Country House Mysteries: From Agatha Christie to Modern Manor House Whodunits 🏰

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⛲ What would you do if you received an invitation to a weekend at a grand estate? Accept? Or, if you’re a mystery reader, you might check the guest list for someone with murderous intentions before you RSVP.

🏛️ Join me as I look at why this setting has worked for more than a century, how it differs from a village mystery, a locked room, and a closed circle, and which books to try first.

📚 I’ll walk through Golden Age country houses, downstairs detectives, modern country house mysteries that still play fair, and a few of my own 1920s house-party mysteries.

📥 Download the printable reading list: Country House Mysteries with a Downton Abbey Flavor (PDF).

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• S6E3 Constance and Gwenyth Little
• S6E5 Georgette Heyer
• S6E6 Dorothy L. Sayers
• S4E3 The Three Dahlias by Katie Watson
• S3E3 Murder at Mallowan Hall by Colleen Cambridge
• S1E6 Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen

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Download: Country House Mysteries: From Agatha Christie to Modern Manor House Whodunits (reading list PDF)

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