Duncan Forrester Mystery Books in Order

Back at Oxford after the war, Duncan Forrester investigates a colleague’s murder when his best friend is accused. His attempt to clear the suspect takes him across Europe, where wartime betrayals and an old manuscript complicate the university mystery.

Duncan Forrester travels to Greece to retrieve an ancient Cretan stone, but witnesses a poet’s poisoning in Athens. Suspecting the intended victim was a politically important general, he confronts further attacks and an old enemy as civil war threatens.

In 1947, a brutal murder at the British Museum and threats against Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin draw Duncan Forrester into fresh intrigue. A voyage aboard the Queen Mary takes him toward New York as Britain confronts the dissolution of its empire.