Cherry Ames Books in Order

Cherry Ames leaves Hilton, Illinois, to train at Spencer Hospital, where wartime shortages give student nurses urgent responsibilities. Alongside lessons and new friendships, a patient hidden in a secret room draws her into a potentially dangerous mystery.

After graduating from Spencer, Cherry joins the Army Nurse Corps and undergoes basic training before deployment to Panama City. An ill man discovered in an abandoned house presents a medical mystery involving Dr. Joe's newly developed serum.

Assigned as acting chief nurse on a Pacific island near the battlefront, Cherry must supervise a large medical staff under fire. An injured pilot's unexplained silence draws her and her twin brother Charlie into another wartime mystery.

In her final year at Spencer, Cherry mentors a difficult first-year student while learning greater responsibility. When thieves steal Dr. Joe Fortune's formula for synthesizing penicillin, the two nursing students become involved in a dangerous investigation.

As an Army flight nurse, Cherry works with corpsman Bunce to evacuate wounded soldiers from battlefields. Off duty, concern for a young English girl leads her to investigate suspicions that the child's frequently absent father is a spy.

Back in civilian life, Cherry becomes private nurse to a famous musician with a serious heart condition. His sister's repeated visits to fortunetellers create dangerous stress, drawing Cherry into a mystery involving the family's hidden history.

Cherry works at a veterans' hospital after the war, helping injured men face the challenge of returning to civilian life. A theft of medicine needed by a seriously ill child gives her another urgent problem to investigate.

Cherry moves to Greenwich Village with nursing friends and joins New York's Visiting Nurse Service. While caring for people in their homes, she encounters Mary Gregory, a recluse whose mysterious Victorian mansion conceals a puzzle worth investigating.

Cherry takes a working vacation as nurse aboard a cruise ship bound for the Caribbean. A sickly child and men determined to locate a hidden supply of valuable ambergris draw her into a dangerous mystery at sea.

Cherry returns to Spencer Hospital to work in its new pediatric wing, bringing her nursing experience back to familiar surroundings. Her assignment becomes entangled with a pawnshop robbery and the case of a man believed to be wrongly convicted.

Cherry accepts a position as night supervisor at a small hospital struggling financially. The responsibilities of running its overnight nursing service become more complicated when a prominent patient brings conflict into an already difficult working environment.

Cherry travels to Kentucky's remote mountains for a nursing assignment among communities facing difficult conditions. Her efforts to care for patients become complicated by local superstitions and renewed family feuds, placing unfamiliar obstacles in her professional path.

Leaving Hilton Clinic one afternoon, Cherry is kidnapped and taken blindfolded to an unknown location. Forced at gunpoint to treat a gunshot wound, she must apply her nursing skills while facing the danger surrounding her captors.

Cherry takes a nursing job at Twin Mounds Ranch near Tucson, where difficult patients test her patience amid dude ranch life. Her assignment also draws her into the mystery surrounding a lost fortune and the owner's daughter.

Working as nurse at a girls' boarding school housed in a converted chateau, Cherry becomes curious about a secret room. Her discoveries lead toward a hidden perfume formula while the school faces serious financial trouble.

Cherry works for a country doctor in Sleepyside, New York, and encounters hostility at her boarding house. Local politics complicate the assignment as she helps a mayoral challenger investigate allegations of corruption against the town's current mayor.

Cherry takes charge of nursing staff at a rest home, a position she initially finds enjoyable. Two troublesome patients upset its routines, turning the challenges of supervising care into a more complicated assignment for the experienced nurse.

Cherry's first-aid office adjoins the antiques section of a large department store, where valuable items disappear. When suspicion falls on a recently widowed employee, Cherry investigates the thefts while continuing to care for the store's patients.

Spending the summer as nurse at a girls' camp, Cherry encounters a series of robberies that has placed an innocent man under suspicion. Her nursing assignment becomes an investigation as she follows clues surrounding the missing property.

A car-accident patient at Hilton Hospital has a broken leg and an unexplained loss of memory. Cherry assists the doctors treating him and investigates obscure clues as the man struggles with guilt he cannot connect to any remembered event.

While working at Hilton Hospital, Cherry helps care for a young accident victim who has suffered months of amnesia. His uncertain identity and unexplained feelings of guilt lead her to follow clues beyond the hospital's wards.

Cherry accompanies her patient Sir Ian Barclay to Balfour Island off Newfoundland, where his mining interests are troubled. Suspicious visitors and unexplained relationships draw her into a mystery while island storms create further demands on her nursing skills.

A private nursing assignment brings Cherry to Balfour Island, where her patient Sir Ian Barclay owns iron mines. His worries extend beyond illness, and suspicious activity around his house and the island draws Cherry into an investigation.

As the sole public health nurse serving a rural Iowa county, Cherry encounters troubling claims about folk medicine. Her work draws her toward a supposed herbal remedy made with ginseng gathered from swamp water contaminated by harmful bacteria.

Cherry's public health assignment in rural Iowa brings her into contact with a questionable folk remedy. Investigating its production, she encounters ginseng harvested from contaminated swamp water and a business whose claims threaten the people she serves.

At Hilton Hospital, Cherry worries that patient Peggy Wilmot is investing her late husband's insurance money in a fraudulent scheme. While managing ward duties and junior volunteers, she investigates the Pell Corporation and the promises delaying Peggy's recovery.

Cherry accompanies historical novelist Martha Logan to England as her nurse during a research trip. Art treasures disappear from collections they have visited, raising troubling questions about their new acquaintances and whether the thefts are connected.

Helping establish a health clinic in an African village, Cherry hopes to improve medical care for its residents. Suspicious events suggest the new facility may also serve as a base for an international rough-diamond smuggling operation.

Working in Dr. William Fairall's New York office, Cherry meets theatrical patients and new colleagues while anticipating weekends on Long Island. A disturbing series of events and a clue involving a dinosaur draw her into an unexpected mystery.

Cherry assists the only doctor in a Swiss Alpine ski resort, where a threatening patient and suspicious hotel guests signal danger. Ski instructor Val Nicholas helps her investigate a scheme that puts another sick man's life at risk.

Cherry's summer job as nurse at a girls' camp becomes entangled with unexplained robberies. With suspicion directed toward an innocent man, she follows the evidence to discover who is responsible while continuing her work with the campers.