Books like Accident by design by E. C. R. Lorac

A locked‑in murder on the Orient Express forces detective Hercule Poirot to unravel a mystery among a diverse group of passengers during a snowbound night.

Hercule Poirot boards Le Train Bleu for a quiet trip to the Riviera, only to investigate the murder of American heiress Ruth Kettering in her luxury compartment.

Detective Poirot solves a murder on a short flight from Paris to London, where every passenger, from a cocaine‑addicted countess to a jealous writer, becomes a suspect.

In the tranquil village of Lymstock, a sudden wave of poison-pen letters turns the community into a web of suspicion and tragedy. When a desperate situation rises, an unlikely hero arrives to restore order.

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.

*‘Should detectives go to parties? Was it consistent with the dignity of the Yard? The inspector tossed for it - and went.’* Chief Inspector Macdonald has been invited to a treasure hunt party at the house of Graham Coombe, the celebrated publisher of *Murder by Mesmerism*. Despite a handful of misgivings, the inspector joins a guest list of novelists and thriller writers disguised on the night under literary pseudonyms. The fun comes to an abrupt end, however, when ‘Samuel Pepys’ is found dead in the telephone room in bizarre circumstances. Amidst the confusion of too many fake names, clues, ciphers, and convoluted alibis, Macdonald and his allies in the C.I.D. must unravel a truly tangled case.

A mystery in a Devon village where Chief Inspector Macdonald investigates the murder of Sister Monica, uncovering the hidden sins of the tight‑knit community.

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.

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.

> 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]