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10 best books like Fallen Into the Pit (Ellis Peters): Reservations for Murder, The Tale of Hill Top Farm, Emily and the Dark Angel, English Country House Murders, The Bohemian Girl, Best Detective Stories of Agatha Christie, Hades, Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil: And Other New Tales Featuring the World's Greatest Detective, The Marx Sisters, The Master of Rain: A Suspense Thriller

Reservations for Murder
AuthorTim Myers
ISBN0425185257
A clinching clue is not a dime a dozen in pulp literature. By that I mean a clue that is not hidden but is camouflaged somewhere in the book. This type of clue is not restricted to mysteries.

In the 1st Harry Potter book, the mystery of who Nicholas Flamel is and why Hermione cannot find a trace of him...
The Tale of Hill Top Farm
AuthorSusan Wittig Albert
ISBN0425196348
The author of Peter Rabbit and other creature tales, Beatrix Potter is still, after a century, beloved by children and adults the world over. In this first Cottage Tale, Albert introduces Beatrix, an animal lover who has just bought a farm in England's beautiful Lake District. As Beatrix tries to win...
Emily and the Dark Angel
AuthorJo Beverley
ISBN0380715554
New York Times bestselling author Jo Beverley "brings the Regency Period to life." (Joan Hammond) Emily Grantwich lives quietly with her crippled father and eccentric aunt, managing the family's land, until the fateful day she walks down the main street of Melton Mowbray and is showered with Poudre...
English Country House Murders
AuthorThomas Godfrey
ISBN0892963557
Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities.

Contents:
The adventure of the Abbey...
The Bohemian Girl
AuthorKenneth M. Cameron
ISBN0312538979
When Denton, the famous American author and expatriate in turn-of-the-century London, receives a letter from a young woman saying she’s in danger and needs his help, he doubts there’s anything he can do. The letter is months old, and was only forwarded to him when the buyer of a painting found it...
Best Detective Stories of Agatha Christie
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0582275237
Staigājot pa grāmatnīcu pamanīju grāmatu „Best detective stories of Agatha Christie”. Tā kā es nebiju vēl nekad lasījusi detektīvus, lai gan biju dzirdējusi par dažām Agatas Kristi filmām. Nolēmu pamēģināt izlasīt šo grāmatu. Sākumdaļā ir aprakstīts par pašu...
Hades
AuthorRussell Andrews
ISBN0892960213
Police Chief Justin Westwood is content to escape his big-city past in sleepy East End Harbor, but the brutal murder of a Wall Street shark is about to change all that--not least because Westwood was in bed with the victim's wife at the time.

National bestselling author Russell Andrews returns...
Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil: And Other New Tales Featuring the World's Greatest Detective
AuthorDonald Serrell Thomas
ISBN1605980439
In these five tales, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers: he co-operates with a young Winston Churchill in the famed Siege of Sydney Street; helps defeat a plan for a German invasion outlined in the Zimmerman Telegram; establishes a link between two missing light-house keepers and the...
The Marx Sisters
AuthorBarry Maitland
ISBN0140291768
Detective Kathy Kolla's first case is one for the books. Meredith Winterbottom, a resident of Jerusalem Lane--a quaint section of London inhabited by Eastern European immigrants--and a great-granddaughter of Karl Marx, is found dead. Was she the victim of greedy real-estate developers, or was...
The Master of Rain: A Suspense Thriller
AuthorTom Bradby
ISBN0375713336
Shanghai, 1926: a sultry city lousy with opium, warlords, and corruption at the highest levels. Into this steamy morass walks Richard Field, an idealistic Brit haunted by his past and recently appointed to the international police. He's not there long before called to the flat of a Russian prostitute,...
Dying for Dinner
AuthorMiranda Bliss
ISBN0425226107
A fun read. When Annie quits her job as a bank teller to concentrate on her work at Bellywashers, she thinks she'll finally have plenty of time to do just the one job... until she ends up working at Tres Bonne Cuisine as well, and investigating both a murder and a missing person.

