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The Seven Dials Mystery Agatha Christie · 1920 · ★ 3.8 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Brings back several characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys, in a story that can best be described as a John Buchan thriller told by P.G. Wodehouse. (https://agathachristie.fandom.com/wiki/The_Seven_Dials_Mystery) Consummate young silly ass Gerry Wade is the despair of hosts and hostesses across the land, with his inability to make it to breakfast before the eggs are congealed,… Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, Police

The Price Of Love Peter Robinson · 2010 This book is a collection of psychological insight that are the main characterization of Perter Robinson novels. Since the creation of fictional Chief Inspector Alan Banks, Robinson has built a reputation for readable novels that probe the dark side of human nature, Robinson develops the personality of his characters in detail. He relates their lives outside their workday. Chief character Alan… Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, Police

Death in Holy Orders P. D. James · 2001 · ★ 3.9 · 438p · ≈ 14h · Moderate From Amazon.com: From the award-winning master of literary crime fiction, a classic work rich in tense drama and psychological insight. On the East Anglian seacoast, a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. When the body of a student is found buried in the sand, the boy’s influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate.… Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, Police

From Doon with Death Ruth Rendell · 1965 · ★ 3.7 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Dazzling psychological suspense. Razor-sharp dialogue. Plots that catch and hold like a noose. These are the hallmarks of crime legend Ruth Rendell, “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world” (Time magazine). From Doon with Death, now in a striking new paperback edition, is her classic debut novel -- and the book that introduced one of the most popular sleuths of the twentieth… Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, Police

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Agatha Christie · 1940 · ★ 3.8 · 201p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now – in the words of the… Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, Police

Whose Body? Dorothy L. Sayers · 1923 · ★ 3.8 · 155p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The first of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, in which the suave and witty gentleman foregoes a rare-book auction to investigate the presence of a bespectacled nude body in an architect's bathtub near the Wimsey's Denver estate Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, Police

A Mind to Murder P. D. James · 1963 · ★ 3.8 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman sprawled on the basement floor, a chisel thrust through her heart. As Dalgliesh probes beneath the apparently unruffled calm of the clinic, he discovers that many an intrigue lies hidden behind the… Shares: English Detective and mystery stories, Police

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