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Golden Age Books
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Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.82 — 63,025 ratings — published 1923
Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)
by (shelved 17 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.13 — 34,268 ratings — published 1930
Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.97 — 26,252 ratings — published 1926
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
by (shelved 15 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.26 — 366,907 ratings — published 1926
Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,861 ratings — published 1935
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
by (shelved 14 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.04 — 18,938 ratings — published 1928
Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.06 — 30,650 ratings — published 1927
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.00 — 529,154 ratings — published 1920
A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.79 — 17,408 ratings — published 1934
Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
by (shelved 12 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.94 — 65,066 ratings — published 1933
Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)
by (shelved 12 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.86 — 69,187 ratings — published 1935
The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)
by (shelved 12 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.76 — 15,166 ratings — published 1931
The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)
by (shelved 12 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.02 — 21,909 ratings — published 1934
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.04 — 221,032 ratings — published 1930
Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
by (shelved 12 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.10 — 18,233 ratings — published 1932
The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.86 — 125,144 ratings — published 1923
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 11 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.03 — 211,588 ratings — published 1936
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 11 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.12 — 319,335 ratings — published 1937
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 11 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.20 — 760,193 ratings — published 1934
Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
by (shelved 11 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.87 — 71,950 ratings — published 1938
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
by (shelved 11 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.96 — 75,939 ratings — published 1936
The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,934 ratings — published 1929
Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
by (shelved 11 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,887 ratings — published 1935
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
by (shelved 11 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.98 — 112,013 ratings — published 1938
Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)
by (shelved 10 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.84 — 51,550 ratings — published 1935
The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.59 — 9,987 ratings — published 1929
Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
by (shelved 10 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,316 ratings — published 1933
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.81 — 133,784 ratings — published 1942
Mystery in White (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.37 — 6,167 ratings — published 1937
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,686,703 ratings — published 1939
Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
by (shelved 10 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.24 — 22,261 ratings — published 1937
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #22)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.78 — 46,894 ratings — published 1940
The Secret of High Eldersham (Desmond Merrion, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.61 — 989 ratings — published 1930
Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #21)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.94 — 49,338 ratings — published 1940
The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,810 ratings — published 1935
The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.88 — 87,863 ratings — published 1928
By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.76 — 26,612 ratings — published 1968
The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.85 — 60,767 ratings — published 1942
The Santa Klaus Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.40 — 4,010 ratings — published 1936
Thirteen Guests (Inspector Kendall #1)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,798 ratings — published 1936
Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.94 — 73,223 ratings — published 1936
The Red House Mystery (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.68 — 15,553 ratings — published 1922
Mystery Mile (Albert Campion Mystery, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,940 ratings — published 1930
A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,650 ratings — published 1936
The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,002 ratings — published 1925
Lord Peter Views the Body (Lord Peter Wimsey #4)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.13 — 16,027 ratings — published 1928
Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)
by (shelved 9 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,019 ratings — published 1940
Weekend at Thrackley (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.67 — 858 ratings — published 1934
Fire in the Thatch (Robert Macdonald #27)
by (shelved 8 times as golden-age)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,423 ratings — published 1946
Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as golden-age)
avg rating 3.78 — 25,807 ratings — published 1929
“The men and women of the Golden Age, Hesiod wrote, lived in an eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed on acorns from a great oak, on wild fruits, on honey. In the Silver Age, which is less written about, the people lived for 100 years as children, without growing up, and then quite suddenly aged and died. The Fabians and the social scientists, writers and teachers saw, in a way earlier generations had not, that children were people, with identities and desires and intelligences. They saw that they were neither dolls, nor toys, nor miniature adults. They saw, many of them, that children needed freedom, needed not only to learn, and be good, but to play and be wild. But they saw this, so many of them, out of a desire of their own for a perpetual childhood, a Silver Age.”
― The Children's Book
― The Children's Book
“Cleopatra earned a second back-handed tribute: In her wake, a golden age of women dawned in Rome. High-born wives and sisters suddenly enjoyed a role in public life. They interceded with ambassadors, counseled husbands, traveled abroad, commissioned temples and sculptures. They become more visible in art and in society. They joined Cleopatra in the Forum. No Roman would ever attain the exalted status or enjoy the unprecedented privileges granted Livia and Octavia, which they owed to a foreigner, to whom they served as counterweight. Livia compiled a fat portfolio of properties, one that would include lands in Egypt and palm groves in Judea. Octavia would go down in history as the un-Cleopatra, supremely modest, prudent, and pious.”
― Cleopatra: A Life
― Cleopatra: A Life
