British Detectives Books


Mrs. Malory and the Fatal Legacy : A Sheila Malory MysteryMrs. Malory and the Fatal Legacy : A Sheila Malory Mystery
Best Price: $30.95
Mrs. Malory and the Fatal Legacy is the ninth contemporary cozy in Hazel Holt's ever British...
Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple Mysteries)Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple Mysteries)
Best Price: $7.98
It was rather bittersweet reading "Sleeping Murder," knowing that it was not only Miss...
Rasputin's Revenge (Auguste Lupa)Rasputin's Revenge (Auguste Lupa)
Best Price: $4.85
I did not read "Son of Holmes" the first book that featured the Frenchman Jules Giraud...
The Winds of ChangeThe Winds of Change
Best Price: $2.35
This recent Inspector Jury novel by Martha Grimes will have readers in two categories, those who...
The Old Fox Deceiv'd (Richard Jury Mystery)The Old Fox Deceiv'd (Richard Jury Mystery)
Best Price: $57.96
The Old Fox Deceiv'd, by Martha Grimes, is the second in the series of this exceptionally...


The Dead SecretThe Dead Secret
Best Price: $4.75
Wilkie Collins has written some brilliant crime/mystery novels during his career, most notably...
The Circular Staircase (Dover Mystery Classics)The Circular Staircase (Dover Mystery Classics)
Best Price: $3.99
This is Mary Roberts Rinehart at her best. The author tells a haunting tale which is on a par...
Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
Best Price: $1.96
I love the format of this collection. Each story has a short preface that gives some...
High Time to KillHigh Time to Kill
Best Price: $4.49
As a long time 007 fan, I have just re-read all of Raymond Benson's Bond novels in the...
The Complete Sherlock HolmesThe Complete Sherlock Holmes
Best Price: $80.00
The first Sherlock Holmes book I ever read was given to me as a gift for my thirteenth birthday....


Agatha Christie: An AutobiographyAgatha Christie: An Autobiography
Best Price: $50.63
I want to say, up front, that I'm a HUGE Christie fan -- I've read everything that she...
An Instance of the FingerpostAn Instance of the Fingerpost
Best Price: $2.98
This is a long (680 pgs in my paperback edition--bought from A.c, by the way) historical novel...
Evan Help Us (Constable Evans Mystery)Evan Help Us (Constable Evans Mystery)
Best Price: $24.00
That's surprising given I've been to Wales and it was very foggy and damp -- but the...
Evan Only Knows (Constable Evans Mysteries)Evan Only Knows (Constable Evans Mysteries)
Best Price: $15.01
This is a must read book in the series as Constable Evans faces his past. A quirky beginning...
Driving ForceDriving Force
Best Price: $2.47
Dick Francis finds dozens of ways to use the backdrop of racing for his novels, showing a truly...

Deep SleepDeep Sleep
Best Price: $45.99
The "most psychologically assured novel to date" (The Times) by an Edgar Award...
The Five Bells and BladeboneThe Five Bells and Bladebone
Best Price: $1.98
Of all the Richard Jury-featured novels, I think that "The Five Bells and Bladebone"...
An English MurderAn English Murder
Best Price: $0.98
I'm not quite sure what I expected when I began reading this book. A cozy little mystery...
The Emperor's Assassin: Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner (Dell Mystery)The Emperor's Assassin: Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner (Dell Mystery)
Best Price: $3.25
Set in the summer of 1815, this second Henry Morton murder mystery focuses on the deadly...
The Murders of Richard IIIThe Murders of Richard III
Best Price: $0.90
Thomas doesn't know why he isn't making any progress with lovely academic Jacqueline...

Funeral in Blue (William Monk Novels)Funeral in Blue (William Monk Novels)
Best Price: $2.49
I give the five stars for the exploration of the minds and hearts that Ms. Perry writes in...
Cruel as the GraveCruel as the Grave
Best Price: $3.57
Sharon Kay Penman is, I think, one of if not the best writer of historically based, honest,...
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire and Other Stories (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire and Other Stories (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)
Best Price: $31.99
Known and loved by generation after generation, this shrewd amateur detective, with faithful...
Halloween Party (Poirot)Halloween Party (Poirot)
Best Price: $6.61
A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples! At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce -- a...
Murder Is AnnouncedMurder Is Announced
I received it promptly on February 12, 2010. I am very happy with my purchase. Thank you!

