TBSL mysteries?

You guys have any favorites for mysteries? (besides the obvious Agatha Christie). I'm looking for old mysteries to add to the library.

I read a few Nicholas Blake mysteries in an anthology a while back; set in the 30's and they didn't take themselves very seriously--some dry humor to keep things moving. Can't remember the titles of all of them, but There's Trouble Brewing was one of them.

I would agree that all the Nicholas Blake mysteries from the 1930s and 1940s are excellent. They all feature Nigel Strangeways: https://www.librarything.com/series/Nigel+Strangeways+mysteries.

If you would like to read American mysteries of the 1930s with a focus on clues and detection (as opposed to tough guys), try Ellery Queen: https://www.librarything.com/series/Ellery+Queen.

And if you're good with reprints of 1920s and 1930s mysteries, British Library Crime Classics has brought back many good books: https://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/British+Library+Crime+Classics

Took me a moment to remember 2 women mystery authors I love:

Christianna Brand wrote English mysteries in the 1940s and 1950s. When I read Death in High Heels I was over the moon with delight. Her most famous mystery, I think is Green for Danger. Some feature recurring detectives but could be read in any order.

Helen McCloy, an American, wrote very intelligent, clever mysteries starting in the late 1930s, many of which featured Dr. Basil Willing, a psychologist. While reading in order would be preferable, it's not mandatory, and you might have trouble finding some.

Not on the Guardian list, but I would add:

Dorothy L. Sayers - sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, my favorite book: Murder Must Advertise

Ngaio Marsh - sleuth Roderick Alleyn, my favorite book: A Clutch of Constables

Edmund Crispin's books about Gervase Fen are good, very witty and with twisty, sometime absurd, plots.

And Gladys Mitchell's Mrs Bradley mysteries are excellent. Nothing like the TV adaptations! What I like is that she sets up the story and characters so that by the time the crime occurs and Mrs Bradley appears you really know and care about the victim and those around them.

speaking of Dorothy L. Sayers... here's an article in the New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/an-overlooked-novel-from-1935-by-th...

I have always wanted to try G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories. On The List TBR That Never Ends.

On my favorite mystery bookshelves:

Dorothy L. Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey
Josephine Tey
Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin
Hugh Pentecost - not sure he qualifies, he may have written in the '60s. Pierre Chambrun, hotel manager

These are not my favorites, but are in a collection I have of Golden Age mystery authors:
J. P. Marquand - Mr. Moto series
Francis and Richard Lockridge - The Norths

>6 rhinemaiden: I also enjoy Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter mysteries, though my favorite is The Nine Tailors. There was a series of television adaptions done in the 1970s with Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter. I always picture him when I read those mysteries.

>1 toast_and_tea: The list is too long to remember them all. Some that come to mind:

• the madcap mysteries of sisters Constance Little and Gwenyth Little (works all reprinted by the now-gone Rue Morgue Press)
• Phoebe Atwood Taylor's Asey Mayo and Leonidas Witherall series
• Todd Downing's Hugh Rennert series (reprinted by Coachwhip Publications)
• Rupert Penny's Inspector Beale series (reprinted by Ramble House)
• the mysteries of J. Jefferson Farjeon (several, including the Ben the Tramp series, reprinted variously)
• J. J. Connington's Sir Clinton Driffield mysteries (reprinted by Coachwhip)
• the many works by Edgar Wallace, though in general his are less mysteries than crime thrillers

I'm sure I'm leaving out some that I might include if I were making up the list on a different day.

>11 fuzzi: fuzzi: oh, yes! Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter was perfect casting! I recently watched Murder Must Advertise on youtube... and (just checked) Nine Tailors is there for viewing as well! Will watch later... change ringing, anyone?

>12 harrygbutler: Hi! Haven't spoken to you in a while. I changed my name, so you might not know me.

>13 rhinemaiden: from memory: Tin, tan, din, dan, bin, bam, bong, bo?