Best Golden Age Mystery Books

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

Belgian Inspector Hercule Poirot has retired to the countryside in the small English village of King's Abbot. Dr. Sheppard, observing his new neighbor, is sure that he must be a former hairdresser. But the brutal murder...

Gaudy Night

by Dorothy L

Harriet Vane attends her Gaudy (reunion) at Oxford to find a mystery brewing. The first part of the book involves Harriet and the dons (professors) at her college. Lord Peter Wimsey also helps with the investigation by...

The Three Coffins

by John Dickson Carr

The Greek Coffin Mystery

by Ellery Queen

After the death of an elderly Greek man who is an internationally famous art dealer and collector, his attorney discovers that his will is missing and notifies the district attorney. When Inspector Richard Queen of the N...

The Bishop Murder Case

by SS Van Dine

Enter a Murderer

by Ngaio Marsh

The script of the Unicorn Theatre's new play uncannily echoes a quarrel in the star's dressing room. And the stage drama gets all too real when charming Felix Gardener shoots his blustering rival, Arthur Surbonardier, de...

Police at the Funeral

by Margery Allingham

The imperious Great Aunt Caroline Faraday runs her old Cambridge residence like a Victorian fiefdom, unconcerned with the fact that it's 1931. Furniture and meals are heavy and elaborate, both motorcars and morning tea a...

Some Buried Caesar

by Rex Stout

'Some buried Caesar': A prize bull, a restaurateur's tacky publicity stunt, a family feud (among the bull's owners), and the death of a family scion pit Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin against a special breed of killer. 'T...

The Corpse Steps Out

by Craig Rice

Death in the Stocks

by Georgette Heyer

**Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway #1** The moonlight shone on the quiet village green when an English bobbie returning from night patrol finds on a man's two motionless feet stuck through the holes of a pair of stocks....