Books like A screen for murder by E. C. R. Lorac

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.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective tale follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate the legend of an undead hound on Dartmoor, revealing secrets that threaten a family’s legacy.

Hard‑boiled detective Sam Spade races to recover a priceless, gem‑encrusted statuette while double‑crosses and danger creep from every corner.

A pioneering English detective story in which a priceless diamond, once stolen from a Hindu idol and presented to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, disappears again, sparking intrigue and danger.

On a luxury Nile cruise, the glamorous Linnet Ridgeway is found murdered, and intrepid detective Hercule Poirot must uncover the truth amid intrigue, secrets, and false leads.

A London messenger finds himself entangled in an international conspiracy when delivering the memoirs of a deceased European count, leading to murder, blackmail, and a race to prove innocence at the historic English estate of Chimneys.

In the bleak North Country, 82‑year‑old Robert Garth is found dead in the mud of an ancient outhouse. Chief Inspector Macdonald must sift through Garth family secrets, rival neighbors and wartime tensions to unmask the killer.

A scholarly investigation into how Agatha Christie and her peers in the Detection Club reshaped crime fiction, intertwining literary analysis with biographical insight.

Chief Inspector Macdonald unravels a black‑out murder in wartime London, where a lone matchlight reveals the killer’s identity—and a deeper conspiracy tied to the victim’s true name.

A Texas Ranger and a group of paranormal investigators solve a case of murder and disappearance in San Antonio.

Three members of a distinguished family die in seemingly unrelated accidents, prompting a police investigation that questions whether foul play was involved.

During a fogged night in Hampstead, a group of locals gathers in an artist’s studio when a nearby miser is murdered; Scotland Yard’s Inspector Macdonald must sift through layered alibis to uncover the killer.

Lieutenant Sigrid Harald investigates the murder of a relic of New York's Gilded Age in this atmospheric police procedural mystery set in Gramercy Park.

A remote Welsh border village is rocked by a fatal accident involving Dr. Robinson, but a mysterious second body in his jeep forces Scotland Yard to investigate a possible murder amid snow‐bound isolation.

> It opens on a dark and misty winter night, with the central characters eagerly looking forward to a ball that is a highlight of the local social calendar. Two men are making their way to the ball by car. Nicholas Brent, an ex-naval commander who now runs an inn in the neighbourhood, has offered a lift to a barrister called Ian Macbane, who comes from out of town but has local family connections. Their conversation turns to Dilys Maine, a beautiful young woman admired by both of them, and also to the strange disappearance of a local girl, Rosemary Reeve. >Nick Brent has arranged to drive Dilys home, but on the way back after the ball, he brakes to avoid hitting a corpse that is in the middle of the road. When he goes to a nearby house to call the police, he is knocked out by a man he presumes to be Michael Reeve, brother of the girl who went missing. >These events set in train a police investigation which is hampered by the reluctance of witnesses to tell the truth. Who is the deceased, and what could have been the motive for killing him? [From the Introduction by Martin Edwards]

A nurse and former marine meet the woman he loves and try to rebuild their lives after a heart-breaking event that changes everything in their lives, including their children and the men they love, in a small town in the Virgin River valley in California. The stories are told as a series of connected Christmas stories that intertwine and build on each other, creating a beautifully crafted collection of love stories, adventure, and Christmas cheer.