If it was the community of women at Shrewsbury—Harriet trading sharp, humane observations with dons like Miss de Vine while anonymous notes corroded trust—that gripped you, you’ll love how Lucy Pym navigates the rivalries at Leys Physical Training College. In Miss Pym Disposes, a visiting author watches small slights and ambitions escalate into a moral crisis after a shocking "accident." Like Harriet’s dilemmas in Oxford, Pym must decide what justice looks like among women whose lives and futures are bound up in scholarship and character.

If you admired how Gaudy Night lingers inside Harriet’s head—her wrestling with integrity, vocation, and love as much as culprits—you’ll appreciate Cordelia Gray’s quiet, steely introspection. Hired to look into a Cambridge student’s apparent suicide, Cordelia sifts through family secrets and bruised pride with the same moral sensitivity that makes Lord Peter’s late arrival in Oxford feel like grace rather than force. The case turns less on clever clues than on understanding why people harm—and save—one another.

If you relished the unhurried hours in the quads and libraries of Shrewsbury, where the poison-pen mystery unfolds through routines and rituals, you’ll sink right into Inspector Appleby’s first case. A college president is murdered behind a locked door, and the solution lies amid covenants of common rooms, cryptic quotations, and donnish alibis. The pleasure—much like following Harriet through tutorials and High Table—is in the cultivated pace and intellectual banter as the truth emerges step by deliberate step.

If you loved the sparring courtship of Harriet Vane and Lord Peter—those chess-like conversations where equality is the point—meet Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. In The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Russell’s quick mind and Holmes’s exacting standards forge a partnership that grows from mentorship into something richer, all while they tackle kidnappings and conspiracies from the Sussex Downs to London. It scratches the same itch as Harriet’s eventual acceptance: love as a meeting of matched intellects under the sign of truth.

If the heart of Gaudy Night for you was its inquiry into a scholar’s conscience—Harriet and the dons weighing work, truth, and responsibility—Eco’s monastic mystery will enthrall you. Friar William of Baskerville and novice Adso investigate a string of deaths in an abbey whose library hoards dangerous ideas. The disputations over heresy, laughter, and knowledge echo the Shrewsbury debates about the purpose of learning, all while the investigation winds through clues as intricate as any Peter and Harriet untangle.