Agatha Aston Books in Order

In 1876 London, a corpse near Lady Agatha Aston’s home draws her into a baffling series of gruesome murders. With eccentric friends and her basset hound, she investigates crimes that seem borrowed from sensational penny dreadfuls.

A Norfolk woman’s death is ruled a suicide, but doubts bring Detective James Simpson and Agatha Aston to investigate. With Betty and Talleyrand alongside them, they uncover a mystery rooted in witchcraft, village rituals, and events two centuries earlier.

Agatha Aston visits old friends at a country house for the weekend before Christmas. Snow leaves the guests isolated as murder, ghostly incidents, and romance complicate her stay, while her hound Talleyrand faces an unfriendly canine rival.

While Agatha Aston recuperates in a German sanatorium, Eustace investigates men named Siegfried killed with spears. Asked to help by Bismarck, he searches for links to Wagner’s opera as the danger draws closer to Agatha herself.

A Christmas visit to a German castle turns unsettling for Agatha and Eustace when they discover whispers surrounding a young woman’s death. Behind the festive welcome, family secrets and ominous folklore draw them into a dangerous investigation.

A professor dies hours after presenting a theory challenging the inevitability of decay in Christmas-time London. When Agatha Aston’s nephew becomes a suspect, she and Betty investigate a circle of scientists, performers, and writers to clear his name.