Love vintage crime. Need new blood

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I spent my teens and early 20s reading and re-reading Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, Arthur Upfield and find it hard to find equivalent quality in modern crime fiction.
I like Val McDermid, love Robert Galbraith and have read and enjoyed all the Lee Child and Peter Robinsons.
Are there any others I should consider?

In no particular order, you could take a look at:
Dorothy L Sayers
Edmund Crispin
Ann Cleeves
Minette Walters
JD Robb
Tess Gerritsen
SR Garrae
Kathy Reichs
Alex Gray
Ian Rankin
MC Beaton
LJ Ross
David Baldacci
If I think of any others, I'll come back. I'm not sure if any of these will appeal but you can always take a look at the "Look Inside" on Amazon to see.

Georgette Heyer's mysteries.
Janet Evanovich (rather slapstick)
Some Kelley Armstrong (Nadia Stafford)
Kerry Greenwood
Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver novels
Richard Castle
Ruth Dudley Edwards (puncturing so many social issues: brilliantly sardonic)

Forgot those earlier. Some are vintage, some are modern.

Some good suggestions on this thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/what_were_reading/4158174-Crime-series-recommendations?pg=1

Following a recommendation on there I'm now reading the Dana Stabenow Kate Shugak books and they're fab.

I agree with most of hiding's list, Ann Cleeves and Ian Rankin in particular are very good.

Have you read Ruth Rendell's Wexford series or PD James's Dalgliesh series?

There's also WJ Burley's Wycliffe series or Stephen Booth's Cooper & Fry books.

You could also try Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway novels. She writes the in present tense which puts some people off, and takes a little getting used to, but if you can stand this the stories are good.

Oh lovely lot of suggestions.
I have read all of Dorothy L Sayers and loved them.
Also Edmund Crispin, Tess Gerritson and Kathy Reichs. Got a bit bored of the latter two.
Found Ian Rankin depressing.
Read a couple of MC Beaton but thought them a bit lightweight.
Have read Ruth Rendell and PD James. Really went of Adam Dalgleish and co.
Will have a look at the others thank you so much for taking the time to post.

I assume you've read Agatha Christie?! (Not necessarily great writing, but definitely great crime fiction).

How about Reginald Hill, who is a hugely underrated writer, IMO? Some of the later books (the ones with Franny Roote) got a bit overblown, but his books are generally sharp and funny. As well as the Dalziel and Pascoe books, he has a series featuring Luton-based PI Joe Sixsmith, and a couple of standalone books.

Another series I love (although they're a bit marmite and I've never managed to introduce them to anyone else successfully, partly because the first book is nowhere near as good as the others) is the Bryant and May one by Christopher Fowler. The conceit is that B&M are essentially golden age detectives who were assigned to the secretive Peculiar Crimes Unit during WW2, and were subsequently forgotten about (you have to turn a blind eye to some of the chronology as they would be well over 100 by now). They investigate anything that is deemed too weird or "specialist" for the normal police force, and the forgotten bits of London history and geography that make it into the books are a delight.

Have you read Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie books?

Less famous golden age/post-war writers you might like:

John Dickson Carr (locked room mysteries, a bit gothic at times)
Michael Innes (urbane and often bizarre in the Edmund Crispin style)
Gladys Mitchell (Mrs Bradley is a brilliant character!)
Anthony Berkeley
Freeman Wills Croft (a bit too focused on the minutiae of railway timetables, iykwim)
R. Austin Freeman (very early forensic investigations - so early, in fact, that you can get bundles on Kindle for peanuts)
GK Chesterton (possibly a bit too mystical for some)
Josephine Tey

More recently, you could also look at Simon Brett, Colin Dexter or Faith Martin.

How about John Lawton? Mainly set from 1940s-60s. If you like Agatha Christie era stuff the Posie Parker series is reminiscent

How about some American Noir? Hammett, Woolrich and Goodis are good starting points. For louche British I’d always go to Derek Raymond - not many laughs, but excellent. If you found Rankin dull, try Stuart Macbride, gory, filthy and funny. Mick Herron’s Slow Horses series about a forgotten corner of the secret service is very good too. (And includes some funny not so veiled portraits of British politicians)

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow I read a bit o Mickey Spillane years ago and could barely understand a word! It was so the voice of that era in America. Fun.
I'll look up the others but I'm not really into gore.

Jk Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith the Cormoran Strike series.

Mark Billingham

Joy Ellis

Sara Paretsky

Josephine Tey, Georgette Heyer and the lesser known but highly entertaining Sarah Cauldwell en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Caudwell whose books are set in the 1980s are my top picks.

Jane Casey’s Maeve Kerrigan series, and Susie Steiner - both well written series about female police detectives.

You have very similar taste to me OP.
Google Curtis Evans. He has some good articles about Golden Age detective fiction.

lots here

I've recently really enjoyed Elizabeth Peters - 1950s/60s so quite vintage and not very popular but lots available on kindle. They are Miss Marple-ish but interestingly different and quite tricky to solve.

What about Elizabeth George? I love a good Elizabeth George. I found in similar vein to PD James. Big chunky books if I recall.

These are some of my slightly less well-known favourites.

ECR Lorac
Emma Latham
Sarah Caudwell
Victoria Blake
Laurie King (both the Sherlock Holmes and American series)
I second Elizabeth Peters and her alter ego Barbara Michaels
Jane Dentinger
Mary Stewart
Nancy Pickard
Jan Burke
Meg Gardiner
Robert Barnard
Simon Brett
Gwendoline Butler (really worth trying, she does atmosphere so well).
I’d add the inimitable Reginald Hill.

I like John Banville's series written as Benjamin Black.Set in Dublin in the 1950's they are well worth a read.

I'd second Josephine Tey. Also Georges Simenon's Maigret books. And I love Nicholas Blake which was the pen name of Cecil Day Lewis. He apparently wrote some mysteries to earn a bit as poetry wasn't so lucrative. I've never understood why they aren't that well known.

Tana French
Susie Steiner's Manon Bradshaw series

I don't think anyone has mentioned TP Fielden yet - he writes the Miss Dimont series, starting with The Riviera Express. love old crime writers such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers and the Dimont series is much in the same vein but being written at the moment. Gist is newspaper reporter solving crime in a seaside town just after WW2. I've really been enjoying the series.

Another vote for Josephine Tey, plus there's a newish series that features Tey as a character, solving mysteries, might be interesting.
Susan Hill's another good writer that's not been mentioned

I suppose 80s is vintage now - I liked Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore mysteries. Jill Paton Walsh's Imogen Quy stories are good (and her Sayers sequels are excellent).

Elly Griffiths (of Ruth Galloway fame) has done a series set in Brighton showbiz in the 50s that are pretty good, although not a patch on Ruth G.

Nara2k
The Josephine Tey series is written by Nicola Upson
very good

Jacqueline Winspear writes about an investigator in 1920s and 1930s. Maisie Dobbs

I agree that Elizabeth George is excellent, I found some of her beers very moving.

Dorothy L Sayers is my favourite from the Golden Age and I am also listening to Agatha Christie’s catalogue.