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The Madman of Bergerac

9 best books like The Madman of Bergerac (Georges Simenon): Beast In View, The Red House Mystery, Trent's Last Case, The False Inspector Dew, The Poisoned Chocolates Case, Smallbone Deceased, The Beast Must Die, Tragedy at Law, The Religious Body

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 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,...
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...
The Beast Must Die
AuthorNicholas Blake
ISBN0330373218
The book starts off with the diary of Frank, who addressing the reader tells us that he is going to kill the man who ran over his son. The diary stops at the point where Frank is supposed to kill the person responsible but he fails and the yet the other person turns up dead anyways and Nigel Strangeways is invited...
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 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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