For the best crime/mystery novels set in Britain.
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Sep 19, 2009 03:34AM
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective is not fiction.
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Canary wrote: "Still no book found like it doesn't exist. This is getting to be a real problem for me."9780340281048 works but no cover piccie
Bettie wrote: "Canary wrote: "Still no book found like it doesn't exist. This is getting to be a real problem for me."
9780340281048 works but no cover piccie
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Thanks Bettie! I am giving up for now as tired.
9780340281048 works but no cover piccie
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Thanks Bettie! I am giving up for now as tired.
Carol wrote: "I see I'm going to have to read some PD James and search for more Norah Lofts."
A NL is on the way. ;-)
It seems I have read the Moonstone but not certain.
Forgetful!
A NL is on the way. ;-)
It seems I have read the Moonstone but not certain.
Forgetful!
Iain wrote: "Free NE UK set crime thriller - offer closes 22 Feb 2014
"Positively Shakespearian...if I could only recommend one book this year it would be Heavy Duty Peop..."
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is scandinavian not british...&
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is german...
I love The Great Gatsby but it's not a British mystery by a British author. Isn't this the Great American Novel, or at least one of them? Also, Angela's Ashes is an Irish memoir, not a mystery/crime novel.
This list is playing it a bit fast and loose with the "British" descriptor. And actually, a good chunk of these aren't mysteries either.
I don't think Stieg Larsson belongs on this list. Or Gatsby, or Secret History as someone else said.
Vicki wrote: "Murder on the Orient Express is set in central Europe, isn't it?"At least it's written by a British person - it's not quite as far adrift as some of them!
Vicki wrote: "Murder on the Orient Express is set in central Europe, isn't it?"Well, it opens in America where the initial crime takes place. It then moves to a train that travels from Paris to Istanbul. But it's by a British author. And these reasons are why I think this book is a literary masterpiece: there are so few EPIC murder mysteries.
Irwin wrote: "John Dickson Carr, as "British" as one can get."well, that's true, but he was American born.
- The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) is set in Barcelona (by a Spanish author)- The Memory Keeper's Daughter is set in the US (by an American author)
I just love the Agatha Christie novels: The Miss Marple stories are my favourite. Even though I own few of them, I must have read all the Agatha Christie novels I could lay my hands on over the years :-)
A question:Who knows the name of the British crime writer whose hero, apart from being a police officer, is an expert in Staffordshire china figurines?
Liora
Could someone remove #63 The Girl Who Played with Fire please? Not a British author nor a British setting. Yes, I like it too, but it just doesn't belong on this list.
Vicki wrote: "Could someone remove #63 The Girl Who Played with Fire please? Not a British author nor a British setting. Yes, I like it too, but it just doesn't belong on this list."Agreed (and done)
Rebekah wrote: "Really, My Ántonia ?"~~~~~~~~
I thought the same. This list desperately needs someone to clean it up.















