Albert Campion Books in Order

At a country house weekend in the grim old mansion of Black Dudley, a harmless ritual with an ancient dagger turns deadly when the host is killed and gangsters seize control. Among the trapped guests, the seemingly foolish Albert Campion proves surprisingly resourceful.

American judge Crowdy Lobbett is marked for death by the shadowy Simister gang, even after he flees to England. Albert Campion spirits the family to isolated Mystery Mile on the Suffolk coast, where vanishing relatives, a sinister maze and village secrets lead to a final confrontation.

Campion plucks young Val Gyrth off the London streets and escorts him home to protect an ancient family treasure, the Gyrth Chalice. In the Suffolk countryside, attempted theft, murder and local superstition collide, forcing Campion to outwit a ruthless gang after the heirloom.

When a disagreeable uncle disappears from a repressive Cambridge household, Campion is asked to help the anxious niece. Soon bodies mount within the eccentric Faraday clan, and Campion must work with Scotland Yard to navigate poisonous family loyalties before anyone else dies.

A tiny Adriatic principality, Averna, suddenly becomes strategically vital, and rival claimants scramble for the rights. Campion travels to the village of Pontisbright to help the impoverished Fitton family prove their title, racing a ruthless financier and meeting ingenious teenager Amanda Fitton along the way.

Eighteen years after flamboyant painter John Lafcadio’s death, his widow still unveils a newly discovered canvas each year. During one unveiling the lights fail and a man is stabbed in the dark. Campion, present as a guest, must probe jealousies and secrets in the bohemian art circle.

The venerable Barnabas publishing firm is rocked when director Paul Brande vanishes and then turns up dead, locked in the company strongroom. With another relative once having disappeared in broad daylight, Campion wades into family tensions and financial pressure to uncover what the Barnabas cousins are hiding.

Popular song and dance star Jimmy Sutane is plagued by cruel practical jokes as his new show opens. Called in by a mutual friend, Campion enters a theatrical household where old scandals, jealous understudies and a fatal "accident" blur together, and his growing feelings for Sutane’s wife cloud his judgment.

Campion narrates this case himself, beginning with the obituary of R. I. "Pig" Peters, a brutal school bully he buried months before. When Pig’s body turns up freshly murdered in a village, Campion faces a bizarre tangle of funerals, missing corpses and lingering grudges.

When a long missing man’s skeleton is found, Campion’s investigation leads to glamorous actress Georgia Wells and to his sister Val, a fashion designer supplying Georgia’s stage wardrobe. As lovers, rivals and old scandals swirl around a golden aeroplane, a string of convenient deaths begins to look planned.

Recovering from a head injury in a country hospital, Campion cannot remember his own name, only that he must stop something terrible. Branded a cop killer and on the run through a secretive wartime town, he pieces together a plot involving counterfeit money, treason and his fractured engagement to Amanda.

Coming home to London after years on secret war work, a weary Campion finds a dead woman dumped in his own flat. Reluctantly drawn in, he uncovers a trail linking her murder to missing art treasures and rare wine, chasing a nimble killer through blackout haunted streets.

In shabby Apron Street, disappearing criminals are quietly tidied away by the local undertakers, while the eccentric Palinode family lives above a chemist’s shop. Sent in by Lugg, Campion investigates two strange deaths among the Palinodes and a banker prepared to kill to get them out of the way.

In postwar London smothered by fog, rumours whisper that "the Tiger" is loose again. When war widow Meg Elginbrodde receives photographs suggesting her dead husband is alive, Campion’s enquiries collide with escaped killer Jack Havoc, whose hunt for a hidden treasure turns the city into his hunting ground.

Back in the Suffolk village of Pontisbright, Campion hopes for a lazy summer while his friends Minnie and Tonker Cassand prepare an extravagant garden party. When a body turns up on their land and the tax authorities close in, he must untangle overlapping motives in this oddly carefree community.

An old fashioned bus, a quiet London street and a single left hand glove are the few clues to a string of murders. Following a trail from a sinister private museum to an East End scrapyard, Campion hunts a patient killer whose respectability hides obsessive violence.

On the eve of an elopement, wealthy Timothy Kinnit learns he was adopted as a wartime baby and that ugly rumours cling to his unknown origins. With his future in doubt, Campion digs into the history of the bomb blasted Turk Street Mile and an old scandal involving a ruthless governess.

Campion and his wife Amanda take their schoolboy nephew and his clever cousin to visit a remote research island on the east coast. When one boy vanishes and shadowy figures covet a new electronic device, Campion and Detective Luke confront spies, kidnappers and unsettling hints of mind reading technology.

The Essex village of Saltey, long a haunt of smugglers, is seething with bikers, poison pen letters and rumours of a demon in the marshes. Campion sends young American researcher Mortimer Kelsey to stay there, hoping he can unearth the truth about a long ago robbery and the treasure it left behind.

At the fusty Inglewood Turrets hotel in north London, a minor Russian diplomat vanishes, leaving only his code name, Farthing, and a whiff of Cold War intrigue. Campion and his adult son Rupert pick through eccentric guests, spies and defectors to find out who is trading secrets and why Farthing had to disappear.

When an archaeologist dies suddenly and his maverick geologist colleague disappears, Campion suspects their remote quarry in the countryside hides more than fossils. Murder, kidnapping and a potential fortune buried in the rock draw in greedy opportunists, leaving Campion racing to keep his friends out of the crossfire.

Albert Campion is drawn to the tightly controlled village of Lindsay Carfax, where a series of bizarre "nine days" incidents hides something far more calculated. As he probes the town’s secretive rulers, quaint traditions turn lethally dangerous.

Asked to discreetly watch over a Danish ambassador’s headstrong daughter and her dubious boyfriend, Albert Campion enlists his actor son Rupert. When the couple vanish and a body surfaces in a lagoon, a simple family favour becomes a murder inquiry.

When Rupert Campion is arrested while coaching rugby at a Yorkshire boys’ school, Albert heads north to clear his son’s name. In a close‑knit mining village he untangles a master’s suspicious death, ghost stories and grudges that never really faded.

Playing adviser to a glamorous Italian film crew in Suffolk, Albert Campion revisits an old archaeological dig once visited by Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. Rumours of an "Abdication treasure" still haunt the village, and someone will kill to control the legend.

On his seventieth birthday, Albert Campion finally tells the story of a clandestine mission that sent him into occupied France during the war. His recollection of gangsters, double agents and betrayal shows how one dangerous job shaped the rest of his life.

In 1970 Albert Campion returns to Black Dudley, now part of a new university, as its official Visitor. When a charismatic professor researching mineral deposits is stabbed on campus, Campion must untangle academic politics and old scandals to find the killer.

A Soho club owner is shot in circumstances uncannily predicted by a best‑selling detective novel written months before. As further crimes echo fiction over the next two decades, Albert Campion and his police friends hunt a killer who seems to be reading ahead.

A Soho club owner is shot in circumstances uncannily predicted by a best‑selling detective novel written months before. As further crimes echo fiction over the next two decades, Albert Campion and his police friends hunt a killer who seems to be reading ahead.

When Lady Amanda Campion is arrested under the Official Secrets Act during a Cambridge ceremony, Albert is forced to take an interest in her hush‑hush Goshawk aircraft project. A horrific "accident" in the hangar points to espionage and lethal ambition.