11 best-selling detective books like Night at the Vulcan (Roderick Alleyn, #16) by Ngaio Marsh

Cover of Night at the Vulcan (Roderick Alleyn, #16) by Ngaio Marsh

Night at the Vulcan (Roderick Alleyn, #16)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

A London actor was dying for a star billing... From the leading lady's liaison to the harassment of…

If you liked the detective plot in Night at the Vulcan (Roderick Alleyn, #16) by Ngaio Marsh , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16) by Margery Allingham

1. 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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  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12) by Margery Allingham

2. 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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  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey

3. 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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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Sweet Danger (Albert Campion Mystery #5) by Margery Allingham

4. 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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  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

5. 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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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1) by Margery Allingham

6. 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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  • 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)

Cover of The China Governess (Albert Campion Mystery #17) by Margery Allingham

7. 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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  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Night at the Vulcan (Roderick Alleyn, #16) by Ngaio Marsh

8. Night at the Vulcan (Roderick Alleyn, #16)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

A London actor was dying for a star billing... From the leading lady's liaison to the harassment of… read more

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

9. 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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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

10. 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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11. 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

12. 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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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

13. Police at the Funeral (Albert Campion Mystery #4)

By: Margery Allingham

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The imperious Caroline Faraday runs her house like a Victorian fiefdom, unconcerned with the fact t… read more

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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. The Tiger in the Smoke (Albert Campion Mystery #14)

By: Margery Allingham

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Meg's marriage to self-made millionaire Geoffrey Levett should have been happy, until she began rec… read more

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Cover of Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13) by Dorothy L. Sayers

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

18. 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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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac

19. These Names Make Clues

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.66

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Should detectives go to parties? Was it consistent with the dignity of the Yard? The inspector tos… read more

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  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Crook o' Lune by E.C.R. Lorac

20. Crook o' Lune

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.15

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding lands … read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25) by E.C.R. Lorac

21. Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.97

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Who fired the fatal shot that snuffed out the life of miserly old Folliner during a London blackout… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Mind the cat."

-E.C.R. Lorac, Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)

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3.96

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Margery Allingham

3.99

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Miss Pym Disposes

Josephine Tey

4.36

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Margery Allingham

3.57

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Christianna Brand

3.55

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Christianna Brand

3.69

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Martin Edwards , John Bude

4.72

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Anthony Berkeley

3.77

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