Books like Death of an Author by E. C. R. Lorac
First publish date: 2023
Authors: E. C. R. Lorac
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 (0 community ratings)
How are these books recommended?
The books recommended for Death of an Author by E. C. R. Lorac are shaped by reader interaction. Votes on how closely books relate, user ratings, and community comments all help refine these recommendations and highlight books readers genuinely find similar in theme, ideas, and overall reading experience.
Have you read any of these books?
Your votes, ratings, and comments help improve recommendations and make it easier
for other readers to discover books they’ll enjoy.
Books similar to Death of an Author (11 similar books)
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.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A fog‑shrouded crime at Paddington Station throws five strangers into a web of murders and secrets, with Inspector MacDonald tracking suspects through post‑war London.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A coming‑of‑age tale that follows teenage girls as they form bonds over shared love for books in a library setting, weaving in themes of friendship, English literature, and the lives of widowers.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
*‘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.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
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.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Sir Eustace is a cad of the first water, with a specialty in other men's wives, and the list of people who might want to do him in could fill a London phone book. But which of them actually sent the chocolates with their nasty hidden payload? Scotland Yard is baffled. Enter the Crime Circle, a group of society intellectuals with a shared conviction in their ability to succeed where the police have failed. Eventually, each member will produce a tightly reasoned solution to the Case of the Poisoned Chocolates, but each of those solutions will identify a different murderer. First published in 1929, this is both a classic of the golden age of mystery fiction, and one of the great puzzle-mysteries of all time.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Forty-fifth in the long-running mystery series with Dr Launcelot Priestley.
> The author, whose mysterious death is investigated in this book, was a certain Mr. Nigel Ebbfleet, who after years of writing without success produced a “best seller” and then astonished his publisher by announcing that he had quite decided never to write another line and was retiring to a country cottage to live a quiet life. His subsequent murder might lead some readers to suspect the publisher; but Jimmy Waghorn and Dr. Priestley, proof against such hasty assumptions, reached a very curious conclusion.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Some Other Similar Books
Murder in the Mirror by Gladys MitchellThe Corpse in the Garden by Georgette Heyer
The Silent Shore by Helen MacInnes
Death on the High Road by John Rhode
The Golden Age of Detective Fiction by Martin Edwards
Death in the Arts by Anthony Wynne
The Black House by Peter May
The Last Guilty Man by Margery Allingham
A Case of Murder by Freeman Wills Crofts
Have a similar book in mind? Let others know!
Please login to submit books!