Desmond Cory Books in Order

Private detective Lindsey Grey investigates the death of a wealthy painter and the disappearance of valuable artwork. His inquiries pull him into further murders, complicated relationships and a dangerous criminal plot in the Sussex art world.

In postwar London, Johnny Fedora investigates a network of surviving Nazi operatives carrying out political assassinations. Dismantling the organization requires navigating concealed loyalties and a revenge conspiracy capable of disturbing Europe's fragile new order at the beginning of the Cold War.

Lindy Grey investigates a possible Old Master forgery and an elderly author's suspicious death. Surrounded by art critics, aristocrats and enigmatic women, the detective must untangle apparently inexplicable events to identify the killer hidden among them.

British intelligence believes a ruthless former Nazi spy known as the Nightingale is using unrecovered German gold to revive the defeated movement. Given a new identity and a dangerous assignment, Johnny Fedora must penetrate her plans and succeed where earlier attempts to stop her have failed.

A murder and stolen diamonds in Geneva draw Johnny Fedora into an espionage investigation in postwar Europe. As he uncovers links between the treasure and a series of deaths, the agent becomes a target himself, forcing a desperate escape onto a treacherous mountain.

Amateur detective Lindy Grey is preparing to marry when another hunt for criminals draws him away. His involvement in the case threatens his relationship, as his prospective bride begins to suspect that corpses interest him more than married life.

In Trieste in 1952, Johnny Fedora has one week to stop a political conspirator from bringing the city under Communist control. A dying man's message, a hidden photograph, and a coded connection among three women provide clues in a manhunt where every discovery brings fresh danger.

Johnny Fedora follows an archaeological expedition into Central Africa to recover an object wanted by both Nazi remnants and British intelligence. As members of the party are murdered, he must uncover the expedition's real purpose and the dangers hidden in the jungle before becoming its next victim.

Sabotage threatens a secret British nuclear experiment at a remote desert air base, leaving men dead and the project increasingly vulnerable. Johnny Fedora offers himself as bait for an elusive killer, attempting to uncover the infiltrator amid shifting loyalties and an approaching deadline.

British intelligence sends Johnny Fedora to locate the fortune concealed by a wealthy wartime double agent now believed dead. The search draws him into a dangerous struggle over hidden gold and a Nazi spymaster's legacy, with the dead man's widow adding another uncertain element.

A dying British pilot brings news of fighting in Tibet and two missing companions who survived a mountain air crash. The report sends Johnny Fedora toward a perilous mission in an unfamiliar country, where political conflict and the missing survivors' fate remain closely entangled.

A mutilated body in the Venezuelan jungle proves important to British intelligence because the dead man held knowledge of a devastating weapon. Johnny Fedora investigates amid criminal power and uncertain allies, trying to recover information others are determined to control or keep buried.

Behind his West Berlin travel agency, Mr. Pilgrim arranges escapes from beyond the Iron Curtain. Helping two Russian scientists defect creates an international uproar, while his operation conceals a personal mission involving revenge against a Nazi war criminal.

An assignment in Argentina requires Johnny Fedora to obtain the truth from a killer whose knowledge points toward an audacious political power grab. Extracting that information draws the British agent into a particularly dangerous predicament, testing his judgment and ability to escape an expanding conspiracy.

A sculptor recruits an unlikely group to carry a monumental head up a snowy Spanish mountain to its intended resting place. Johnny Fedora joins the expedition almost casually, only to discover that the difficult ascent involves more than artistic ambition when death follows the party uphill.

An escaped killer becomes a tool in a Soviet intelligence operation on the Spanish coast. Johnny Fedora is drawn into the resulting web of competing agendas, where unexplained violence and a secret beneath the sea threaten everyone involved.

British agent Johnny Fedora faces Soviet operative Feramontov in a Madrid crowded with spies and conspirators. With a plan for nuclear destruction nearing completion, Fedora must trap his ruthless opponent before the city is destroyed.

Diamond thief Jeye enters an uneasy partnership with Moreau and his younger wife, Fe. As their criminal ventures take them between Madrid and Tangiers, Jeye's growing attachment to Fe creates emotional dangers alongside the risks of their robberies.

Sent to Madrid to resolve an intelligence crisis, Johnny Fedora encounters his old enemy Feramontov and a network of questionable allies. A fellow agent's divided loyalties and a wealthy criminal's schemes complicate an already dangerous assignment.

Johnny Fedora wakes in a Spanish hospital with missing memories and an unfamiliar identity. Trying to piece together his recent past, he becomes caught between intelligence operatives and his Russian enemy Feramontov, whose plans threaten far more than Fedora’s recovery.

Johnny Fedora must stop Soviet spymaster Feramontov from unleashing a stolen American weapon in southern Spain. With the device completed by Soviet experts and countless lives threatened, Fedora faces a deadly confrontation with an enemy who has planned mass destruction.

Valerie persuades prison psychiatrist Oliver Milton to help recover diamonds stolen by her imprisoned husband. A plan to free the prisoner draws in another accomplice, but competing motives make the search for the hidden jewels increasingly treacherous.

A young policeman travels to Spain to find missing crime writer William Bennett in connection with an au pair's death. Bennett's apparent journal complicates the search, raising questions about identity and the relationship between the investigator and his quarry.

Absent-minded mathematics professor John Dobie barely notices a student's death until he is drugged and forced to witness his estranged wife's murder. Further deaths draw him into an investigation with practical pathologist Kate Coyle, whose help may make an amateur detective of the reluctant academic.

Professor John Dobie takes a teaching post in Cyprus after friends and colleagues seek distance from his earlier adventures. Discovering that his predecessor, a former student, has been murdered pulls the mathematically minded visitor into another mystery far removed from the classroom he expected.

John Dobie and Kate Coyle discover a badly injured teenager beside a road during an Atlantic storm. After she dies, the question of whether an apparent collision was accidental draws the eccentric professor into an investigation that increasingly irritates the police.

A drug lord's imprisonment opens a violent struggle for his market in South Wales. When a trafficker is murdered and Professor Dobie becomes involved, a celebrity journalist pursues the story through criminal networks and a compromised police connection, while investigators struggle to understand the killing.