Books like There's trouble brewing by Nicholas Blake

Hard‑boiled detective Sam Spade races to recover a priceless, gem‑encrusted statuette while double‑crosses and danger creep from every corner.

In wartime Britain, a secret‑service hero returns to the Ministry of Morale, where the beautiful Nita Prince drinks poison from a coffee cup amid a tangled affair with her lover, the director, and his brother‑in‑law.

Legendary WWI ace Fergus O’Brien faces a cruel prophecy when letters predict his murder on Boxing Day, prompting a festive trap that ends in his death and a detective’s race to solve the crime amid smoldering attraction.

A new holiday camp in Wonderland is terrorised by the self‑proclaimed ‘Mad Hatter’, and private detective Nigel Strangeways is hired to uncover the culprit behind the cruel practical jokes.

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.

Frank Cairnes, a popular detective novelist, turns his investigative skills to a personal tragedy: hunting the runaway driver who killed his son Martin.

Piper Williams is used to being the only woman in a room full of men, but she isn't used to being attracted to one of those men. Determined to prove herself as a master brewer, she's working harder than ever to perfect her brews and ignore the chemistry she has with Blake Reed, owner of Minnesota's newest gastropub. Piper knows the tight-knit, testosterone-filled brewer community will assume the worst if she starts anything with her only vendor. No way she'd risk her budding business on a guy, no matter how charming, right? Blake has a conflict of his own - his haught family wants him to ditch the pub and support his father's political campaign. Well, that and the fact that Piper's snark and sass is his perfect blend of crisp and refreshing. So they make a pact: she'll go out with him if, and only if, two other pubs stock her beer. But sticking to the pact proves harder than expected... Then Piper gets a once-in-a-lifetime offer that could launch her company to the next level, but take her away from Blake. Are she and Blake just drunk in love, or do they have something worth changing the recipe for?

In the quiet village of Prior's Umborne, a series of poison-pen letters stirs suspicion. Nigel Strangeways is called upon to uncover the culprit before more harm occurs, amid secrets and a mysterious death at the dreadful hollow.

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.

At Sudeley Hall, a Sports Day tragedy triggers a murder investigation led by Nigel Strangeways, whose uncle is Scotland Yard’s Assistant Commissioner.

A headless body drifts into the Thames near England's celebrated poet, and Detective Nigel Strangeways must untangle a web of family secrets, artistic rivalries and hidden motives to reveal the murderer.