Books like Murder by matchlight by E. C. R. Lorac

When Britain is under Nazi occupation, Detective Inspector Archer of Scotland Yard investigates a murder while SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives with Hermann Himmler's instructions, forcing the detective into an espionage conflict within the city's shadowy underworld.

A thrilling tale of cryptanalysis and espionage set against the backdrop of World War II, featuring a brilliant mathematician and his love interest as they race against time to crack the Enigma code used by German U-boats.

At a tennis party in Thornden, the solicitor Sampson Warrenby is found shot, and his niece Mavis discovers the body. Chief Inspector Hemingway must sift through ten villagers, each with a motive, to unmask the killer.

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.

Inspector Alan Grant investigates a mysterious murder on a night train to London, where a dying man's unfinished poem—about talking beasts and singing sands—clues him to a hidden conspiracy.

In 1940, British engineer Graham is dispatched to Turkey to work on a naval project, only to become a target of hostile forces intent on eliminating him.

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

Inspector Joseph French tackles a diamond mastermind as he follows a trail from London to South America in this gripping detective mystery.

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.

*‘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.

> 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]