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Collins, Wilkie (2008) The Woman in White. (First published 1859) Oxford University Press This upper-class Victorian love story is certainly one of the greatest literary thrillers. For slow, delicious reading. More... 
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Wilkie Collins (2009) The Moonstone. (First published in 1868) CreateSpace Like no other, this classical masterpiece of a mystery novel captures 19th century characters and atmosphere. "The first and greatest of English detective novels." (T. S. Eliot) More... 
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Michael Innes (2008) Death At The President's Lodging. House of Stratus Inspector Appleby is called to St Anthony’s College, where the President has been murdered in his Lodging. Michael Innes is the pen-name of J.I.M. Steward, an eminent professor of English, who enjoys himself by placing a corpse carefully in the middle of an Oxbridge college and letting the readers entangle themselves in his web of plot twists. More... 
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Jacqueline Winspear (2004) Maisie Dobbs. Penguin Books Winspear's moving stroy of Maisie Dobbs may use an outdated female role-model, but her heroine's character and intellect has more substance and depths than can be found in most present-day literature for young adults. The story vividly recreates the period before and after WWI through the experience of a young, intelligent women, who in 1929 has become a private investigator. More...
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Ngaio Marsh (1999) Vintage Murder. (First published 1936) St. Martin's Minotaur This classical British murder mystery features Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard on vacation in New Zealand. Alleyn travels by train together with Carolyn Dacres, celebrated actress, and her theatrical company. When an after-performance celebration of the actors turns deadly the local small-town police is glad to have Inspector Alleyn at their help. More...
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Sheila Pim (2001) A Hive of Suspects: An Irish Village Mystery. Rue Morgue Press In the village of Drumclash, Ireland, Pim develops a most excentric plot, in which amateur apiarist Edward Gildea uncovers the truth of niggard beekeeper Jason Prendergast's death. A weird story. More...
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