Death in the Tunnel
10 best books like Death in the Tunnel (Miles Burton): The Santa Klaus Murder, Murder Underground, The Sussex Downs Murder, Death on the Cherwell, The Hog's Back Mystery, Mystery in the Channel, Murder in the Museum, Verdict of Twelve, The Poisoned Chocolates Case, Fire in the Thatch
| Author | Mavis Doriel Hay |
| ISBN | 1464204950 |
When it comes to Christmas stories, one typically thinks of those that embody the spirit of the season, such as O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi” and Charles Dickens’s 'A Christmas Carol'.
The Yuletide-themed murder mystery is not usually the first thing that comes to mind. But in 1936,...
| Author | Mavis Doriel Hay |
| ISBN | 0712357254 |
If you were suddenly to be found murdered, would your friends have theories about who had done the deed?
Well, when the wealthy and unpleasant Miss Pongleton meets her end on the stairs of Belsize Park underground station in 'Murder Underground', her housemates — though not particularly...
| Author | John Bude |
| ISBN | 1464203717 |
'Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder, and, what was more, a murder without a corpse!'
Two brothers, John and William Rother, live together at Chalklands Farm in the beautiful Sussex Downs. Their peaceful rural life is shattered...
| Author | Mavis Doriel Hay |
| ISBN | 0712357262 |
For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils in the world: unladylike behavior among her students and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society of undergraduates meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon,...
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
‘As pretty a piece of work as Inspector French has done … On the level of Mr Crofts’ very best; which is saying something.’ – Daily Telegraph
Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog’s Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When...
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
| ISBN | 0712356517 |
Mystery in the Channel is a classic crime novel with a strikingly modern sub-text. The story begins with a shocking discovery. The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yacht lying motionless in the water, and on closer inspection, sees a body lying on the deck. When members...
| Author | John Rowland |
| ISBN | 1464205795 |
When Professor Julius Arnell breathes his last in the hushed atmosphere of the British Museum Reading Room, it looks like death from natural causes. Who, after all, would have cause to murder a retired academic whose life was devoted to Elizabethan literature? Inspector Shelley's suspicions are...
| Author | Raymond Postgate |
| ISBN | 0897331982 |
This was a delightful read. It's hard not to use the word "delightful" when describing this old fashioned British courtroom drama. Verdict of Twelve is a republication of a book originally released in 1940. It starts with the backstory of the twelve jurors selected for a murder trial, describes the...
| Author | Anthony Berkeley |
| ISBN | 0440168449 |
The Hook - After being quite delighted with my first Anthony Berkeley classic mystery, Trial and Error, I wondered if another would be as entertaining. Read on.
The Line - ”To make no bones about it, the Bendixes had apparently succeeded in achieving that eighth wonder of the modern world,...
The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory Fitzjohn. Vaughan sets to work farming the land, rearing geese and renovating the cottage. Hard work and rural...
In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten houses. One summer’s evening, the square’s rivalries and allegiances are disrupted by a sudden and unusual death – an arrow to the head, shot through an open window at no. 6.
Unfortunately...
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
| ISBN | 1842323776 |
We begin with a body. Andrew Crowther, a wealthy retired manufacturer, is found dead in his seat on the 12.30 flight from Croydon to Paris. Rather less orthodox is the ensuing flashback in which we live with the killer at every stage, from the first thoughts of murder to the strains and stresses of living...
