Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries
10 best books like Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries (Martin Edwards): The Sussex Downs Murder, Thirteen Guests, Death on the Cherwell, Murder of a Lady, The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack, Death in the Tunnel, English Country House Murders, Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America, Anne Perry Presents Malice Domestic, The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction (Mammoth Books)
| 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 | J. Jefferson Farjeon |
| ISBN | 1464204896 |
On a fine autumn weekend, Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house, Bragley Court. Among the guests are an actress, a journalist, an artist, and a mystery novelist. The unlucky thirteenth is John Foss, injured at the local train station and brought to the house to recuperate – but John...
| 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 | Anthony Wynne |
| ISBN | 0712356231 |
Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death in her bedroom - but the room is locked from within and the windows are barred. The only tiny clue to the culprit...
| Author | George Bellairs |
| ISBN | 0712356525 |
Two classic cases featuring Detective-Inspector Littlejohn.
In the winter of 1940, the Home Guard unearths a skeleton on the moor above the busy town of Hatterworth. Twenty-three years earlier, the body of a young textile worker was found in the same spot, and the prime suspect was never found...
| Author | Miles Burton |
| ISBN | 1464205817 |
On a dark November evening, Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street, in a locked compartment. The train slows and stops inside a tunnel; and by the time it emerges again minutes later, Sir Wilfred has been shot dead, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Suicide...
| Author | Thomas Godfrey |
| ISBN | 0892963557 |
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...
| Author | David Willis McCullough |
| ISBN | 0394540654 |
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,...
| Author | Anne Perry |
| ISBN | 1416501673 |
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
...
The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction (Mammoth Books)
| Author | Mike Ashley |
| ISBN | 1849014353 |
Our dark past brought to life by leading contemporary crime writers. A new generation of crime writers has broadened the genre of crime fiction, creating more human stories of historical realism, with a stronger emphasis on character and the psychology of crime. This superb anthology of 12 novellas...
| Author | Edmund Crispin |
| ISBN | 0140088156 |
Dandelions and hearing aids, a bloodstained cat, a Leonardo drawing, a corpse with an alibi, a truly poisonous letter … just some of the unusual clues that Oxford don/detective Gervase Fen and his friend Inspector Humbleby are confronted with in this sparkling collection of short mystery stories...
| 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...
(Folly was originally published August 13, 2013 as Cold in eBook format.
Following the breakdown of her marriage, Alex Duggins has returned to her picturesque home town in the Cotswolds in order to start afresh. But you can't outrun the past, as Alex discovers, when she stumbles across a frosted...
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 0543896749 |
Some of the stories or some moments in the stories are really great, either really quirky or really sweet or really curious. At the same time, I do not feel these moments are enough of a reward in what is mostly an OK book. I had some issues getting through the entire manuscript, although I think I could attribute...
The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0897331664 |
Note: Republished in slightly different form in 1993, under the title Jamie and Other Stories: The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley. That version contains a new introduction by Bradley and one additional story.
1 • Centaurus Changeling • (1954)
50 • The Climbing Wave • (1955)
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Cozy Christmas Crimes - A Cozy Christmas Box Set
Cozy Christmas Crimes
A Cozy Christmas Box Set
Short Stories By:
Jenna St. James
Mona Marple
Tonya Kappes
Bonus Book by Summer Prescott
Christmas Parties are Murder
By Jenna St. James
Temp worker Amanda Adkins had no idea...
| Author | Katherine Hall Page |
| ISBN | 0380731290 |
This time out, smalltown caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild's neighbor, Pix Miller, takes center stage, heading off to Norway to investigate the sudden disappearance of a family friend. Determined to discover the truth, Pix is drawn into a suspenseful world of intrigue, stolen antiques,...
A scintillating collection of stories from the master of science fiction.
Since the beginning of his career in the 1940s, Ray Bradbury has become synonymous with great science fiction from the pulp comic books of his early work to his adaptations for television, stage and screen and most notably...
We’re all Orphans in the Black …
Strap yourself in for nineteen thrilling short stories of space pirates, time travelers, aliens, AI, and more! Meet determined heroes forging their own path through the universe, men and women who won’t go down without a fight.
Be transported...
Destination: Murder: A Travelogue of Cozy Mysteries
MURDER NEVER TAKES A HOLIDAY!
Pack your bags and buckle up! We've got eight exciting tales of mystery and murder, each with a twist you won't see coming. Destination: Murder is a limited edition, cozy mystery boxed set with eight full-length, never-before-published novels. These bestselling...
| Author | Kate Douglas |
| ISBN | 0758269366 |
Their human form is ephemeral, but their sexual desire is endless. Enter the mysteriously sensual world of the shapeshifters and share in their erotic passion. . .
"Dream Catcher" by Kate Douglas
She comes to him at night in dreams of carnal pleasure. Real or imagined, Mac doesn't...