Dumb Witness (Poirot Facsimile)Dumb Witness (Poirot Facsimile)The Old Wine Shades: A Richard Jury Mystery (Richard Jury Mysteries)The Old Wine Shades: A Richard Jury Mystery (Richard Jury Mysteries)
Best Price: $79.30
This was my first and definitely my last Marth Grimes novel. This book was a true waste of...
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Penguin Classics)The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $3.00
I first became aware of "The Riddle of the Sands" as a child of twelve. The BBC...
Madame Maigret's Own CaseMadame Maigret's Own Case
Best Price: $6.53
On Rue de Turenne, two human teeth are found in the old furnace of a Flemish bookbinder, who is...
The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence)The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence)
Best Price: $30.94
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was...

Evil Under the Sun: Radio DramatizationEvil Under the Sun: Radio Dramatization
An exclusive hotel on a tiny, picturesque island seems to be the ideal retreat from the stresses...
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama (BBC Audio Crime)The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama (BBC Audio Crime)
Best Price: $6.50
In this delightful tale, an Eastern Prince arrives in England with some family jewels for his...
Clubbable Woman (Dalziel & Pascoe Novel)Clubbable Woman (Dalziel & Pascoe Novel)
Best Price: $62.25
While going on vacation with a pile of scholarly books and papers, I grabbed a couple of early...
The Ebony Coffin: A Jim Kirkwood NovelThe Ebony Coffin: A Jim Kirkwood Novel
Best Price: $14.95
Readers who like mystery and adventure will love visiting Jim Kirkwood's spectacular world...
The Snack Attack MysteryThe Snack Attack Mystery
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Chip, an invisible boy, and his friends investigate the...

Mystery Blue TrainMystery Blue Train
The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice...When the luxurious...
Shroud for a NightingaleShroud for a Nightingale
An Adam Dalgliesh mystery by an award-winning, internationally acclaimed novelist. Two student...
Man in the QueueMan in the Queue
Best Price: $3.06
Over the years I've read at least two other books by Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time ,...
The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence)The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence)
Best Price: $30.94
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was...
Evil Under the Sun: Radio DramatizationEvil Under the Sun: Radio Dramatization
An exclusive hotel on a tiny, picturesque island seems to be the ideal retreat from the stresses...

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama (BBC Audio Crime)The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama (BBC Audio Crime)
Best Price: $6.50
In this delightful tale, an Eastern Prince arrives in England with some family jewels for his...
Clubbable Woman (Dalziel & Pascoe Novel)Clubbable Woman (Dalziel & Pascoe Novel)
Best Price: $62.25
While going on vacation with a pile of scholarly books and papers, I grabbed a couple of early...
The Ebony Coffin: A Jim Kirkwood NovelThe Ebony Coffin: A Jim Kirkwood Novel
Best Price: $14.95
Readers who like mystery and adventure will love visiting Jim Kirkwood's spectacular world...
The Snack Attack MysteryThe Snack Attack Mystery
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Chip, an invisible boy, and his friends investigate the...
Mystery Blue TrainMystery Blue Train
The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice...When the luxurious...

Shroud for a NightingaleShroud for a Nightingale
An Adam Dalgliesh mystery by an award-winning, internationally acclaimed novelist. Two student...
Man in the QueueMan in the Queue
Best Price: $3.06
Over the years I've read at least two other books by Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time ,...
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Oxford Bookworms Library, Level 4)The Hound of the Baskervilles (Oxford Bookworms Library, Level 4)
Best Price: $5.78
Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the Southwest of England. A place where it is easy to get lost,...
The Mystery of CloomberThe Mystery of Cloomber
Best Price: $4.44
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous...
Remembrance (Inspirational S)Remembrance (Inspirational S)
Best Price: $10.46
Of all Agatha Christie's books this one might be the least well known. We all know AND THEN...

