Country-house mysteries

The remote country house with a hand-picked set of guests and a small staff of servants is often cited as the archetypical location for a GAD murder mystery. But how many country-house mysteries are there really? Here is an incomplete list compiled by GAD list members.

• Berkeley, Anthony - Dead Mrs Stratton aka Jumping Jenny
• Blake, Nicholas - Thou Shell of Death
• Carr, John Dickson aka Carter Dickson
• - Seeing is Believing
• - The Gilded Man
• - The Reader is Warned
• - The Unicorn Murders
• - The White Priory Murders
• Christie, Agatha - The Hollow
• Clevely, Hugh aka Tod Claymore - Nest of Vipers
• Cole, GDH and M
• - Burglars in Bucks
• - The Blatchington Tangle
• Connington, JJ
• - The Dangerfield Talisman
• - Tragedy at Ravensthorpe
• Hare, Cyril - An English Murder
• Innes, Michael
• - Hamlet, Revenge!
• - The Daffodil Affair
• - There Came Both Mist and Snow
• - What Happened at Hazelwood
• - The Long Farewell
• - The Bloody Wood
• - Appleby at Allington
• - Death at the Chase
• - The Open House
• - Appleby's Other Story
• - Appleby and the Ospreys
• Marsh, Ngaio
• - A Man Lay Dead
• - Death and the Dancing Footman
• - Tied Up in Tinsel
• - Photo Finish
• - Final Curtain
• Milne, AA - The Red House Mystery
• Mitchell, Gladys - Speedy Death
• Philmore, R - Journey Downstairs
• Queen, Ellery
• - The Finishing Stroke
• - The Siamese Twin Mystery
• Sayers, Dorothy L - Clouds of Witness
• Stout, Rex - The Second Confession
• Wentworth, Patricia - Spotlight