14 Top mystery books like The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard

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The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old scho…

"It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

"It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

"Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

"Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

If you liked the mystery plot in The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey, #1)

By: Nicola Upson

3.52

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant and original fiction debut set in the exotic world of 1930s British theatre. March 1… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of Spinsters in Jeopardy (Roderick Alleyn, #17) by Ngaio Marsh

2. Spinsters in Jeopardy (Roderick Alleyn, #17)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

SPINSTERS IN JEOPARDY read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
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Cover of Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10) by Ngaio Marsh

3. 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

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

4. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12) by Ngaio Marsh

5. Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Format: None pages,

A spa-goer resorts to murder. Even down in New Zealand, war-fueled spy fever is running wild. Near … 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

6. 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
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  • fiction
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"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)

Cover of Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13) by Ngaio Marsh

7. 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 Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5) by Ngaio Marsh

8. Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Death served well-chilled The leading lady of a theater company touring New Zealand was stunning… read more

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  • detective
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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"What do you think, Mr Alleyn? If there's another war will the young chaps come at it, same as we did, thinking it's great? And get the same jolt? What do you reckon?" "I'm afraid to speculate," said …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

"My poor fat Alfie! He was not a romantic husband, but he was so kind and understanding. He never minded whether I was amusing or dull. He thought it impossible that I could be dull. I didn't have to …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)

Cover of Naked Once More (Jacqueline Kirby, #4) by Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Mertz

9. Naked Once More (Jacqueline Kirby, #4)

By: Elizabeth Peters , Barbara Mertz

3.91

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

She may be a bestselling author, but ex-librarian Jacqueline Kirby's views on the publishing biz ar… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of A Wreath for Rivera (Roderick Alleyn, #15) by Ngaio Marsh

10. A Wreath for Rivera (Roderick Alleyn, #15)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Red-hot jazz meets cold-blooded murder. When Lord Pastern Bagott takes up with the hot music of Bre… read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

11. 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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12. 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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13. False Scent (Roderick Alleyn, #21)

By: Ngaio Marsh

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In a poisonous cloud of spray, the curtain falls on a drama queen. Little did beloved British actre… read more

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14. 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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15. Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Douglas V. Steere

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, the Danish writer Sore… read more

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16. The Expensive Halo: A Fable Without Moral

By: Josephine Tey

3.76

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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Cover of The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard

17. The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old scho… read more

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  • detective
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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
"It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

"Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

Cover of Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11) by Ngaio Marsh

18. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • 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)

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19. 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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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
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20. Twice in a Blue Moon (Henry Tibbbet)

By: Patricia Moyes

3.92

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Mr. and Mrs. Tibbetts pop into a pub for lunch but get served a murder case in this novel with “all… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Impact of Evidence by E. C. R. Lorac

21. Impact of Evidence

By: E. C. R. Lorac

4.32

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

AMONG THE hills of the Welsh borders a little group of farmsteads is isolated by snow and ice, then… read more

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14 must-read fiction books like The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard

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An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey, #1)

Nicola Upson

3.52

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Spinsters in Jeopardy (Roderick Alleyn, #17)

Ngaio Marsh

3.71

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Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)

Ngaio Marsh

4.00

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Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2)

Ngaio Marsh

3.82

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Margery Allingham

3.96

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Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

Margery Allingham

3.99

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Striding Folly (Lord Peter Wimsey #15)

Dorothy L. Sayers , Elizabeth George , Janet Hitchman

3.99

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Miss Pym Disposes

Josephine Tey

4.36

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