Books like 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.
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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.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
A wealthy widower is stabbed in his study in a quiet English village, and the retired Poirot takes the case with the help of the local doctor who narrates it.
The Red House Mystery
Antony Gillingham, a gentleman of leisure, arrives at the Red House to visit a friend just as a shot is fired behind a locked office door, and the host's black-sheep brother is found dead inside.
The Thursday Murder Club
Four friends in a Kent retirement village meet every Thursday to pore over unsolved murders, and when a real killing happens on their doorstep, they set out to solve it before the police can.
Last Bus to Woodstock
Two young women give up on the bus to Woodstock and decide to hitch a lift. That night one of them is found dead in the yard of a Woodstock pub, and Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis go looking for the other.
Magpie Murders
Editor Susan Ryeland settles down with the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest mystery, in which detective Atticus Pünd investigates a death in a 1950s English village, and discovers the final chapters are missing just as news comes of the author's own death.
The Judas Window
James Answell is found unconscious in a locked study beside the body of his prospective father-in-law, shot through with an arrow, and Sir Henry Merrivale has to prove at the Old Bailey that he didn't do it.
Aunty Lee's Delights
When a body washes up on a tourist beach on Sentosa, Rosie Lee, the widowed owner of a Peranakan café and catering business in Singapore known to all as Aunty Lee, decides the police could use her help.
The Word Is Murder
Diana Cowper, a wealthy widow, arranges her own funeral and is strangled six hours later, and Daniel Hawthorne, a sacked detective now consulting for the police, asks Anthony Horowitz to write a book about him solving it.
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.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
In the summer of 1950 at Buckshaw, the crumbling English country house she shares with her widowed father and two older sisters, eleven-year-old chemist Flavia de Luce finds a dead bird on the doorstep with a stamp pinned to its beak.
The Big Bow Mystery
In a lodging house in Bow, in London's East End, a young idealist is found with his throat cut in a room bolted from the inside, and the retired detective next door is baffled.