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Mystery

8 books about Madeira tagged “mystery”.

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Fiction & Literature

With selection notes

Tango in Madeira

Jim Williams

English · 2013 edition

Set in Madeira after WWI, a disillusioned ex-soldier tries to rescue his family’s failing wine business as the island fills with real figures of the era — an exiled emperor, Agatha Christie at Reid’s Hotel, George Bernard Shaw learning to tango — and a murder draws him in.

Cover of Past Caring

Fiction & Literature

With selection notes

Past Caring

Robert Goddard

English · 2008 edition

Robert Goddard’s bestselling debut. At a lush villa on Madeira, a disgraced historian is hired to investigate the mysterious 1910 downfall of a former British cabinet minister — a quest that uncovers secrets and deaths still haunting a family.

Cover of The Hanging Garden

Fiction & Literature

With selection notes

The Hanging Garden

John Sherwood

English · 1992 edition

Botanist-sleuth Celia Grant flies to Madeira to settle her dead niece’s estate, and small anomalies draw her into a web of suspicious characters, missing children, stolen orchids and blackmail.

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Fiction & Literature

A Handful of Shadows

Jennifer Hyde

English · 2018 edition

A romantic thriller set on Madeira, in which a woman in crisis visits her step-mother on the island seeking answers and becomes entangled with intriguing characters — written by Marjorie Eccles as Jennifer Hyde.

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Fiction & Literature

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Skeleton Staff

Elizabeth Ferrars

English · 2014 edition

Wealthy, disabled Roberta Ellison settles on Madeira; when she is suddenly widowed, her half-sister arrives to help but brings problems that escalate into violence and murder. A classic British mystery reissued by The Murder Room.

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Fiction & Literature

Witness Before the Fact

Elizabeth Ferrars

English · 2014 edition

On Madeira, Alec Methven is found dead, his last meal apparently shared with someone anxious to conceal the fact — and a second death follows. A classic mystery by an author who loved the island.

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Fiction & Literature

Breath of Suspicion

Elizabeth Ferrars

English · 2014 edition

A Superintendent Ditteridge mystery whose trail leads to Madeira, where a man living comfortably as Gavin Chilmark hopes to remain free from any breath of suspicion. Reissued by The Murder Room.

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Fiction & Literature

The Glass of Time

Michael Cox

English · 2009 edition

A gothic sequel to The Meaning of Night, in which orphan Esperanza Gorst goes undercover as a lady’s maid — and her own origins trace back to Funchal, Madeira, where part of the narrative is set.

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