Books like Neck in a noose by Elizabeth Ferrars

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lord Peter Wimsey investigates a seemingly natural death at Armistice Day that turns puzzling when inheritance questions surface, uncovering troubling revelations at the Bellona Club.

Lord Peter Wimsey is drawn into the mysteries of a disinterred corpse, uncovering a century‑old crime that reverberates through a quiet East Anglian village.

A detective in semiretirement finds herself assigned to lead the Literary Detectives, only to be replaced by a new chief librarian, leaving her to deal with the consequences of her past actions.

Dorothy L. Sayers introduces Lord Peter Wimsey and the aspiring detective Harriet Vane in this classic detective mystery, where a courtroom accusation sparks an unlikely romance.

Martha Crayle takes in a young woman seeking help from the National Guild for Unmarried Mothers, only to find a stranger turned husband whose presence unravels a web of deceit that threatens her life.

Nick and Nora Charles navigate a New York murder mystery with wit and charm, turning a hard‑boiled investigation into a sophisticated comedy of manners.

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.

In eighteenth‑century London, Jewish ex‑boxer Benjamin Weaver is hired to track debtors and thieves. When his estranged father's mysterious death links him to the nascent stock market, Weaver confronts a cabal of financiers, a desperate prostitute, and his own heritage.

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.

Holly Dunthorne returns to her childhood village to find an old friend accused of assaulting an elderly resident and later a murder, leaving her to confront how much the community—and she herself—has changed.

A gripping tale of mystery and intrigue, following the pursuit of justice by a private investigator who uncovered the truth behind two murders.

Globally acclaimed general’s memoir ghostwriter Sara Marriott becomes a silent witness to a puzzling series of murders in a quiet town, when an answered phone delivers a chilling warning that turns a simple assignment into a deadly investigation.

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...

A chilling psychological thriller about two women caught in the grip of a series of gruesome murders in Yorkshire.

Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigates a mysterious murder in the Yorkshire Dales, while Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, once a lover, comes to help and uncover the darker aspects of his family's past.

When Lionel Townsend, a biographer, is implicated in his aunt's poisoning while an unsuspecting publisher is found hanged, Sergeant Beef unravels both mysteries, proving that even the most unlikely clues can converge.