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10 best books like Six Against the Yard (Dorothy L. Sayers): The Mongolian Wizard, The Santa Klaus Murder, The Hog's Back Mystery, Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries, Murder of a Lady, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, The Maul and the Pear Tree, The Horizontal Man, A Night in the Cemetery and Other Stories of Crime & Suspense, Somebody at the Door

The Mongolian Wizard
AuthorMichael Swanwick
ISBN1466823186
Review first posted at Fantasy Literature:

"The Mongolian Wizard" is the first story in a series of an alternative late 19th century Europe inhabited by wizards and magical creatures. (The author is up to nine of these short stories now, all available at Tor.com).

Junior Lieutenant...
The Santa Klaus Murder
AuthorMavis Doriel Hay
ISBN1464204950
When it comes to Christmas stories, one typically thinks of those that embody the spirit of the season, such as O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi” and Charles Dickens’s 'A Christmas Carol'.

The Yuletide-themed murder mystery is not usually the first thing that comes to mind. But in 1936,...
The Hog's Back Mystery
AuthorFreeman 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...
Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries
AuthorMartin Edwards
Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this new...
Murder of a Lady
AuthorAnthony Wynne
ISBN0712356231
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...
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
AuthorMichael Sims
ISBN0143105663
Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for...
The Maul and the Pear Tree
AuthorP.D. James
ISBN0140131868
During a dark night in December 1811, in London's East End, a tradesman, his young wife, sleeping baby, and a shop boy were battered to death in their home. Days later, a pub owner, his wife, and a servant were similarly killed. No motive was found.
P.D. James, collaborating with a former colleageue,...
The Horizontal Man
AuthorHelen Eustis
ISBN0140007180
This was a weird book, just weird.

First off, it's about a popular, handsome, debonair, poetic, young male teacher of English literature at a posh or elite girls' college circa 1943 or so. He's found dead, bludgeoned by a fireplace poker. (Pokers can come in so handy.) This happens on the very...
A Night in the Cemetery and Other Stories of Crime & Suspense
AuthorAnton Chekhov
ISBN1933648864
Considered one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Anton Chekhov began his literary career as a crime and mystery writer. Scattered throughout periodicals and literary journals from 1880-1890, these early psychological suspense stories provide a fresh look into Chekhov’s literary heritage...
Somebody at the Door
AuthorRaymond Postgate
ISBN1448214297
One bleak Friday evening in January, 1942, Councillor Henry Grayling boards an overcrowded train with £120 in cash wages to be paid out the next day to the workers of Barrow and Furness Chemistry and Drugs Company. When Councillor Grayling finally finds the only available seat in a third-class carriage,...
Via delle Oche
AuthorCarlo Lucarelli
ISBN8838912599
Via delle Oche, a Bologna, è una strada rinomata. Prima della Legge Merlin, vi erano le case chiuse. Tra mercoledì 14 aprile 1948 e giovedì 15 luglio 1948 (un pugno di mesi che include svolte decisive: le elezioni del Quarantotto, l'attentato a Togliatti, Bartali maglia gialla) un'inchiesta di...
The Scoop and Behind the Screen
AuthorJulian Symons
ISBN0575032251
"The Scoop" first appeared as a serial in the Listener in 1931.
"Behind the Screen" first appeared as a serial in the Listener in 1930.
The two serials were first published in book form in the UK by Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1983 and in the US by Harper & Row in 1984.

It was another foggy...
The False Inspector Dew
AuthorPeter Lovesey
ISBN1569472556
The year is 1921. A passionate affair between voracious romance reader Alma Webster and her dentist, Walter Baranov, has led to his wife’s murder. The lovers take flight aboard the Mauretania and the dentist takes the name of Inspector Dew, the detective who arrested the notorious wifekiller Dr....
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
AuthorAnthony Berkeley
ISBN0440168449
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,...
The Untouched Crime
AuthorZijin Chen
ISBN1503937399
For three years, a serial killer has walked among the citizens of Hangzhou, China. With each new body come the same clues: a jump rope, a cigarette, and a slip of paper that says, “Come and get me.”

In the same city, Luo Wen wanders into a park just as a young woman stabs a local thug to death in...
Mr Campion and Others
AuthorMargery Allingham
ISBN0140087834
An enthusiastic equestrian who lives for hunting foxes, pretty women, and other people's jewelry ... A resilient nonagenarian who keeps returning from the dead to scam unsuspecting insurance companies... A safecracker who prides himself on professional incompetence ... Now gentleman detective...
Going Under
AuthorJennifer M. Barry
ISBN1492159409
Chase Bradford, king of New York City’s high school elite, is dragged to Nashville for his senior year at St. Ambrose Academy. On his second day, the Queen Bee is found dead in the school swimming pool. Chase isn’t surprised, since he saw a vision on the water’s surface during swim practice just...
Murder on the Moor
AuthorC.S. Challinor
ISBN0738719811
When barrister Rex Graves invites a group of friends to Gleneagle Lodge, he doesn't anticipate the arrival of an old flame--much less a dead body or serial killer. Rex's houseguest and colleague Alistair, who recently made an unsuccessful attempt to convict a man for the notorious Moor Murders, now...
In the Teeth of the Evidence
AuthorDorothy L. Sayers
All that was left of the garage was a heap of charred and smouldering beams. In the driving seat of the burnt-out car were the remains of a body...

An accident, said the police.

An accident, said the widow. She had been warning her husband about the danger of the car for months.

Murder,...
The Riddle of the Traveling Skull
AuthorHarry Stephen Keeler
ISBN1932416269
The Collins Library is proud to present the triumphant return of Harry Stephen Keeler — to some, an overlooked genius; to others, the Ed Wood of detective fiction. The Riddle of the Traveling Skull is perhaps his best-loved work. The adventure begins when a poem and a mysterious handbag lead a man to...
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