I recently re-read The Seven Dials Mystery and Secret of Chimneys and loved how Agatha created that Wodehouse atmosphere.
What other mystery books are AC meets Wodehouse? I especially like the not modern day setting too.
I love Golden Age writers such as Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey but looking for romp feel
Some other similar books I’ve enjoyed:
The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer
Reluctant Widow by GH
I’ve found Heyer’s murder mysteries to be more bleak and less lighthearted than her regencies
Clara Benson – Angela Marchmont and Freddie P-S
AC’s Tommy and Tuppence series
Phryne Fisher
Contemporary- i loved the Thursday Murder Club
Just finished ‘Murder Magic and what we wore’
and really enjoyed that
Found Flavia de Luce average. Couldn’t get into the Colonel someone series (totally blanked on the time, but it’s very self- consciously present day writer setting a story in the past)
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Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters, female British archaeologist solves murders in England and Egypt in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann – the murder of a shepherd is solved by his flock of sheep
Jasper Fforde’s Nursery Crimes novels – based in a world inspired by nursery rhymes
Carola Dunn’s Daisy Dalrymple series – set in England in the 1920s. Dunn is also a writer of Heyeresque Regencies.
The Mrs Pargeter Mysteries by Simon Brett. Set in the 80s. Imagine if, after Danny Ocean (from Ocean 11)’d death, Julia Roberts retired and occasionally solved murders, helped by Danny’s gang. But set in 1980s England.