
"Novelists and police-inspectors do not always see eye to eye as regards publicity."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
"A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
"In the mood of relaxation and confidence that follows on being parboiled, it was easy enough to pump Mrs Weldon. A little diplomacy was needed, so as not to betray the ulterior object of the inquiry,…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
19. Murder at Everham Hall (Marius Quin Mystery #1)
By: Benedict Brown
4.01
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
A mystery novelist with writer’s block, a lavish party to ring in the new year, and a film star wit… read more
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20. The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.78
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
During a painting retreat, a killer takes a creative approach to the ancient art of murder... Th… read more
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"One of these days you’ll go too far, and somebody will murder you.' 'I shouldn’t be in the least surprised,' said Lord Peter, pleasantly."-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)
"What's that, mister?" "That's the green for the gentleman's coat. No--don't pinch it, or you'll get it all over you. Yes, you can put the cap on. Yes, that's to keep it from drying up. Yes, put it ba…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)
21. The Canal Murders (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries, #10)
By: J.R. Ellis
4.28
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
Life moves at a slower pace on the canals. But death always comes when you least expect it. The las… read more
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