Books like 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.
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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.
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 Moonstone
A sacred Indian diamond left to a young English heiress vanishes from her Yorkshire house on the night of her eighteenth birthday, and the people who were there tell the story of the hunt for it in turn.
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 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.
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 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 Cat Who Could Read Backwards
Jim Qwilleran, a down-on-his-luck reporter assigned to the art beat of the Daily Fluxion, stumbles into murder in the city's art world, with help from Koko, the Siamese cat of the paper's acid-tongued art critic.
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
Four Christmas crime stories, two of them featuring Adam Dalgliesh, written over the years for magazines.
The Wench Is Dead
Laid up in an Oxford hospital with a bleeding ulcer, Chief Inspector Morse reads an old account of the 1859 murder of Joanna Franks on the Oxford Canal, for which two boatmen were hanged, and sets out to solve it again from his bed.
Mother-Daughter Murder Night
Lana Rubicon, a high-powered Los Angeles estate agent recovering from cancer, has to stay with her daughter Beth in a rural cottage on Elkhorn Slough, and when her granddaughter Jack finds a body while kayaking, Lana decides to help solve it.
The Daughter of Time
Laid up in hospital with a broken leg, Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard grows interested in a portrait of Richard III and sets out to learn whether the king really murdered the princes in the Tower.