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The Beast Must Die

9 best books like The Beast Must Die (Nicholas Blake): Brat Farrar, Beast In View, The Red House Mystery, Trent's Last Case, The Poisoned Chocolates Case, Smallbone Deceased, Tragedy at Law, The Madman of Bergerac, The Religious Body

Brat Farrar
AuthorJosephine Tey
ISBN0684803852
What begins as a ploy to claim an inheritance ends with the impostor's life hanging in the balance. In this tale of mystery and suspense, a stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully...
Beast In View
AuthorMargaret Millar
ISBN0786706678
A psychological thriller by a mistress of suspense at the top of her form and 1956 winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award. What starts with a crank call from an old school chum sets the lonely, aloof, financially comfortable Miss Helen Clarvoe on a path as predictable only as madness. Lured from her rooms in...
The Red House Mystery
AuthorA.A. Milne
ISBN0486401294
The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore, A. A. Milne was also the author of numerous dramas, essays, and novels for adults — among them, this droll and finely crafted whodunit.
In it, Milne takes readers to the Red House, a comfortable...
Trent's Last Case
AuthorE.C. Bentley
ISBN0755103270
On Wall Street, the mere mention of the name Sigsbee Manderson is enough to send a stock soaring—or bring it tumbling back to earth. Feared but not loved, Manderson has no one to mourn him when the gardener at his British country estate finds him facedown in the dirt, a bullet buried in his brain. There...
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,...
Smallbone Deceased
AuthorMichael Gilbert
ISBN0460024051
I've read a couple of other books by Michael Gilbert and have enjoyed them all so far. Smallbone Deceased ranks up there with Petrella at Q as my favorites of his. Smallbone is a perfect little mystery. It's billed as an Inspector Hazelrigg mystery and, indeed, the good Inspector does play a prominent...
Tragedy at Law
AuthorCyril Hare
ISBN0330377388
A judge commits a crime of negligence after receiving a death threat...a crime that might completely derail his career, if the person writing the death threats doesn't get him first!

I liked this but called it pretty early, then spent the rest of the book paranoid that my solution was a red herring....
The Madman of Bergerac
AuthorGeorges Simenon
ISBN0141394560
A new translation of Simenon's tense novel, book fifteen in the new Penguin Maigret series.

He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep - was it really sleep? - his sighs, and his sobbing. Then the two dangling legs, the patent-leather shoes and hand-knitted socks . . . An insipid...
The Religious Body
AuthorCatherine Aird
ISBN1601870124
Just recently I read Past Tense, the most current in Catherine Aird's Inspector Sloan series. When I was hunting around for more books to read for the Birth Year Challenge: Time Machine Version, I was interested to see that the very first Sloan book, The Religious Body, was published in my target year:...
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