The Hog's Back Mystery
10 best books like The Hog's Back Mystery (Freeman Wills Crofts): Mystery in White, The Santa Klaus Murder, Murder Underground, Thirteen Guests, Death of an Airman, Murder of a Lady, Death in the Tunnel, Fire in the Thatch, The Cheltenham Square Murder, 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 | Mavis Doriel Hay |
| ISBN | 1464204950 |
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,...
| Author | Mavis Doriel Hay |
| ISBN | 0712357254 |
If you were suddenly to be found murdered, would your friends have theories about who had done the deed?
Well, when the wealthy and unpleasant Miss Pongleton meets her end on the stairs of Belsize Park underground station in 'Murder Underground', her housemates — though not particularly...
| 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 | Christopher St. John Sprigg |
| ISBN | 0712356150 |
Death of an Airman is an enjoyable and unorthodox whodunit from a writer whose short life was as remarkable as that of any of his fictional creations. When an aeroplane crashes, and its pilot is killed, Edwin Marriott, the Bishop of Cootamundra in Australia, is on hand. In England on leave, the Bishop...
| 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 | 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...
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...
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...
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...
