Clara Benson Books in Order

Back from South Africa, Charles Knox expects an awkward weekend, not murder. When his former fiancée’s husband is found dead at Sissingham Hall, shifting loyalties and hidden motives leave only Angela Marchmont cool enough to untangle the case.

Angela is drawn into the poisonous Haynes family, where an inheritance dispute has already been followed by three deaths. Friendship pulls her in, but finding the truth means sorting through old grudges, fresh accusations, and a killer who may still be at work.

A rest cure in Cornwall turns into a hunt for a legendary diamond necklace hidden in an old smugglers’ house. Anonymous letters, midnight intruders, and too many treasure hunters make this one of Angela’s trickiest cases.

Angela heads to the Italian Lakes to look into a pair of suspect spiritualists and finds a death that looks too neat to trust. Between fraud, old enemies, and holiday distractions, the truth is harder to pin down than ever.

A Hogmanay house party at a Scottish castle takes a deadly turn when Angela finds herself among diplomats, spies, and a fresh corpse. Snowed in and under suspicion herself, she has to solve the case fast.

After stumbling across a disfigured body on the Romney Marsh, Angela follows the trail from a country estate to a smoky London nightclub. Illegal drinking, jazz, and false identities turn a grim discovery into a knotty mystery.

A visit to her very respectable brother becomes awkward when a local farmer is shot dead and the obvious suspect may be too obvious. With reporters circling and Inspector Jameson compromised, Angela has to see past village gossip.

A face from Angela’s past turns her private secrets into a public catastrophe. As the whole country judges her, she has to fight for her life and trust the one man who may have every reason to walk away.

Asked to keep an eye on a princess hidden at an English school, Angela expects political nerves, not disaster. When the girl vanishes, the case widens into a dangerous race involving revolution, intelligence work, and a shaky foreign throne.

When a dazzling society darling is poisoned at dinner, Freddy Pilkington-Soames is much too close to the scene for comfort. A pretty client, meddling Cynthia, and too many suspects make his first solo case delightfully chaotic.

A Hollywood star falls from a hotel terrace on the night of her biggest triumph, and Freddy can’t believe it was simple bad luck. Drugs, studio politics, and a ruthless rival reporter send him racing across London.

Before Angela can leave for a quiet Christmas in Saratoga Springs, her elderly neighbour loses a diamond ring. The search becomes a small but satisfying holiday puzzle, with room for romance and seasonal goodwill.

Maria Lucas expects never to marry, then new arrivals at Netherfield bring two very different suitors into her life. This Regency novella follows schemes, misunderstandings, and a quieter corner of the world around Pride and Prejudice.

A murder at a Temperance hall draws Freddy into a tangle of coded messages, radical politics, and secret agendas. What begins as one woman’s death soon looks tied to a far larger plot, and the clock is ticking.

A duke’s birthday house party goes sour when a professor is found dead clutching a famous pearl necklace. Freddy has family complications to juggle, but a killer on the loose makes scandal the least of anyone’s problems.

A wrongly delivered parcel leaves Angela with an ugly hat and a great deal of unwanted attention. Soon it’s clear the real prize is something else entirely, and several determined people are willing to use force to get it.

Stranded in small-town Illinois after floods halt her train, Angela falls in with a vaudeville troupe and takes up a theft case. It’s a brisk prequel that shows her helping an accused young man clear his name.

A locked-room shooting at a glittering society ball looks like suicide until Freddy starts asking awkward questions. Sabotage, blackmail, and aviation money turn the case into something much more dangerous than gossip.

Trying to leave detection behind, Angela is pulled into one last case by a message from beyond the grave. Old betrayals, long-buried resentments, and her own guilty conscience make this a darker, more personal mystery.

Freddy lands on the French Riviera with a missing diamond, a kidnapped racehorse, a dead body that won’t stay put, and his grandmother’s chaotic love life. Behind the farce sits a very real political scandal.

In 1941 Paris, Maggie Brouillard risks everything helping Jews escape. Years later in England, secretary Harriet Conway arrives at a faded manor and finds a family still haunted by secrets, loss, and one letter that could change everything.

In 1938 Florence, Stella falls hard for an American journalist just as Europe darkens around them. War tears them apart, and a missing letter with the power to rewrite her past becomes her last fragile hope.

When a West End impresario dies backstage, the cast blame a theatre ghost. Freddy suspects a human killer, and a second death forces him to sort through superstition, stage rivalries, and plenty of bad acting.

Angela’s belated honeymoon on Rhodes is interrupted by a dead archaeologist, whispers of a curse, and a cryptic note slipped under her door. Blackmail, superstition, and a second death turn paradise into a trap.

Covering an agricultural show, Freddy hears a dying stranger warn him that Longstaff is in danger. With another death, a scrap of newsprint, and ruthless enemies closing in, he has to stop a crime he can barely see.