I need some new Murder/Mystery books to ready got any sugestions?

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Anything by Rex Stout and Ngaio Marsh Rex Stout and Ngaio Marsh are my two favorite authors. I first read their mysteries back in college, and over the years I’ve collected their books until now I have a full set of each. I wish they were alive and still writing!

The two wrote very different sorts of books, so I hope one or the other will appeal to you. I enjoy switching back and forth between them. Currently I’m reading a Rex Stout (Too Many Women) and listening to a Ngaio Marsh on CD (Death at the Bar).(I’ve read all of them many times.) Rex Stout wrote 47 books featuring detective Nero Wolfe.

The books are told from the first-person viewpoint of Wolfe’s assistant, Archie Goodwin.(Two of my cats are named Nero and Archie. ) The books were written beginning in the 1930s and continuing until Stout’s death in the 70s; they are always set in the current day, and the main characters remain the same age. The stories are a little on the hard-boiled side, but they aren’t anything like noir; they’re frequently humorous and always exciting.

Nero Wolfe is a 286-pound, orchid-loving, reclusive genius who almost never leaves his house. Hs personal gourmet chef is Fritz Brenner, and the live-in babysitter for his 10,000 orchid plants is Theodore Horstmann. Woven in with the mysteries are details of the often tense but symbiotic relationship between Wolfe and Archie, Wolfe’s adversarial alliance with police detective Cramer, and his obsession with good food and beautiful orchids.

Wolfe would love to sit home and read, eat, and tend his orchids all day, but Archie is there to prod him into action and do all the legwork to solve the incredible variety of cases they encounter. A number of the Nero Wolfe mysteries were filmed for an all-too-short-lived TV series on A&E, starring Maury Chaykin and Timothy Hutton. A few of my favorites are And Be a Villain, Too Many Women, Some Buried Caesar, and The Silent Speaker.

You can start with any of Stout’s books and be right at home, because he always briefly re-introduces the characters and settings, and their basic characteristics are the same throughout the series. Ngaio Marsh’s 32 mystery novels, written from 1932-1982, feature a Scotland Yard detective named Roderick Alleyn. These are old-school British mysteries in the Agatha Christie style -- only much, much better written than Christie’s.

Alleyn and his assistant, detective Fox, work in London and at various British locales to solve murders of every variety. A number of the books are set in New Zealand, Marsh’s homeland. The Alleyn mysteries are beautifully crafted, with elegant wording and artistically written descriptions of landscapes and people.

Several of the books take place in and around the theater, and her portrayals of backstage life and the actors are really wonderful. Every one of the books contains an element of romance, in addition to the mystery. Alleyn ages, and his life progresses; three of the books trace his courtship and marriage to artist Agatha Troy, and later books include his son.(One of my dogs is named Troy.

) My favorites are written earlier in the series. They include Night at the Vulcan and Enter a Murderer (both written in the 1930s and set in the theater), Death in a White Tie, and Artists in Crime (which introduces Troy). With this series you’d do best to start at the beginning, because of the development of the characters over the years.

(The first few books feature a sort of Watson-like character named Nigel Bathgate, but mercifully Marsh gave him up. ) A few very unsatisfactory Alleyn episodes were filmed for the PBS series Mystery. For some reason they chose to mess with both the story lines and the characters, and I do not recommend them.

Perhaps you can tell that you’ve asked me about one of my favorite topics and let me talk about two of my favorite writers in the world! I hope you’ll give them a try, and I hope that you’ll enjoy their books as much as I do. :-) Sources: Cited in my answer, and LOTS of personal reading experience taylor928's Recommendations Some Buried Caesar Amazon List Price: $6.50 Used from: $0.83 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 13 reviews) The Silent Speaker (Crime Line) Amazon List Price: $6.50 Used from: $0.01 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 10 reviews) And Be a Villain (Crime Line) (Crime Line) Amazon List Price: $6.50 Used from: $0.01 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 17 reviews) Enter A Murderer (A Roderick Alleyn Mystery) Amazon List Price: $5.99 Used from: $1.87 Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 3 reviews) Night at the Vulcan (A Roderick Alleyn Mystery) Amazon List Price: $5.99 Used from: $2-19828 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 4 reviews) Death at the Bar (A Roderick Alleyn Mystery) Amazon List Price: $5.99 Used from: $0.01 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 3 reviews) Death in Ecstasy (A Roderick Alleyn Mystery) Amazon List Price: $5.50 Used from: $0.02 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 3 reviews) .

Older book from 2003, "Tropic of Night" by Martin Cruz Smith. Interesting African wicth/tribal influence set in Miami.

My favorites are Lucas Davenport Mysteries..all of the PREY books by John Sanford & Any of the books by Faye Kellerman I also just read PERFUME. It was written in the 80's and its out of print, but its one freaky mystery with a twist.

So many authors, so little time, how about PD James or Elizabeth George for English authors, Elizabeth Peters. James and George are English authors and some of their books have been made into PBS mysteries. Elizabeth Peters writes about a woman archeologist during the excavations of the Egyptian pyramids.

Tony llerman is great and writes about Navajo Indians. It really depends on what interests you, there are bound to be mysteries written about them.

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"Into this world arrives Chabon's Chandler-ready hero, Meyer Landsman, a drunken rogue cop who wakes in a flophouse to find that one of his neighbors has been murdered. With his half-Tlingit, half-Jewish partner and his sexy-tough boss, who happens also to be his ex-wife, Landsman investigates a fascinating underworld of Orthodox black-hat gangs and crime-lord rabbis." 67alecto's Recommendations The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel Amazon List Price: $26.95 Used from: $16.15 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 134 reviews) .

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I love mystery/thriller books, the kind you can't put down. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I was looking for a series of romance/mystery books that had different quilts framing the cover of the books. From 80's.

I'm trying to find mystery books by Judith Rosenblum (?sp).

Who is the author of a series of murder books with drinks in the title.

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