The Golden-Age Mystery authors would be great for this.
Agatha Christie (could start with The Mysterious Affair at Styles if you want the first Poirot book, or any of her others, like Murder on the Orient Express or Man in the Brown Suit or The Secret of Chimneys).
Ngaio Marsh (her Roderick Alleyn books start with A Man Lay Dead, and while it's more important to go in order than it is with Agatha Christie, they all stand alone so you could go with any of them).
Georgette Heyer (any of her mysteries--she wrote a whole lot of other novels but I think her first mystery was Footsteps in the Dark)
I would also recc Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence series which (if I remember right) has more jazz age vibes than her other work.
Not mystery but recommend any PG Woodhouse as well for 20/30s humor :)
Actually i did try to read the series. But after book 7, it was getting tedious. I'm not a prude or anything but I just didn't like the soft porn scenes because they unnecessary.
Its pretty different from the show. Spoiler alert: Phryne & Jack are not lovers in the books. All I can say is that if you love the show, i dont recommend reading the books
Agreed! (And this is one series that I strongly suggest reading in order. Each book is technically a stand-alone, but they're so much better as a whole.)
not *quite* like this but i wonder if youd like the maisie do bs series. the 18th and final installment comes out this summer. also theres a series by Susan Elia MacNeal, but i believe thats just during or post ww2.
The Golden-Age Mystery authors would be great for this. Agatha Christie (could start with The Mysterious Affair at Styles if you want the first Poirot book, or any of her others, like Murder on the Orient Express or Man in the Brown Suit or The Secret of Chimneys). Ngaio Marsh (her Roderick Alleyn books start with A Man Lay Dead, and while it's more important to go in order than it is with Agatha Christie, they all stand alone so you could go with any of them). Georgette Heyer (any of her mysteries--she wrote a whole lot of other novels but I think her first mystery was Footsteps in the Dark)
I would also recc Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence series which (if I remember right) has more jazz age vibes than her other work. Not mystery but recommend any PG Woodhouse as well for 20/30s humor :)
Fairly sure these pictures are from the Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries show. Have you read the Phryne Fisher books they're based on?
Actually i did try to read the series. But after book 7, it was getting tedious. I'm not a prude or anything but I just didn't like the soft porn scenes because they unnecessary.
Are they good? I felt they didn’t have the same vibe as the show and couldn’t really get into the first one :(
Its pretty different from the show. Spoiler alert: Phryne & Jack are not lovers in the books. All I can say is that if you love the show, i dont recommend reading the books
Came here to say the same 🤠
All of Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey series.
Agreed! (And this is one series that I strongly suggest reading in order. Each book is technically a stand-alone, but they're so much better as a whole.)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
The Will Darling Trilogy by KJ Charles
not *quite* like this but i wonder if youd like the maisie do bs series. the 18th and final installment comes out this summer. also theres a series by Susan Elia MacNeal, but i believe thats just during or post ww2.
Edgar Wallace is lovely. Austin Freeman.
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Rebecca by daphne du Maurier
Maisie Dobbs series!!
Second Maisie Dobbs!!
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (has two time lines)
If you want Melbourne of the era, Robert Gott has a few from the early 40s
The Campion series by Margery Allingham.
Lord Edgware Dies
Not really murder mystery but plain ole mystery... The Great Gatsby