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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorElegy for Eddie
Jacqueline Winspear · 351 pages
The Vanishing of Dr Winter
L.B. Hathaway · 209 pages
Visiting the university town of Cambridge to unravel a mysterious tragedy in her own family, Private Detective Posie Parker is approached by an unwelcome figure from her past, asking for professional help. Tasked with finding out what happened to a brilliant doctor who disappeared almost five years earlier in the chaos of war, Posie is forced to confront her own painful memories of the Great War.
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie · 276 pages
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway ( Linnet Doyle) had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, rich and beautiful. A girl who had everything... until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Kerry Greenwood · 274 pages
The Spook Lights Affair
Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini · 251 pages
"In 1895 San Francisco young debutantes don't commit suicide at festive parties, particularly not under the eye of Sabina Carpenter. But Virginia St. Ives evidently did, leaping from a foggy parapet in a shimmer of ghostly light. The seemingly impossible disappearance of her body creates an even more serious problem for the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services. Sabina
The Riddle at Gipsy's Mile
Clara Benson · 284 pages
Lost in the mists of the Romney Marsh, Angela Marchmont stumbles upon the body of a woman whose face has been disfigured - presumably to prevent recognition. Who is she, and what was she doing out there in the middle of nowhere? The search for answers will take Angela from a grand stately home to London's most fashionable - and disreputable - nightclub, and into a murky world of illegal drinking,
The Laws of Murder
Charles Finch · 366 pages
"It's 1876, and Charles Lenox, once London's leading private investigator, has just given up his seat in Parliament after six years, primed to return to his first love, detection. With high hopes he and three colleagues start a new detective agency, the first of its kind. But as the months pass, and he is the only detective who cannot find work, Lenox begins to question whether he can still play t
Deaths of Jocasta
J.M. Redmann · 338 pages
New Orleans private detective Micky Knight has been hired to provide security for an exclusive party on the bucolic side of Lake Ponchartrain--the ideal job. But murder crashes this perfect party when the body of a young woman is found in the surrounding woods. Back in the city, Micky's former lover, Dr. Cordelia James discovers another body at her clinic.
Flashpoint
Linda Barnes · 288 pages
Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle investigates the murder of an elderly woman who wanted Carlotta to burglar-proof her apartment.
Murder in the Ball Park
Robert Goldsborough · 261 pages
"Archie Goodwin and Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to watch the Giants take on the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds. Panzer spies state senator Orson Milbank, a silver-haired scoundrel with enemies in every corner of upstate New York, sitting in the box seats. In the fourth inning, a monstrous line drive brings every fan in the grandstand to his feet -- every fan save
Another Thing to Fall
Laura Lippman · 344 pages
The California dream weavers have invaded Charm City with their cameras, their stars, and their controversy... .When private investigator Tess Monaghan literally runs into the crew of the fledgling TV series Mann of Steel while sculling, she expects sharp words and evil looks, not an assignment. But the company has been plagued by a series of disturbing incidents since its arrival on location in B
The Cheshire Cat's Eye
Marcia Muller · 207 pages
Have His Carcase
Dorothy L. Sayers · 448 pages
When Harriet Vane finds a dead body on the beach, she and Lord Peter Wimsey must solve a murder when all the evidence has washed out to sea Harriet Vane has gone on vacation to forget her recent murder trial and, more importantly, to forget the man who cleared her name & mdash;the dapper, handsome, and maddening Lord Peter Wimsey. She is alone on a beach when she spies a man lying on a rock, surf
The Skull Beneath the Skin
P.D. James · 416 pages
Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, she finds the stage is set for death. From the Inside Flap Fading star Clarissa Lisle plans a spectacular comeback, to be staged in a gothic castle. But poison-pen letters bearing dea
The Mother Hunt
Rex Stout · 208 pages
A beautiful socialite widow comes to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin to ask them to investigate why a baby has been abandoned on her doorstep, in a case that all too quickly leads to murder.
Blood Shot
Sara Paretsky · 376 pages
V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem -- after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. But when V.I. starts probing into the past, she not only finds out where all the bodies are buried -- she stumbles onto a ve
The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle · 190 pages
Even Sherlock Holmes, well-accustomed to the bizarre, finds the elements of this case unusual; the scene of the crime, a moated English country house; the wapon, a very American sawed-off shotgun; the bereaved, strangely dry-eyed; and the solution, backward in time and deep in a VALLEY OF FEAR...
Murder on Astor Place
Victoria Thompson · 278 pages
The Essence of Malice
Ashley Weaver · 312 pages
Traveling to Paris with Milo to investigate the death of a famous parfumier, Amory discovers that the victim was about to release a highly anticipated new fragrance and had been targeted by industry rivals and heirs vying for control of his empire.
Thrones, Dominations
Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh · 324 pages
Sayers's story opens in 1936 at a restaurant in Paris, where Harriet and Peter are enjoying a brief respite between the execution of the murderer he brought to justice in Busman's Honeymoon and the demands of the Wimsey family and social position back home. At the restaurant they are introduced to Laurence and Rosamund Harwell, a rich Englishman and his beautiful young wife, and the lives of the t