19 best-selling mystery books like In the Teeth of the Evidence (Lord Peter Wimsey, #14) by Dorothy L. Sayers

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In the Teeth of the Evidence (Lord Peter Wimsey, #14)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.01

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

An irresistible collection of stories starring Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg, from the master …

If you liked the mystery plot in In the Teeth of the Evidence (Lord Peter Wimsey, #14) by Dorothy L. Sayers , here is a list of 19 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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2. Fallen Into the Pit (Felse Investigations, #1)

By: Ellis Peters

3.79

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

When an obnoxious former Nazi land-worker is murdered in the small English village of Comerford, Ch… read more

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

3. 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
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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4. 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
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5. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • 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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6. 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
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7. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 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 Final Curtain (Roderick Alleyn, #14) by Ngaio Marsh

8. 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 Death and the Joyful Woman (Felse, #2) by Ellis Peters

9. Death and the Joyful Woman (Felse, #2)

By: Ellis Peters

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the woman he loves is accused of murder, Dominic Felse sets out to find the true culprit Is a … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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10. 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
Cover of Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8) by Ngaio Marsh

11. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • 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 Written In Blood (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #4) by Caroline Graham

12. Written In Blood (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #4)

By: Caroline Graham

4.10

Format: 40 pages,

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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13. 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

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4) book and Dorothy L. Sayers's In the Teeth of the Evidence (Lord Peter Wimsey, #14)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • 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)

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14. The Late Scholar (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #4)

By: Jill Paton Walsh

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A new murder mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey - now a Duke - and his wife Harriet Vane, set in a… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

15. 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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16. 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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17. Artists in Crime (Roderick Alleyn, #6)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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18. 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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19. A Presumption of Death (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #2)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers , Jill Paton Walsh

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

While Lord Peter is abroad on a secret mission, Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, takes their ch… read more

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

20. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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24. 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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25. The Confession of Brother Haluin (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #15)

By: Ellis Peters

4.33

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Brother Cadfael is witness to a shocking near-death confession and accompanies a fellow Benedictine… read more

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26. 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)

27. Death at the Bar (Roderick Alleyn, #9)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A cosy game of darts in a cosy English pub is going well until one of the players dies on the spot.… read more

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28. Death in a White Tie (Roderick Alleyn, #7)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's… read more

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29. 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
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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30. In the Teeth of the Evidence (Lord Peter Wimsey, #14)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.01

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

An irresistible collection of stories starring Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg, from the master … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • classics
  • british literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • 20th century
  • crime
Cover of The Will and the Deed by Ellis Peters

31. The Will and the Deed

By: Ellis Peters

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking revelation in a diva’s will leads to murder in this chilling whodunit from the Edgar Awa… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

19 Top fiction books like In the Teeth of the Evidence (Lord Peter Wimsey, #14) by Dorothy L. Sayers

Transform Your Habits

Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)

Ngaio Marsh

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Fallen Into the Pit (Felse Investigations, #1)

Ellis Peters

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16)

Margery Allingham

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)

Ngaio Marsh

3.80

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14 Top fiction books like Sweet Danger (Albert Campion Mystery #5) by Margery Allingham

Transform Your Habits

Spinsters in Jeopardy (Roderick Alleyn, #17)

Ngaio Marsh

3.71

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

The Wyndham Case (Imogen Quy, #1)

Jill Paton Walsh

4.75

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