Light Thickens

6 best books like Light Thickens (Ngaio Marsh): Busman's Honeymoon, The Documents in the Case, Flowers for the Judge, A Presumption of Death, The Attenbury Emeralds, The Late Scholar

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..

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...

Flowers for the Judge

Author	Margery Allingham
ISBN	0099492822

Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar.

All eyes are on the other partners at the firm – cousins of the dead man with much to gain from his demise – and all rumours hint at a connection to the disappearance of another...

A Presumption of Death

Author

Jill Paton Walsh

While Lord Peter is abroad on a secret mission, Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, takes their children to safety in the country. But there's no escape from war: rumors of spies abound, glamorous RAF pilots and flirtatious land-girls scandalize the villagers, and the blackout makes rural lanes as...

The Attenbury Emeralds

Author	Jill Paton Walsh
ISBN	0312674546

In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a brown paper parcel containing a copy of the manuscript was discovered in her agent’s safe in London, and award-winning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commissioned to complete it. The result of the...

The Late Scholar

Author	Jill Paton Walsh
ISBN	1250032792

A new murder mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey - now a Duke - and his wife Harriet Vane, set in an Oxford college in the 1950s.

Peter Wimsey is pleased to discover that along with a Dukedom he has inherited the duties of 'visitor' at an Oxford college.When the fellows appeal to him to resolve a...