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10 best books like English Country House Murders (Thomas Godfrey): Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History, Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries, The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America, Dead And Gone, Anne Perry Presents Malice Domestic, 100 Malicious Little Mysteries, Scene of Crime, Poirot: Four Classic Cases

Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History
AuthorMark Girouard
ISBN0300058705
This best-selling book is a beautifully illustrated history of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. In it, renowned architectural historian Mark Girouard presents a rare and revealing glimpse of the English upper classes—their public and personal lives, their...
Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries
AuthorMartin Edwards
ISBN1464205736
The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. This new collection gathers together stories written over a span of about 65 years, during which British society, and life in country houses, was transformed out of all recognition. It includes fascinating...
The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories
AuthorOtto Penzler
ISBN0307455432
An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. 
 
Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir.  It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by...
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN0553212427
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.

Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America
AuthorDavid Willis McCullough
ISBN0394540654
For enthralling suspense and brilliant detection, there has never been a collection to match this one, with complete novels by Ross Macdonald and Ruth Rendell, a novella by Israel Zangwill, and sixteen short stories by the best mystery writers from England and America—Dorothy Sayers, G.K. Chesterton,...
Dead And Gone
AuthorDorothy Simpson
ISBN0751525251
1999, #15 Inspector Luke Thanet, rural Kent; cosy police procedural with nicely dark edges - four-and-one-half stars.

A very important lawyer’s sexy wife goes missing, and it seems to be connected with her daughter, who also went missing four years previously. With all the VIPs that might...
Anne Perry Presents Malice Domestic
AuthorAnne Perry
ISBN1416501673
Collects seventeen traditional mysteries by such contemporary writers as Marjorie Eccles, Jan Burke, Anthea Fraser, and Edward Marston.

Contents:
* A Dance with Life, Death... and Laughter by Anne Perry
* The Corbett Correspondence by Edward Marston & Peter Lovesey
...
100 Malicious Little Mysteries
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN1402711018
Charmingly insidious and satisfyingly devious, these 100 baffling little mysteries—selected by such prominent authors as Isaac Asimov—are just the thing to suit your most malevolent mood. These tales come from the pen of many well-known writers in the field, including Michael Gilbert, Edward...
Scene of Crime
AuthorJill McGown
ISBN0345443144
The eleventh gripping police procedural featuring Detective Chief Inspectors Lloyd and Hill, by the acclaimed author of Plots and Errors.The wife of a well-to-do doctor is found bound, gagged, and suffocated, after an apparent burglary. But too much conflicting evidence, and too many suspects...
Poirot: Four Classic Cases
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0007190654
GLI INDIMENTICABILI

Quattro casi divenuti un classico, che confermano la mia convinzione che Agatha Christie sia la mia scrittrice preferita: anche quando non riesco ad apprezzare pienamente un suo romanzo, sono comunque certa che lo ricorderò per sempre.

***

"Poirot...
Fever Moon
AuthorCarolyn Haines
ISBN0312351615
With the acclaimed novel Penumbra, Carolyn Haines branched out from the cozy Southern mysteries that made her name and moved into more ominous, more literary territory. She continues that exploration of the darker side of the South with Fever Moon.
Set in New Iberia, Louisiana, during World...
More Two-Minute Mysteries
AuthorDonald J. Sobol
ISBN0590447882
More of what we enjoyed / hated from the first book. One of the stories was about our Doctor Haledjian knowing what side of the skirt is on. Well good for him!

The good ones are a lot of fun but the bad ones are worse than groan-worthy. You're just left wondering where Doctor Haledjian lives that there...
Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories
AuthorDaphne du Maurier
ISBN0575021810
Quiet and nuanced, tending more toward suspense than horror, you will not find the fantastical twists and turns that tweak us in present day reads of this ilk. What you will find is Daphne du Maurier's beautiful writing. Atmospheric, moody, and thoughtful. The majority of the short stories in this collection...
Sicken and So Die
AuthorSimon Brett
ISBN0684824590
Things are going suspiciously well for Charles Paris. He's moved back in with his wife, Frances, and although he's not yet a permanent fixture in her bed, he has hopes. What's more, he's got a proper part in a proper play: Sir Toby Belch in a festival production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Charles...
Fallen Into the Pit
AuthorEllis Peters
ISBN0446403180
Rating: 3.25* of five

Not precisely as expected. The first murder, one which I'd been *panting* after happening since the instant I met the Kraut Eddie Haskell character who is, disappointingly, not boiled in oil after being flayed alive and rolled in finely ground salt, was but the first salvo...
Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics
AuthorDenise Hamilton
ISBN1936070022
From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, and from Central Avenue speakeasies to clapboard Venice Beach shacks to Depression-era hobos riding the rails, this volume brings you the masters of the genre penning tales of love, lust, and loss in the City of Angels.

Includes classic stories...
My Dear Charlotte
AuthorHazel Holt
ISBN1603810404
My Dear Charlotte is a British Regency mystery set in the early 1800s and infused throughout with the actual language of Jane Austen, one of the world’s great stylists and comic writers. Hazel Holt has published 19 Mrs. Malory mysteries in the tradition of Barbara Pym and has admirers around the world....
Murder Most Crafty
AuthorMaggie Bruce
ISBN0425204065
There's a pattern to these crimes...
Idle hands are the devil's workshop, which is why it's best to keep them busy with everything from knitting, candlemaking, and papermaking to wreathmaking, basketry, and gourd decorating. For some, skill, patience, and creative expression is also lent to...
The Sibyl in Her Grave
AuthorSarah Caudwell
ISBN0440234824
Julia Larwood's Aunt Regina needs help. She and two friends pooled their modest resources and invested in equities. Now the tax man demands his due, but they've already spent the money. How can they dig themselves out of the tax hole? Even more to the point: Can the sin of capital gains trigger corporeal...
Before the Fact
AuthorFrancis Iles
ISBN0330373153
This crime classic is the basis of the Hitchcock masterpiece "Suspicion" and in this case the movie was definitely better than the book.

Lina McLaidlaw a plain spinster approaching 30 recklessly marries the charming Johnny Asygarth even though she suspects he is just marrying her for her...
Detective Stories
AuthorPhilip Pullman
ISBN0753451468
Young mystery fans will be enthralled by this compelling volume of classic detective fiction. Not even Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot can solve the dilemma of which one of these fifteen exciting and intriguing short stories to read first. The list of suspects - including such classic and contemporary...
The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorJune Thomson
ISBN1883402360
As many fans of Sherlock Holmes will recall, "Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch box with my name, John H. Watson, M.D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid." Tantalizing information, this - mentioned in passing by the...
Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories
AuthorJames Moffett
ISBN0451628721
Since its original publication in 1966, this volume has attained classic status. Now its contents have been updated and its cultural framework enlarged by the orginal editors. Many of the 44 stories come from a new writing generation with a contemporary consciousness, and this brilliant blending...
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