Books like Legacy of Death by R. A. J. Walling

When novelist Owen Quine disappears, private detective Cormoran Strike is hired to find him, only to uncover a deadly plot tied to Quine’s controversial manuscript that could destroy many lives.

20s Young Woman’s Adventures in Old Edinburgh

Nicholas Meyer’s Sherlock Holmes pastiche, The Seven‑Per‑Cent Solution, imagines a collaboration between Holmes and Sigmund Freud while exploring Holmes’s cocaine addiction, Moriarty’s identity, and a diabolic conspiracy that threatens millions.

In a tense Victorian London, Inspector William Monk investigates a brutal murder of an aristocratic girl, aided by former nurse Hester Latterly as he navigates a web of amnesia and political intrigue.

A 19th‑century English detective tale that intertwines mystery, romance and social customs of the era.

A series of murder mysteries by Agatha Christie featuring the detective Hercule Poirot.

In the quiet setting of a nursing home, a dissatisfied housewife faces her own hidden past while caring for a dying patient who may have murdered her lover's husband.

Lydia Summers confronts a family curse at Holly Green Manor when her cousin James becomes the new heir, hoping the deadly legacy ends while he faces a lethal vendetta.

Lady Katharine is trapped between two impossible choices. Either she will marry the cousin she despises, or marry Philip, to whom she was pledged in childhood. The prospect of staying at her family estate with her uncle and cousin is so unfavorable that she chooses Philip to avoid an immediate attachment to her cousin. Suddenly, the accidental deaths of her traveling companions offer her the chance she has awaited. With no one left alive to vouch for her identity, she hatches a brilliant plan to exchange identities with her lady's maid, who was killed in the accident. But when the impersonation fools Philip, formerly her betrothed, she learns that it might have been a terrible mistake. Lady Katherine soon finds herself like a spider caught in her own web. When she is discovered in her lie, she must confess all, with disastrous results that leave her to wonder if she'll ever regain Philip's trust.

Child psychologist Mina Pearce wrestles with a heatwave and an upcoming marriage while attending a bereavement group. When a grieving journalist asks her to investigate a 13‑year‑old girl's alleged haunting, she trades her cautious research for a chance to gain experience in a remote village steeped in superstition.