Brat Farrar

7 best books like Brat Farrar (Josephine Tey): Busman's Honeymoon, Unnatural Death, The Documents in the Case, The Red House Mystery, The False Inspector Dew, Phineas Redux, Have His Carcase

Busman's Honeymoon

Author	Dorothy L. Sayers
ISBN	0061043516

Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride, mystery writer Harriet Vane, start their honeymoon with murder. The former owner of Talboys estate is dead in the cellar with a misspelled "notise" to the milkman, not a spot of blood on his smashed skull, and £600 in his pocket..

Unnatural Death

Author	Dorothy L. Sayers
ISBN	0061043583

The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs of foul play. Lord Peter Wimsey, however, senses that something is amiss and refuses to let the case rest--even without any clues or leads. Suddenly, he is faced with another murder: Agatha's maid. Can...

The Documents in the Case

Author	Dorothy L. Sayers
ISBN	0061043605

The grotesquely grinning corpse in the Devonshire shack was a man who died horribly -- with a dish of mushrooms at his side. His body contained enough death-dealing muscarine to kill 30 people. Why would an expert on fungi feast on a large quantity of this particularly poisonous species. A clue to the...

The Red House Mystery

Author	A.A. Milne
ISBN	0486401294

The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore, A. A. Milne was also the author of numerous dramas, essays, and novels for adults — among them, this droll and finely crafted whodunit.
In it, Milne takes readers to the Red House, a comfortable...

The False Inspector Dew

Author	Peter Lovesey
ISBN	1569472556

The year is 1921. A passionate affair between voracious romance reader Alma Webster and her dentist, Walter Baranov, has led to his wife’s murder. The lovers take flight aboard the Mauretania and the dentist takes the name of Inspector Dew, the detective who arrested the notorious wifekiller Dr....

Phineas Redux

Author	Anthony Trollope
ISBN	0641563582

The more I read Anthony Trollope's stories the more I see the masterful genius of this author. Last year I started his Barestshire series and loved it, so that it seemed natural to read his next series, Palliser. Are these series connected? Yes, because certain characters come pay their visit to this...

Have His Carcase

Author

Dorothy L. Sayers

Mystery writer Harriet Vane, recovering from an unhappy love affair and its aftermath, seeks solace on a barren beach -- deserted but for the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut.

From the moment she photographs the corpse, which soon disappears with the tide, she is puzzled by a mystery...