End in Tears: A Wexford Novel (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries)End in Tears: A Wexford Novel (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries)
Best Price: $2.90
The town of Kingsmarkham in Sussex is having one of the hottest days on record, the heat...
Not in the Flesh: A Wexford Novel (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries)Not in the Flesh: A Wexford Novel (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries)
Best Price: $0.61
Chief Inspector Wexford appears for the 21st time in Ruth Rendell's latest police...
A Vow of Chastity (Sister Joan Mystery)A Vow of Chastity (Sister Joan Mystery)
Best Price: $6.20
The sanctity of a Cornish convent stands in stark contrast to the evil which pervades the nearby...
The Diamond CatThe Diamond Cat
Best Price: $3.74
A glittering object drops to the floor. What's a hungry cat to do? Swallow it of course. ...
Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 8)Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 8)
Best Price: $1.00
Agatha Raisin is bit depressed over her lost relationship with her former fiancé....

A Detective in Love: A MysteryA Detective in Love: A Mystery
Best Price: $6.18
When beautiful tennis star Barbara (Bubbles) Xingara is found murdered, the rural police force...
The Young Widow (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)The Young Widow (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)
Best Price: $3.67
What a wonderful, fun read. Escape to a world that is a cross between that of Peter Wimsey and...
Danger MoneyDanger Money
Best Price: $29.22
Investigating the death of Rose Manders, Susan finds suspects in the victim's...
One Corpse Too Many: The Second Chronicle of Brother CadfaelOne Corpse Too Many: The Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Best Price: $3.99
Set in 1138, Shrewsbury England, during the Anarchy; a battle for the crown between Empress Maud...
A Rare BenedictineA Rare Benedictine
Best Price: $5.51
In 1120, Cadfael saw "A Light on the Road to Woodstock". Roger Mauduit's father...

The Potter's Field: The Seventeenth Chronicle of Brother CadfaelThe Potter's Field: The Seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Best Price: $7.58
In this 17th chronicle of the detective monk, Brother Cadfael is asked to help to identify the...
Death of a Scriptwriter (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 14)Death of a Scriptwriter (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 14)
Best Price: $2.49
Lochdubh's finest, the ease-loving Police Constable Hamish Macbeth, finds himself wanting to...
Ashworth Hall (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels)Ashworth Hall (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels)
Best Price: $2.70
As the author gets farther and farther into this popular series of police procedural murder...
Death in the Devil's AcreDeath in the Devil's Acre
Best Price: $3.43
This is the 7th in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series. It starts off in the year 1887 with an...
A Perfect MatchA Perfect Match
Best Price: $45.75
This is the second Jill McGown book I've read and the first in the series. I really enjoy...

Murder on the Potomac (Capital Crime Mysteries)Murder on the Potomac (Capital Crime Mysteries)
Best Price: $2.78
Ms. Truman has had a long run of Capital Crime Mysteries now and honestly, I can't really...
The Nine GiantsThe Nine Giants
Best Price: $7.88
"Brimming with life, colorful dialogue, and, of course, drama." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ...
Five complete Miss Marple Novels: The Mirror Crack'd, A Caribean Mystery, Nemesis, What Mrs. Magillicuddy Saw!; The Body in the LibraryFive complete Miss Marple Novels: The Mirror Crack'd, A Caribean Mystery, Nemesis, What Mrs. Magillicuddy Saw!; The Body in the Library
Best Price: $53.50
This collection includes: The Mirror Crack'd, A Carribbean Mystery, Nemesis, What Mrs....
The Water Room: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery (Peculiar Crimes Unit Mysteries (Bantam Paperback))The Water Room: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery (Peculiar Crimes Unit Mysteries (Bantam Paperback))
Best Price: $5.16
#2 Bryant and May mystery, featuring our two elderly policemen and the entire PCU (Peculiar...
Death of a Perfect Wife (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 4)Death of a Perfect Wife (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 4)
This is a fine , short , to the point mystery with great Summertime Scottish scenes, eccentrics,...

