Books like Alive and dead by Elizabeth Ferrars

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.

Two young lovers, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, form a private detective agency and are hired to locate a missing woman named Jane Finn, whose disappearance threatens post‑war Britain.

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.

Walter Hartright, a drawing master, becomes entangled with Laura Fairlie, Sir Percival Glyde, and the scheming Count Fosco as questions of identity and madness intertwine in 19th‑century England.

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.

Myron Bolitar, a sports agent, is drawn into a murder investigation involving a young tennis star and her former fiancé.

An Irish bouncer in a New Jersey bar must solve a series of murders, including the killing of the girl he loves, with a quirky crew of misfits in this high‑energy detective adventure.

Perry Mason tackles a perplexing homicide in Los Angeles, where a frantic client and a mysterious lieutenant complicate the investigation.

Detective Hoke Moseley is assaulted after a grueling homicide investigation, leaving him with bruised wounds, a wired jaw, and missing dentures. He must piece together clues that lead to a hooker, an ex-con boyfriend, and a bizarre Hare Krishna pimp murder.

A murder in a ticking‑filled study triggers a puzzling hunt—three unseen visitors, a broken clock, and a dead man whose name remains elusive.

A slick Perry Mason mystery where a brash heiress seeks counsel over a will that threatens her inheritance if she marries early—only to find her own groom on trial after an uncle’s murder.

A missing‑person mystery in which baffling clues—an unopened milk bottle, smoke‑free ashes, swapped flowers—challenge a police investigation.

A gripping mystery story following teenage girls grappling with personal tragedy and the pursuit of justice in a small English town.

When Rachel Gairdner takes off for Australia to visit her brother Ian, she expects to enjoy a well-deserved holiday in that exotic land down under. But things don't appear to be going as planned. First, her brother fails to meet her at the airport as promised, and shortly after arriving at his house, Rachel discovers that Ian has disappeared. Then, later that weekend, she awakens to find a doctor hovering over her. It seems Rachel has attempted suicide--there's even a note in what looks like her handwriting at her bedside. Realizing that she was drugged, Rachel now fears that someone is trying to kill her. But who would want to murder a twenty-nine-year-old schoolteacher from Edinburgh? Could Ian, her only living relative, somehow be involved now that Rachel has recently received a surprisingly large inheritance from their aunt? And what of the hasty departure of the Constoupolises, the seemingly friendly Greek couple from whom Ian rented a room? And the sinister-looking character named Slattery, who's been snooping around ever since Rachel arrived--is he the key to brother Ian's disappearance or the attempt on her life? All Rachel knows is that her dream vacation has suddenly turned into a terrifying nightmare...and it's only a matter of time before her mystery assassin strikes again.

Nigel Cleaver vacationing at his brother’s estate discovers the bodies of his brother’s wife Annabel and her half‑sister Caroline. As family secrets unravel, the killers remain hidden until a stormy night reveals the truth.

*You called the police. That was the first thing to do. You did it at once...* Yet Matthew Tierney found himself sitting in a chair, staring at the strangled body of his wife; he was paralyzed by shock, unable to reach for the telephone on a nearby table. Perhaps it was this delay in calling the police that made him a prime suspect (an airtight alibi notwithstanding) or perhaps it was the substantial inheritance that his wife had recently come into--and that was now his. Tierney, however, has a few ideas of his own about who might have wrapped a cord neatly around his wife's throat. His investigation takes him to the lovely seaside resort where she had often vacationed, and where it seems that murder, too, is now on a holiday. For Tierney's prime suspect--his wife's lover--is found dead...and evidence again points a finger directly at Matthew Tierney...

Professor Charles Grimaud is challenged by a stranger who claims to have risen from his own coffin. When the stranger dies violently during a snowstorm, Dr. Gideon Fell investigates a killer who leaves no footprints.

In a crumbling border hotel, a young woman uncovers a sinister mystery involving inherited evil, a love affair, and the origins of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ while her mother, a diocesan exorcist, faces a looming snowstorm and a deadly threat.