I haven't read the...
Dead Past
AuthorBeverly Connor
ISBN0451412346
As a child, Juliet Price witnessed the bloody slaying of an entire family. Then the killer chased her down, brutalized her, and left her for dead. The police were never able to find the man responsible. For years, Juliet's traumatized mind hid the events from her. Then she sees a television show featuring...
Figures in a Landscape: People and Places
AuthorPaul Theroux
ISBN0544870301
A delectable collection of Theroux’s recent writing on great places, people, and prose

In the spirit of his much-loved Sunrise with Seamonsters and Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux’s latest collection of essays leads the reader through a dazzling array of sights, characters, and experiences,...
The Haunted Season
AuthorG.M. Malliet
ISBN1250021448
Max Tudor must contend with his new role as a father as well as a murder all too close to home in Nether Monkslip in the next installment in G. M. Malliet's wildly popular series.

Something sinister is stirring at Totleigh Hall, the showcase of the English village of Nether Monkslip. Usually,...
Signal Red
AuthorRobert Ryan
Bestselling author Robert Ryan tells the story of the most ambitious robbery of the twentieth century, when seventeen men risked it all in their quest for adventure, success and fame.

1963: an unarmed gang led by the dapper Bruce Reynolds holds up a Royal Mail train at a remote bridge in Buckinghamshire,...
Under Cold Stone
AuthorVicki Delany
ISBN1464202338
Passionate environmentalist, old-time hippy Lucky Smith and Paul Keller, Chief Constable of Trafalgar, British Columbia, are an unlikely couple. Their vacation to the Rocky Mountains is a chance to explore their fledgling late-in-life relationship. They plan to indulge themselves at the famous...
Biggie and the Devil Diet
AuthorNancy Bell
ISBN0312301847
Biggie is back! Nancy Bell returns with another delicious installment in her series of rural Texas mysteries featuring local doyen Biggie Weatherford as amateur detective. Once again, young J.R. faithfully narrates the humorous exploits of Biggie, his grandmother. Filled with plenty of quirky...
Superfluous Women
AuthorCarola Dunn
ISBN1250047048
In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"—brought...
The Bone Fire
AuthorChristine Barber
ISBN0312593503
"Christine Barber is new to the Southwest in the sense that The Replacement Child is her first novel. But she has a great feel for the territory and for the family connections that enforce its strong community bonds."
—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Every year, the people of Santa Fe gather...
Night Frost
AuthorR.D. Wingfield
ISBN0552145580
A serial killer is terrorizing the senior citizens of Denton, and the local police are succumbing to a flu epidemic. Tired and demoralized, the force has to contend with a seemingly perfect young couple suffering arson attacks and death threats, a suspicious suicide, burglaries, pornographic videos,...
Three By Tey: Miss Pym Disposes / The Franchise Affair / Brat Farrar
AuthorJosephine Tey
ISBN0026171805
More than Nostalgia

One of the great pleasures of reading classic English mysteries is the indulgence of a gentle nostalgia for a bygone world. In defiance, perhaps, of the changes presaged by the First War and brought about by the Second, they represent an England that is still predominantly...
Stone Quarry
AuthorS.J. Rozan
ISBN0312977034
Bill Smith's country cabin in upstate New York is far from the city's savage streets--a retreat where a weary P.I. can play Mozart on his upright piano and let nature heal him. But when Eve Colgate, a local farmer and painter, asks him to find stolen items--six paintings which could reveal Eve's highly...
Evan and Elle
AuthorRhys Bowen
ISBN0425178889
Madame Yvette's arrival is causing a lot of excitement in Llanfair. Some are enraged at the fact that her new French restaurant sits on the site of an abandoned chapel. Others are thrilled about her sophisticated culinary skills. And Llanfair's men seem intrigued by her exotic beauty-- which isn't...
The Green Branch
AuthorEdith Pargeter
ISBN0708830579
(2nd book of The Heaven Tree trilogy)

Young Harry Talvace, the son of Ralf Isambard's master-builder who raised the great church of Parfois and was put to death by his jealous patron, has grown up at the court of Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales. Deep in his heart he nurses a desire for vengence,...
Ice Hunter
AuthorJoseph Heywood
ISBN1592286542
Meet Grady Service: a former Marine, renowned tracker, Conservation Officer, and the
last person any errant hunter wants to cross. In Ice Hunter, the first of a series of
mysteries set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Service defends his turf with the tenacity of a
bear and the wisdom...
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