Night FrostNight Frost
Best Price: $4.35
This is my first Frost book and I'm an immediate fan. I've watched all of the TV series...
Frost at Christmas (Crime Lines)Frost at Christmas (Crime Lines)
Best Price: $3.17
This story had the potential to be a cozy English mystery, but the plot has flaws so big you...
Jane and the Wandering Eye: Being the Third Jane Austen MysteryJane and the Wandering Eye: Being the Third Jane Austen Mystery
Best Price: $2.89
I confess to being a silly, shallow creature when it comes to my partiality for fine art and the...
The Victoria Vanishes: A Peculiar Crimes Unit MysteryThe Victoria Vanishes: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
Best Price: $6.85
In Christopher Fowler's "The Victoria Vanishes," the London-based Peculiar Crimes...
Jane and the Barque of Frailty (Jane Austen Mysteries)Jane and the Barque of Frailty (Jane Austen Mysteries)
Best Price: $2.56
In 1811, Jane Austen is staying with her brother and his wife Eliza because her sibling is...

The Mystery of CloomberThe Mystery of Cloomber
Best Price: $24.94
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was...
Village Affairs (Phillip Bethancourt and Jack Gibbons Mystery)Village Affairs (Phillip Bethancourt and Jack Gibbons Mystery)
Best Price: $6.95
My mom reads mysteries, nothing else. Over the years, I've gained a fair bit of knowledge...
Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 8)Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 8)
Best Price: $5.03
Agatha Raisin's love life is in a mess . . . even though she's found a great hair...
The Nun's Tale: An Owen Archer MysteryThe Nun's Tale: An Owen Archer Mystery
Best Price: $7.79
The Nun's Tale is the third Owen Archer mystery. It's 1366, and a nun, gone missing a...
The Riddle of St. Leonard's (Owen Archer Mysteries)The Riddle of St. Leonard's (Owen Archer Mysteries)
Best Price: $7.38
Wow, I've read this series of books hungrily.... in my car at lunch, while home sick in bed,...

One Day a Lemming Will Fly (Cracker)One Day a Lemming Will Fly (Cracker)
Best Price: $3.99
Fitz is furious with his wife; annoyed by his dropout son; attracted to his sometime partner at...
The Seven Dials Mystery (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)The Seven Dials Mystery (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)
Best Price: $313.34
As far as location goes, Agatha Christie appeared to be drawn to Chimneys like PG Wodehouse to...
The Rich DetectiveThe Rich DetectiveDeath in the FamilyDeath in the Family
Best Price: $2.05
THIS IS A MUST READ SERIES, THEY SHOULD BE READ FIRST TO LAST. SHE TAKES THE LOYD, HILL...
Unlucky for Some: A Novel of SuspenseUnlucky for Some: A Novel of Suspense
Best Price: $5.31
As I read this book, I discovered that the author had recently died, so it made me more aware...

The Whitechapel Conspiracy: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt NovelThe Whitechapel Conspiracy: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Best Price: $7.22
In 1892, the grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes four years earlier by a killer dubbed...
Strong PoisonStrong Poison
Love and mystery surround Lord Peter Wimsey in this intriguing case of murder. It's up to...
Red Slayer: Being the Second of the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother AthelstanRed Slayer: Being the Second of the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan
Best Price: $6.25
i read the first and second in this series this weekend-these are must reads for those who like...
The Falcon at the Portal: An Amelia Peabody MysteryThe Falcon at the Portal: An Amelia Peabody Mystery
Best Price: $4.23
I have always trusted Barbara Michaels/Elizabeth Peters, so I did not hesitate to buy the latest...
Scared to LiveScared to Live
Best Price: $1.81
"Scared to Live" marks the return of DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper, the protagonists...

Borrowed TimeBorrowed Time
Best Price: $2.00
In the summer of 1990, five weeks after his oldest sibling Hugh died of a heart attack at...
The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D.The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D.
Best Price: $11.89
This novel is somewhat anti-climactic. (Not just because it's a Holmes novel, which...
Dancing BearDancing Bear
Best Price: $6.88
Detective Milo Dragovitch sways and swaggers through James Crumley's "Dancing...
Murder in Grub Street (Sir John Fielding)Murder in Grub Street (Sir John Fielding)
Best Price: $45.00
Bruce Alexander's second book in the "Sir John Fielding" series is a slightly...
Three Blind Mice and Other StoriesThree Blind Mice and Other Stories
Best Price: $24.00
I am a fourteen year old fan from Malaysia. I graduated from the 'Secret Seven' to...

Colour SchemeColour Scheme
Best Price: $35.99
England at war means "spy fever" for a quarrelsome collection of patriots at a shabby...
    
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