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Inoffensive’ female victim had a long list of enemies The Death at the Opera edition published by Vintage Publishing Mrs Bradley uses all h...

A Miss Silver mystery with a bonus romance for the reader The action in The Chinese Shawl takes place among guests at a country house Aft...

Novelist draws on her love for New Zealand and the theatre Vintage Murder begins as Roderick Alleyn makes a train journey across New Zeal...

Academic created a series detective who went on to have a 50-year career The cover of the Agora Books edition of the first Appleby novel Mic...

Author departs from tradition by letting her detective fall in love Strong Poison is the fifth of Dorothy L Sayers's Wimsey novels Dor...

A light-hearted caper with a satisfying ending The cover of the 2017 edition,  published by Harper Collins Agatha Christie once again chos...

Not so much a whodunit, more a question of who is trying to do it Danger Point was first  published in 1941 The self-effacing, elderly lad...