15 must-read crime books like The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion Mystery #8) by Margery Allingham

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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…

If you liked the crime plot in The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion Mystery #8) by Margery Allingham , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10) by Ngaio Marsh

1. Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)

By: Ngaio Marsh

4.00

Format: 303 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Murder becomes a family affair... The Lampreys were a charming, eccentric happy-go-lucky family, t… read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10) book and Margery Allingham's The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion Mystery #8)

  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Striding Folly (Lord Peter Wimsey #15) by Dorothy L. Sayers, Elizabeth  George, Janet Hitchman

2. 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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  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2) by Ngaio Marsh

3. 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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  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) by Ngaio Marsh

4. 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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  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"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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5. 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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  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1) by Ngaio Marsh

6. 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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  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Final Curtain (Roderick Alleyn, #14) by Ngaio Marsh

7. Final Curtain (Roderick Alleyn, #14)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.81

Format: 4 pages,

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  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8) by Ngaio Marsh

8. Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

It was planned as an act of a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. … read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"It's like one of those affairs in books," said Bailey disgustedly."Someone trying to think up a new way to do a murder. Silly, I call it." "What do you say, Roper?" said Alleyn. "To my way of thinkin…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

Cover of Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4) by Ngaio Marsh

9. Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of th… read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Look here,' said Nigel suddenly, 'let's pretend it's a detective novel. Where would we be by this time? About halfway through, I should think. Well, who's your pick' 'I am invariably gulled by detect…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)

Cover of A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard

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

11. 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

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion Mystery #8) book and Margery Allingham's The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion Mystery #8)

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

12. Last Ditch (Roderick Alleyn, #29)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.70

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Horseplay turns deadly... Young Ricky Alleyn has come to the picturesque fishing village of Deep Co… read more

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13. Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.40

Format: 96 pages,

Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fiance died in the manner prescr… read more

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Cover of The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1) by Josephine Tey

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

15. Miss Silver Comes to Stay (Miss Silver, #16)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.11

Format: 192 pages,

When James Lessiter returns to Lenton after many years to claim his family estate, his reappearance… read more

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16. Dead Water (Roderick Alleyn, #23)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.53

Format: None pages,

read more

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17. Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

The party's over when murder makes an entrance...With the notion of bringing together the most bitt… read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"With corpses stiffening on the premises, sir, all things be possible to a man with a desperate powerful idea egging him on."

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"They were fortified with all the resilience that youth presents to an emotional shock. In the midst of murder and attempted suicide, they had managed, not only to behave with address and good sense, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"For some reason that he had never been able to understand, Mandrake was a man in whom his fellow-creatures confided. He was by no means obviously sympathetic and he seldom asked for confidences but, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"Beneath it hung a faded photograph in an Oxford frame. It presented a Victorian gentleman wearing an ineffable air of hauteur and a costume which suggested that he had begun to dress up as Mr. Sherlo…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

18. Scales of Justice (Roderick Alleyn, #18)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Format: 244 pages,

The quiet village of Swevenings seemed an English pastoral paradise, until the savagely beaten body… read more

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Cover of Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery) by Marcia Muller

19. Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)

By: Marcia Muller

3.57

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

In this twisting mystery in a New York Times bestselling series, pranks escalate into a deadly sche… read more

Similar categories in Marcia Muller's Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery) book and Margery Allingham's The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion Mystery #8)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Death of an Author by E.C.R. Lorac

20. 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 A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33) by Donna Leon

21. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)

By: Donna Leon

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more

Similar categories in Donna Leon's A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33) book and Margery Allingham's The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion Mystery #8)

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction

16 Top fiction books like The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion Mystery #8) by Margery Allingham

Transform Your Habits

Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)

Ngaio Marsh

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Striding Folly (Lord Peter Wimsey #15)

Dorothy L. Sayers , Elizabeth George , Janet Hitchman

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2)

Ngaio Marsh

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

Ngaio Marsh

3.71

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17 must-read fiction books like Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2) by Ngaio Marsh

Transform Your Habits

Lonesome Road (Miss Silver, #3)

Patricia Wentworth

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Case Is Closed (Miss Silver, #2)

Patricia Wentworth

3.86

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Cargo of Eagles (Albert Campion Mystery, #19)

Margery Allingham

3.80

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The Mind Readers (Albert Campion Mystery, #18)

Margery Allingham

3.47

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