Books like No Friendly Drop by Henry Wade

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.

New York bibliophile Henry Gamadge joins a Maine investigation when several children are found poisoned with deadly nightshade.

When a man is murdered at a London hotel, he discovers a crimson "Z" token that leads him across England in pursuit of a serial killer.

A Golden Age mystery set in a Great Britain manor house where a family patriarch is murdered on Christmas Day by a mysterious Santa Claus, and each suspect provides a written statement to help an investigator uncover the truth.

In this classic Golden Age mystery, the murder of Miss Pongleton in the Northern Line’s Belsize Park station sets a group of Frampton Hotel residents, including a terrier, on a hunt for the killer.

Three boys—Gordon, Paolo, and Tim—embark on a series of humorous adventures that keep them constantly in trouble and tricky situations.

In the Golden Age mystery "Death has a Will", lawyer‑sleuth Stephen Carter and his brother Jefferson navigate a web of intrigue, a cryptic will, a traumatized heir, and a sudden murder.

Travis McGee #19

In 1950s Glasgow, a mother‑and‑daughter murder case forces a man to confront the truth about the man who could prove or destroy his innocence.

When Gregory Wynter is killed in his dressing room with no apparent motive, his brother Austin hires the brother‑sister detective duo Christopher and Vivienne Perrins to unravel an impossible murder involving poisoned chocolates and hidden family secrets.

A sudden crash of a perfectly sound aircraft raises suspicion. A Bishop and a Scotland Yard inspector unravel a possible murder or suicide hidden behind an aviator’s death in the English countryside.

A financier is shot dead inside the House of Commons, and a young parliamentary private secretary, summoned by the victim’s daughter, turns investigator in a tale of political intrigue, betrayal, and danger within Britain’s government.

A 1930s Golden Age mystery about Mr. and Mrs. Storm, a painter and a writer who seek isolation in a country cottage, only to be accused of murder and drawn into a perilous chain of events.

In fashionable Maryland near Washington, a Vermont spinster acquires a grand estate that quickly becomes the site of a fiery murder. Mystery unfolds as she and her family unravel the crime, avoiding common Golden Age tropes.

A mystery at Stowe House where a guest is killed by a dart, leading to a hunt for the killer among the wealthy and the exotic.

In the dead‑hour garden of a country estate, Jacklin Bogart discovers her cousin’s murder. As police and family secrets unravel, multiple fatal histories of the Crandall clan surface, turning a simple inquiry into a tangled web of truth and rumor.

Aunt Mildred lives in the Welsh countryside, and her nephew Edward loathes it. Edward decides to murder her, and the novel follows the murder investigation.

> Charles Rathlyn has everything - a benefactress, a rich wife, and a comfortable country life. While riding to the hounds one day he takes a terrible spill, and, on reviving, finds himself looking into a pair of beautiful brown eyes. He knows he has fallen again - in love. But are these falls, and those soft brown eyes, linked to yet another fall - the fatal plunge which the unloved Mrs. Rathlyn takes over the banister to the parquet floor below? >"Chief Constable Col. John Netterly is a reliable detective in the best British tradition; and the novel culminates in one of the most effective whipsnap endings of recent years."-Anthony Boucher, The New York Times >"One of those expert British suspense jobs, the story moves suavely on two levels; a seemingly slow-paced tale set in hunting country, it crackles with under-currents of blackmail, violent passion and murder. Topnotch in its class, it has the season's best double-whammy etching."-Time

A sinister Christmas party in Hampstead turns into a murder mystery when a violent death shocks the gathering. Stockbroker sleuth Malcolm Warren must sift through friends and relatives to uncover the killer.

> **A fancy dress ball is in full swing when in the tumult of the revelry, Sir Ralph Feltham is found dead..**. >The British Secret Service agents, working to uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and catch its mysterious mastermind, "The Spider," find themselves at the country residence, Feltham Abbey, where the ball is in full swing. >When Sir Ralph Feltham is found dead, Tony, a bewildered young lawyer, sets out to make sense of the night's activities and the motives of the other guests. Among them is Hilary, an independently minded socialite still in her costume of vivid silk pyjamas and accompanying teddy bear...

A high sheriff of Buckinghamshire faces a secret blackmailer during the Autumn Assizes, forcing him to confront his own cowardice and the looming threat of murder.

In the bustling 1930s Grosvenor Theatre, an opening night turns deadly when lead actor Brandon Baker is shot, followed by another fatality—an Inspector Wilson of Scotland Yard and his reporter son lead a mystery that defies the initial suicide theory.