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10 best books like Somebody at the Door (Raymond Postgate): Death on the Cherwell, The Hog's Back Mystery, Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries, Portrait of a Murderer, Murder of a Lady, Seven Dead, The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack, Murder in the Museum, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, The Horizontal Man

Death on the Cherwell
AuthorMavis Doriel Hay
ISBN0712357262
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,...
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...
Portrait of a Murderer
AuthorAnne Meredith
"Adrian Gray was born in May 1862 and met his death through violence, at the hands of one of his own children, at Christmas, 1931." Thus begins a classic crime novel published in 1933, a riveting portrait of the psychology of a murderer.

Each December, Adrian Gray invites his extended family...
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...
Seven Dead
AuthorJ. Jefferson Farjeon
ISBN0712356886
Ted Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies. Detective Inspector Kendall takes on the case with the help of passing...
The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack
AuthorGeorge Bellairs
ISBN0712356525
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...
Murder in the Museum
AuthorJohn Rowland
ISBN1464205795
When Professor Julius Arnell breathes his last in the hushed atmosphere of the British Museum Reading Room, it looks like death from natural causes. Who, after all, would have cause to murder a retired academic whose life was devoted to Elizabethan literature? Inspector Shelley's suspicions are...
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 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...
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...
Fire in the Thatch
AuthorE.C.R. Lorac
The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory Fitzjohn. Vaughan sets to work farming the land, rearing geese and renovating the cottage. Hard work and rural...
The Cheltenham Square Murder
AuthorJohn Bude
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...
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