Murder Underground
10 best books like Murder Underground (Mavis Doriel Hay): Mystery in White, The Sussex Downs Murder, The Hog's Back Mystery, Murder in Piccadilly, Death in the Tunnel, Verdict of Twelve, The Poisoned Chocolates Case, The Cheltenham Square Murder, The 12:30 from Croydon, Murder by Matchlight
| Author | J. Jefferson Farjeon |
On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been lit and the table laid for tea – but no one is at home.
Trapped together for Christmas, the passengers are seeking to unravel...
| 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 | 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...
'Scores of men and women died daily in London, but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart. Death had become something very real.'
When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang night...
| 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 | 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,...
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...
On a damp November evening in wartime London, a young chemist sits on a bench in Regent's Park and watches as an approaching stranger suddenly disappears beneath a footbridge. Seconds later another figure appears on the same overpass, stops to smoke and discard a cigarette, and strikes a match that...
