Clean, Well-written Mysteries

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Rebecca
By Daphne Du Maurier
F DU MAURIER
A classic novel of romantic suspense finds the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter entering the home of her mysterious and enigmatic new husband and learning the story of the house’s first mistress, to whom the sinister housekeeper is unnaturally devoted.

Cater Street Hangman
By Anne Perry
MYSTERY PERRY
Careless of both murder and manners, two determinedly unconventional young sisters ignore Victorian mores and actively join the police investigation into the murder of their servant girl.

No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
By Alexander McCall-Smith
MYSTERY MCCALL SMITH
Working in Gaborone, Botswana, sleuth Precious Romatswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week.

Come to Grief
By Dick Francis
MYSTERY FRANCIS
After a tragic suicide disrupts the trial of a much-loved racing figure accused of corruption – a case in which he was to testify – conscience-stricken jockey-turned-sleuth Sid Halley returns to investigate this much too convenient death.

Conspiracy of Paper
By David Liss
F LISS
An outsider in eighteenth-century London, Jewish pugilist and hired thug Benjamin Weaver prowls the city’s mean streets in the service of England’s gentry tracking down debtors and thieves.