18 books like A Study In Scarlet Women

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The Alington Inheritance (A Miss Silver Mystery) Patricia Wentworth · 1958 · ★ 3.9 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Moderate When a question of inheritance turns fatal, Miss Silver searches for the killer. Jenny has never been one to feel sorry for herself. The illegitimate child of a wealthy man and a stature less woman, she has been an orphan since before she can remember. It is a hard life made bearable only by the kindness of her guardian, an old woman named Miss Garstone, who has always treated Jenny as her own.… Shares: Women private investigators, London

From the Charred Remains Susanna Calkins · 2014 · ★ 3.8 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "It's 1666 and the Great Fire has just decimated an already plague-ridden London. Lady's maid Lucy Campion, along with pretty much everyone else left standing, is doing her part to help the city clean up and recover. But their efforts come to a standstill when a couple of local boys stumble across a dead body that should have been burned up in the fire but miraculously remained intact--the body… Shares: Historical, Mystery & Detective, Women, Murder

Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith · 2000 · ★ 4.3 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency received two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the ‘International Books of the Year and the Millennium' by the Times Literary Supplement. Tears of the Giraffe takes us further into the life of the engaging and sassy Precious Ramotswe, the owner and detective of Botswana's only Ladies' detective agency. Among her cases are… Shares: Women private investigators, Mystery & Detective, Women

Maisie Dobbs Jacqueline Winspear · 2003 · ★ 4.4 · 294p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Maisie Dobbs isn’t just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence—and the patronage of her benevolent employers—she works her way into college at Cambridge. When World War I breaks out, Maisie goes to the front as a nurse. It is there that she learns that coincidences are meaningful and the truth elusive. After the War, Maisie sets up on her own as a private investigator. But her… Shares: Women private investigators, Mystery & Detective, London

The Inheritance Charles Finch · 2016 · ★ 4.5 · 307p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "A mysterious bequest of money leads to a murder in this new novel in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series whose last installment The New York Times called "a sterling addition to this well-polished series." Charles Lenox has received a cryptic plea for help from an old Harrow schoolmate, Gerald Leigh, but when he looks into the matter he finds that his friend has suddenly disappeared.… Shares: Historical, Mystery & Detective, London

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman P. D. James · 1972 · ★ 3.8 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A Cordelia Gray MysteryMeet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family, Cordelia soon realizes it is not… Shares: Women private investigators, London, Murder

The Skull Beneath the Skin P. D. James · 1982 · ★ 3.8 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, she finds the stage is set for death. From the Inside Flap Fading star Clarissa Lisle plans a spectacular comeback, to be staged in a gothic castle. But poison-pen letters bearing death… Shares: Women private investigators, London, Murder

Among the Mad Jacqueline Winspear · 2009 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate It’s Christmas Eve 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the prime minister’s office receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met—and the writer mentions Maisie by name. After being questioned and cleared by Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane of Scotland Yard’s… Shares: Women private investigators, London

She's Leaving Home William Shaw · 2014 · ★ 2.9 · 421p · ≈ 14h · Moderate London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio. The police are called to a residential street in St John's Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey Road Studios. With his reputation tarnished by an… Shares: Historical, Mystery & Detective, Murder

Killing in Zion Andrew Hunt · 2015 · ★ 3.6 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The murder of a polygamous paterfamilias forces a Salt Lake City cop to confront his Mormon past in this historical mystery.After a high-profile case thrusts deputy Art Oveson into the spotlight, Salt Lake City's mayor taps him to head the city's Anti-Polygamy Squad. As a Mormon ashamed that his own ancestors played a part in the church's polygamist past, Art's eager to do his part to remove the… Shares: Historical, Mystery & Detective, Murder

Never look back Clare Donoghue · 2014 · ★ 3.7 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Three young women have been found brutally murdered in south London, their bodies discarded in plain view, the victims only yards away from help during each attack. And each time, the murderer gets a little bit bolder. Detective Inspector Mike Lockyer is the head of homicide on the South London police force, and with three bodies on his watch and a killer growing in confidence, he and DS Jane… Shares: Mystery & Detective, London, Murder

Hard Time Sara Paretsky · 1999 · ★ 4.1 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper's staff to scramble to stay employed. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I.'s longtime friend and sometime rival, manages to reinvent himself as the host of a television show on Global's network. On her way home from a party celebrating Murray's debut, V.I. almost runs over a woman lying in the… Shares: Women private investigators, Mystery & Detective

A Rare Interest In Corpses Ann Granger · 2006 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A classic mystery from "an accomplished veteran . . . [ who] knows her history and relates it with charm in this peek at Victorian morals and foibles" (Kirkus Reviews).   It is 1864 when Lizzie Martin takes up the post of lady's companion to a wealthy widow who is also a slum landlord. Lizzie is intrigued to learn that her predecessor as companion had disappeared, supposedly… Shares: London, Murder

The vanishing box Elly Griffiths · 2018 · 357p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "In a nail-biting hunt for a missing loved one, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto discover once again that the line between art, life, and death is all too easily blurred"-- Shares: Historical, Mystery & Detective, Murder

The blue journal L. T. Graham · 2015 · 367p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "When one of Randi Conway's psychotherapy patients is found dead of a gunshot wound, the investigation is turned over to Lieutenant Anthony Walker. Formerly a New York City cop, Walker now serves on the police force of an affluent community in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He lives among the privileged gentry, where he understands that appearances are often far removed from reality. This… Shares: Mystery & Detective, Women, Murder

Who Buries the Dead C. S. Harris · 2015 · ★ 4.5 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Investigating the brutal murder of a socially ambitious plantation owner in early 19th-century London, Sebastian St. Cyr discovers a link between the case and the 17th-century beheading of King Charles. "London, 1813. The vicious decapitation of Stanley Preston, a wealthy, socially ambitious plantation owner, at Bloody Bridge draws Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, into a macabre and… Shares: Historical, Mystery & Detective, Murder

The Word Is Murder Anthony Horowitz · 2017 · ★ 3.9 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate It’s been two years since Injustice aired and Detective Daniel Hawthorne needs cash. Having gotten himself fired from his job at the Metropolitan police, Hawthorne decides to approach Anthony Horowitz. He’s investigating a bizarre and complex murder and he wants Anthony to write a book about it, a bestselling book of course, with a 50/50 split. The only catch is they need to solve the… Shares: Mystery & Detective, Women, Murder

A Stranger in Mayfair Charles Finch · 2010 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In Charles Finch's A Stranger in Mayfair, the next enthralling installment in the Charles Lenox Mysteries, detective Lenox tries to resist the lure of a case and focus on his new career in Parliament. Returning from a continental honeymoon with his new wife, Lady Jane, Lenox is asked by a colleague in Parliament to consult in the murder of a footman, bludgeoned to death with a brick. His… Shares: London, Murder

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