11 best-selling golden age mystery books like Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11) by Ngaio Marsh

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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…

"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)

"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)

"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, but all to fall in love with each other."

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

If you liked the golden age mystery plot in Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11) by Ngaio Marsh , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Miss Silver Deals With Death (Miss Silver, #6) by Patricia Wentworth

1. Miss Silver Deals With Death (Miss Silver, #6)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.04

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

When her fiancé, Giles Armitage, is lost at sea in the middle of the Second World War, Meade Underw… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Cargo of Eagles (Albert Campion Mystery, #19) by Margery Allingham

2. Cargo of Eagles (Albert Campion Mystery, #19)

By: Margery Allingham

3.80

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

In this, Ms. Allingham's last novel, the action revolves around Saltey, for centuries a hidey-hole … read more

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  • detective
  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of A Day for Dying (Inspector Thanet, #13) by Dorothy Simpson

3. A Day for Dying (Inspector Thanet, #13)

By: Dorothy Simpson

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A title in a series featuring Inspector Thanet. When Max Jeopard, a charismatic writer is found dea… read more

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

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

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

6. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
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  • crime
Cover of Sweet Danger (Albert Campion Mystery #5) by Margery Allingham

8. 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
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9. 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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  • detective
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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

10. 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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  • british literature
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  • crime
Cover of The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1) by Margery Allingham

11. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
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  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • 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

12. 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

13. The Clock Strikes Twelve (Miss Silver, #7)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.73

Format: 251 pages,

The Paradine family has gathered to celebrate New Year's Eve. Alas, when the clock strikes twelve o… read more

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14. She Came Back (Miss Silver, #9)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.73

Format: 251 pages,

Also published as The Traveller Returns. Assumed dead, Lady Anne Jocelyn meets varying degrees of w… read more

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15. 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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16. Traitor's Purse (Albert Campion Mystery #11)

By: Margery Allingham

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

Celebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital accused of attacking a police office… read more

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17. 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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18. Unexpected Night (Henry Gamadge, #1)

By: Elizabeth Daly

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

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19. The Attenbury Emeralds (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #3)

By: Jill Paton Walsh

5.00

Format: None pages,

In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later,… read more

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20. Pilgrim's Rest (Miss Silver, #10)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.40

Format: None pages,

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Cover of Flowers for the Judge (Albert Campion Mystery, #7) by Margery Allingham

21. 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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  • detective
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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

22. 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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23. Nil (Nil, #1)

By: Lynne Matson

4.32

Format: 224 pages, ebook

On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days--to escape,… read more

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24. 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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25. 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 The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard

26. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • 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)

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27. 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
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  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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)

28. 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 These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac

29. 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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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Case in the Clinic by E.C.R. Lorac

30. 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
Cover of The Paddington Mystery (Dr. Priestly #1) by John Rhode

31. The Paddington Mystery (Dr. Priestly #1)

By: John Rhode

3.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A special release of the very first crime novel by John Rhode, introducing Dr Priestley, the genius… read more

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4.06

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