Books like Crocodile on the Sandbank
In 1884 Amelia Peabody, a wealthy, strong-minded Englishwoman of thirty-two, sets off for Egypt with a young woman she rescued in Rome, and runs into Radcliffe Emerson, a rude archaeologist, and a mummy that walks at night.
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Her Royal Spyness
In 1932 Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fourth in line to the throne and flat broke, flees her brother's Scottish castle for London, where the Queen asks her to spy on the Prince of Wales and a body turns up in her bath.
Dial A for Aunties
When Meddelin Chan accidentally kills her blind date, her meddling mother and three aunties help her hide the body, which ends up in a cooler at the extravagant island wedding their family business is running.
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
Newly retired from her London PR firm to a Cotswolds village, Agatha Raisin enters a shop-bought quiche in the local baking competition to win friends, and the judge drops dead after eating it.
A Master of Djinn
A queer woman detective investigates a locked-room murder in a 1912 Cairo powered by djinn, automatons, and revolutionary politics.
Aunt Dimity's Death
Down on her luck in Boston, Lori Shepherd learns that Aunt Dimity, the heroine of her late mother's bedtime stories, was a real Englishwoman who has left her a Cotswolds cottage and a mystery to unravel.
One for the Money
Laid off from selling lingerie, Stephanie Plum of Trenton, New Jersey, talks her cousin Vinnie into hiring her as a bounty hunter, and her first skip is Joe Morelli, a cop wanted for murder who seduced and dumped her when they were teenagers.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
Hannah Swensen, who runs The Cookie Jar bakery in Lake Eden, Minnesota, finds the town's well-liked dairy delivery man shot behind her shop, with her cookies scattered beside him, and starts asking questions.
Death on the Nile
A young heiress is shot dead aboard a Nile steamer on her honeymoon, and Poirot sorts through a boatload of passengers who all had reasons to want her gone.
River God
Taita, a gifted eunuch slave in ancient Egypt, tells of the love between his young mistress Lostris and the soldier Tanus, which her powerful father forbids, as Egypt is torn by civil war and threatened by invaders with horses and chariots.
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
In a lost manuscript by Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes, in the grip of cocaine, is tricked into travelling to Vienna to be treated by a young doctor named Sigmund Freud.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
With the money from her late father's cattle, Precious Ramotswe opens the first detective agency in Botswana run by a woman, and sets about solving the problems of the people of Gaborone with common sense and bush tea.
The Murder at the Vicarage
When the widely disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot in the vicar's study in the village of St Mary Mead, there is no shortage of suspects, and the vicar's elderly neighbour, Miss Jane Marple, has her own ideas.