Books like Night encounter by Anthony Gilbert

When Belgian detective Hercule Poirot returns to the English village of King's Abbot, he confronts the murder of industrialist Roger Ackroyd, unraveling a web of family secrets and hidden motives that reveal the culprit was nobody he expected.

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Agatha Christie’s witty detective duo, run Blunt’s International Detective Agency, solving diverse mysteries from stolen pearls to poisoned chocolates, proving that every case can be cracked in 24 hours.

Former golf retreat turned murder mystery: Henry Gamadge, renowned consultant on old books and crime, suspects a staged death at a cliffside when Amberley Crowden’s body is found, and must untangle the intrigue involving her cousin and a troupe of actors before the final curtain falls.

When Lee Jordan gets lost on the way to a business conference, she finds herself lost in love with the stranger she meets, a man she is destined to meet.

A fast-moving train and a series of deadly secrets lead a lawyer to rescue a woman in peril.

The victim was certainly deserving of death. But not the hard, cruel death that he found. No-one deserved that. But the murderer made him suffer it, nevertheless. And the murderer went unsuspected. Someone else would pay the price society demanded for the crime. An innocent woman would pay, and the murderer was willing to arrange other, more 'accidental' deaths to ensure it. But then Arthur Crook took a hand. Big, fat, crafty and cocksure Arthur Crook is a solicitor — but the most unorthodox one it is possible to imagine. And he has two guiding principles only: his client is always innocent — because he says so — and come hell or high water he always gets his man. But even these two hitherto immutable principles were placed in some peril this time — in what turned out to be one of Crook's most baffling cases.

A gripping tale of mystery and intrigue, following the pursuit of justice by a private investigator who uncovered the truth behind two murders.

Private‑detective Arthur Crook tackles a London mystery where a missing milliner’s disappearance, a strangled bird and a smuggling ring collide, forcing him to protect an innocent artist and chase a death‑threatening conspiracy.

Arthur Crook, the cockney criminal lawyer in his mustard‑suit and bowler hat, chases a new murder mystery that pits him against a host of polished suspects and a luxury yellow Rolls‑Royce.

When Emily Tate disappears, her husband Stephen Tate seeks help from Inspector Marston and eventually enlists the unorthodox private investigator Arthur Crook. A tangled web of secrets, unrequited love, and danger threatens to overwhelm them all.

A nice little murder mystery set in England involving a private investigator named Arthur Crook and a Dutch au pair woman who is romantically linked to the main character.