22 best-selling crime books like Debts of Dishonor (Imogen Quy, #3) by Jill Paton Walsh

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Debts of Dishonor (Imogen Quy, #3)

By: Jill Paton Walsh

3.61

Format: 523 pages,

When Sir Julius Farran dies suddenly, followed shortly after by his unpleasant son-in-law, St Agath…

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Cover of Black As He's Painted (Roderick Alleyn, #28) by Ngaio Marsh

1. Black As He's Painted (Roderick Alleyn, #28)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

A visiting dignitary in London asks for security—and gets extra help from a clever feline—in a nove… read more

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  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"A woman with a huge angry short-haired tabby in her arms came through from the surgery. The newly named Lucy’s fur rose. She made a noise that suggested she had come to the boil. The tabby suddenly l…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Black As He's Painted (Roderick Alleyn, #28)

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
  • british literature
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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5) by Dorothy L. Sayers

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)

Cover of Striding Folly (Lord Peter Wimsey #15) by Dorothy L. Sayers, Elizabeth  George, Janet Hitchman

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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  • british literature
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  • crime
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5. Death of a Ghost (Hamish Macbeth, #32)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M.C. Be… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2) by Ngaio Marsh

6. 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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  • british literature
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  • mystery
  • crime

7. 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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8. 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)

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9. 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)

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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  • crime
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11. Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.17

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable Lond… read more

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  • crime
"How do you do?"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"Bredon shuddered. “I think this is an awfully immoral job of ours. I do, really. Think how we spoil the digestions of the public."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"It's a curious thing, but people cannot resist anonymous letters. It's like free sample offers. They appeal to all one's lower instincts."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"The interview with the cat had been particularly full of appeal. The animal was, it seemed, an illustrious rat-catcher, with many famous deeds to her credit. Not only that, but she had been the first…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

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12. Debts of Dishonor (Imogen Quy, #3)

By: Jill Paton Walsh

3.61

Format: 523 pages,

When Sir Julius Farran dies suddenly, followed shortly after by his unpleasant son-in-law, St Agath… read more

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  • detective
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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

13. 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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14. 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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15. Clutch of Constables (Roderick Alleyn, #25)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Five Days Out of Time ... that was how the ad had described the Zodiaccruise on the "weirdly misted… read more

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16. A Grave Mistake (Roderick Alleyn, #30)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

A spa stay turns into a homicidal holiday... A bit snobbish and a trifle high-strung, Sybil Foster … read more

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17. 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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18. 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)

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19. 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)

20. 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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21. Murder by Candlelight

By: Faith Martin

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

The Cotswolds, 1924. At the Old Forge in the quiet village of Maybury-in-the-Marsh a cry of anguish… read more

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22. A Gentleman in Search of a Wife (The Lord Julian Mysteries #5)

By: Grace Burrowes

4.51

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Lord Julian Caldicott accepts a request to search for the missing wife of Mr. John Tait. Evelyn Tai… read more

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Cover of Murder at Everham Hall (Marius Quin Mystery #1) by Benedict Brown

23. 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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Cover of The Brewery Murders (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries #9) by J.R. Ellis

24. The Brewery Murders (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries #9)

By: J.R. Ellis

4.38

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

An award-winning beer worth killing for. Can DCI Oldroyd find the killer before last orders? Ste… read more

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  • mystery
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25. 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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Cover of Death of an Honest Man (Hamish Macbeth #33) by M.C. Beaton

26. Death of an Honest Man (Hamish Macbeth #33)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.82

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Nobody loves an honest man--or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer … read more

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Cover of Out of Darkness (DSI William Lorimer #21) by Alex Gray

27. Out of Darkness (DSI William Lorimer #21)

By: Alex Gray

4.38

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

***Your favourite Scottish detective returns in this brand new mystery in the Sunday Times bestsell… read more

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Cover of The Alington Inheritance (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 31) by Patricia Wentworth

28. The Alington Inheritance (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 31)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.90

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

A family fortune may be motive for “Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lo… read more

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Cover of Killing by Numbers (Bridget Hart #2) by M.S. Morris

29. Killing by Numbers (Bridget Hart #2)

By: M.S. Morris

4.33

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

When reclusive artist, Gabriel Quinn, is gunned down outside a gallery on Oxford High Street, Detec… read more

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  • british literature
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Cover of Mr Campion's Fox by Mike Ripley

30. Mr Campion's Fox

By: Mike Ripley

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

This brand-new novel featuring Margery Allingham’s Mr Campion recaptures the Golden Age of British … read more

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  • fiction
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Cover of A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33) by Donna Leon

31. 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

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24 must-read fiction books like Debts of Dishonor (Imogen Quy, #3) by Jill Paton Walsh

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Black As He's Painted (Roderick Alleyn, #28)

Ngaio Marsh

3.80

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Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

Margery Allingham

3.99

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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)

Dorothy L. Sayers

4.05

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Striding Folly (Lord Peter Wimsey #15)

Dorothy L. Sayers , Elizabeth George , Janet Hitchman

3.99

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13 best-selling fiction books like Murder by Candlelight by Faith Martin

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Death of a Temptress (DS Dave Slater, #1)

P.F. Ford

4.25

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Murder by Candlelight

Faith Martin

3.98

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An Assassination on the Agenda (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #11)

T.E. Kinsey

4.53

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The Library Murders (Flora Steele, #8)

Merryn Allingham

4.37

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