16 best-selling crime books like These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac

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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…

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1. Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

By: Christianna Brand

3.55

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

At a medieval pageant, Inspector Cockrill investigates a dramatic death Ever since she drove her… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"But now the streets were not like the streets she knew. They were so silent: and so empty. On the doorsteps, little groups of milk bottles huddled with their dirty white collars, waiting for the roun…"

-Christianna Brand, Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

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2. Green for Danger

By: Christianna Brand

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in a military hospital during the blitz, this novel is one of Brand's most intricately plotted … read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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3. Black Plumes

By: Margery Allingham

4.50

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

The slashing of a valuable painting at the renowned Ivory Gallery in London, followed by the murder… read more

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

4. The Problem of the Green Capsule (Dr. Gideon Fell, #10)

By: John Dickson Carr

4.75

Format: None pages,

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5. The Lady Vanishes

By: Ethel Lina White

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE WORLD-FAMOUS SUSPENSE NOVEL FROM WHICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK CREATED HIS MOVIE MASTERPIECE, REDISCOV… read more

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6. Trent's Last Case (Philip Trent, #1)

By: E.C. Bentley

4.37

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

On Wall Street, the mere mention of the name Sigsbee Manderson is enough to send a stock soaring--o… read more

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7. Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.77

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

When a murder is committed at a party given in honour of a famous writer-detective, the guests impe… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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8. Till Death Do Us Part (Dr. Gideon Fell, #15)

By: John Dickson Carr

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fiancée the mysterious newcomer to the village, Les… read more

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  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. Impact of Evidence

By: Carol Carnac

4.11

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Near St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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10. The Mysterious Mr. Badman

By: W.F. Harvey

3.57

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

The note read: “Will the gentleman who took by mistake a copy of Bunyan’s Life and Death of Mr. Ba… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Murder In The Basement (Roger Sheringham Cases, #8)

By: Anthony Berkeley

3.57

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY.Roger and Molly Dane have something of a surprise in their new house. Wh… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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12. Crossed Skis (Julian Rivers #8)

By: Carol Carnac

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An atmospheric holiday novel from one of the most consistently popular authors in the series, Carol… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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13. Death of a Bookseller

By: Bernard J. Farmer

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A rare gem of the mystery genre makes its first return to print since 1956 An honest policeman, Se… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
"Jack, I'm going to tell you a story. A runner took a book to a famous dealer and said: 'I've got something rare here.' 'Yes,' replied the dealer, 'but customers who want it are rarer.' Then my book i…"

-Bernard J. Farmer, Death of a Bookseller

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14. The Seat of the Scornful

By: John Dickson Carr

3.85

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

Judge Horace Ireton didn't care about the letter of the law. He was interested in administering abs… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Murder After Christmas

By: Rupert Latimer

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An ingenious lost Christmas mystery returns to print for the first time since 1944 'Did you say … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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16. 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

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's These Names Make Clues book and E.C.R. Lorac's These Names Make Clues

  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. The Division Bell Mystery

By: Ellen Wilkinson

3.50

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1932, this is the first Crime Classic novel written by an MP. And fittingly… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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18. Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles

By: Martin Edwards

3.91

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

‘If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a… read more

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  • classics
  • golden age mystery
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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19. The Widow of Bath

By: Margot Bennett

3.43

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking in the second-rate hotel he found him… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"...hatred destroyed with the speed of a bonfire in a wooden house. [Hugh Everton]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"The judge's manner would have made any man doubt the efficacy of lonely truth. Evidence would be demanded."

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"...I...advise you that it is the duty of every citizen to expose and so help to destroy evil. [Judge Gregory Bath]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

"Life didn't stop, and a mind given too much to thoughts of death would create nothing but its own tomb. [Hugh Everton]"

-Margot Bennett, The Widow of Bath

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20. 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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21. Crossed Skis

By: E. C. R. Lorac

4.28

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

The investigation of a dead body in London's  Bloomsbury takes Rivers to the  Austrian Alps  to hun… read more

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3.69

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3.56

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