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?

ViperAtTheGatesOfDawn

Someone else who likes Dana Stabenow! Kate Shugak is one of my favourite protagonists and I find the descriptions of life in Alaska so interesting.

I am even watching homesteading programmes on Alaska now, it’s fascinating indeed.

British library crime classics are great. 1950/60s crime which is a little twee but hugely enjoyable

Ellis Peters’ Cadfael novels are well-known, but I prefer her George Felse series. I suppose the 70s is vintage by now!

If you can find AJ Orde’s Jason Lynx novels, they’re excellent. AJ Orde was one of Sherri Tepoer’s pen names. i don’t think I’ve ever read the last in this series and I’m a bit haunted by the mystery that wasn’t solved.

John Mslcolm’s books about a rugger bugger banker and antique expert are fun. They always have lots of detail about art and antiques. A bit reminiscent of the Lovejoy books, but with less leering.

I like DM Greenwood’s Theodora Braithwaite ecclesiastical mysteries. Sort of Barbara Pym with a murder.

And the British Library is republishing some obscure and out-of-print crime.
shop.bl.uk/collections/crime-classics

I didn't know about AJ Orde but I love Sheri Tepper's SF - I shall go and look right now! Thank you.

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ViperAtTheGatesOfDawn

Someone else who likes Dana Stabenow! Kate Shugak is one of my favourite protagonists and I find the descriptions of life in Alaska so interesting.

I am even watching homesteading programmes on Alaska now, it’s fascinating indeed.

I am really loving the descriptions of Alaskan life, truly fascinating.

Andrew Taylor's Lydmouth series, set in the 1950's is good.

Gosh, I thought I was the only person who'd read Sarah Caudwell's books. I love them!

DancelikeEmmaGoldman "Sort of Barbara Pym with a murder" sounds brilliant, especially as I'm a sucker for books with an ecclesiastical setting. Thanks for the recommendation!

@mackerella I have also read and really enjoyed Sarah Caudwell.

Maybe Raymond Carver or Sue Grafton?

Or the Maigret books?

Josephine Tey
Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver series (Golden Age British)
Michael Pearce's Mamur Zapt series (set in colonial Egypt)
Iain Pears' Jonathan Argyll series (art crime in Italy)
James Melville's Inspector Otani (set in modern Japan)
Magdalen Nabb's Marshal Guarnaccia series (set in modern Florence)
Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series (set in modern Sicily)
Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti series (set in modern Venice)
Gillian Linscott's Nell Bray series (wonderful feisty suffragette sleuth)
Marcho Vichi's Inspector Bordelli series (set in modern Florence)

I second (third?) Nicola Upson Josephine Tey books. An Expert in Murder had a very strong sense of the era.

Volker Kutscher's Babylon Berlin series is set in 1920s & 1930s Germany. I think there are 5 books so far, all available in English.

Blimey lots to look up now.
I'm particularly liking the sound of Sarah Caudwell at the moment and have been reminded of some other authors I'd forgotten.
Thank you all so much

Jo Spain - Irish crime writer, very good
Tana French - ditto

If you like Lee Child, maybe try Simon Kernick.

Louise Penny - Canadian, set in Quebec
Sue Grafton - American, series started in the 80s
Michael Connelly

Some brilliant books suggested already. Louise Penny not vintage but awesome. Patricia Wentworth is bliss. Elizabeth Edmunson - A very English murder series.
Karen Charlton - Detective Lavender mysteries (Victorian)
Catriona Matheson - After the Armistice Ball
Anne Zouroudi - The Greek detective series
Carola Dunn - The Bloody Tower
William Magnay - The Hunt Ball Mystery (20s-30s)
J S Fletcher - The Orange-yellow Diamond (20s?)
Kyril Bonfiglioni - Charlie Mortdecai series (spoof)
James Anderson - Burford family (30s)
Lindsey Davies - Falco series (Roman)

Ooo I forgot A A Milne - The Red House Mystery (Edwardian locked room)

I've heard good things about the classic Japanese murder-mystery The Honjin Murders
www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-honjin-murders-classic-japanese-murder-mystery-1.4107178

It's next on my Kindle reading list (reading It Bleeds by Stephen King at the mo)

Have you read any Raymond Chandler books? They are set in 1930s featuring a lone private eye and often explore the seedy side of LA life.

I've just re-read 'The Big Sleep' and loved it - the descriptive language is sublime and i like the slang but I know some people find the attitudes to women / racism outdated and inappropriate.