Elliot Roosevelt Books in Order

Written with James Brough, this family memoir brings the Roosevelts down from legend to daily life. Elliot Roosevelt revisits Hyde Park, his parents' marriage, and the private strains behind a famous public partnership.

A young British secretary becomes the prime suspect when the son of a congressman is murdered at the White House. Eleanor believes the girl is innocent and starts asking questions the powerful would rather avoid.

After a financier accused of stock fraud dies in an apparent suicide, Eleanor suspects murder. The case brings trouble uncomfortably close to home in Hyde Park, where family friends and local reputations are at stake.

While visiting Bernard Baruch's South Carolina estate, Eleanor sees a quiet retreat explode into chaos when a film producer is killed. The case mixes high society, southern setting, and a murder no guest can ignore.

On a wartime trip to Britain, Eleanor investigates the murder of one of the king's trusted advisers. Clearing a friend from Scotland Yard means working through royal protocol, diplomacy, and a very careful killer.

A bleak White House Christmas turns stranger when a corpse is discovered in the walk-in refrigerator. Eleanor follows the shock through the household, where grief, routine, and murder suddenly live side by side.

An apparent suicide in the Oval Office looks wrong from the start. Eleanor takes up the case and finds a tangle of enemies, hidden motives, and questions no one in the White House wants asked.

When a popular Washington hostess is strangled in the White House Rose Garden, Eleanor helps piece together the victim's social world and grudges. The result is a smart period mystery set against a tense political year.

The murder of a young press office secretary sends Eleanor through a maze of White House staff, wealthy families, and visiting Soviet diplomats. It is a small crime on the surface, but the stakes keep widening.

Aboard the Normandie, a Russian ambassador drops dead after drinking poisoned wine. Eleanor investigates among diplomats, socialites, and shipboard intrigue, with a young John F. Kennedy lending a hand.

When repeal of Prohibition sparks assassination threats, Franklin Roosevelt turns to his friend Blackjack Endicott. The result is a brisk historical thriller full of gangsters, politics, and backroom deals.

A mobster is murdered inside the White House, and the crime threatens to spill scandal into every corridor nearby. Eleanor probes the killing while politics and organized crime press dangerously close together.

After a presidential aide dies from poisoned bourbon, the woman beside him becomes the obvious suspect. Eleanor isn't convinced, and her questions pull her deep into White House loyalties and deception.

A senator with plenty of enemies is murdered, and Eleanor joins the police to sort through lies, blackmail, and arson. The case turns into a sharp look at how dangerous private secrets can become in public life.

Blackjack Endicott is sent to California when a blackmail scheme threatens Franklin Roosevelt's campaign. Hollywood money, labor trouble, and political sabotage turn the job into a dangerous race against time.

Eleanor travels to the Bahamas on a sensitive mission involving the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. A killing exposes Nazi sympathies, wartime profiteering, and schemes that could threaten far more than one life.

When one of Eleanor's aides is killed, the trail leads beyond the White House household and into a German spy ring. With war approaching, even a private murder carries national consequences.

Sent to a secret meeting of anti-Nazi leaders in rural France, Eleanor finds an SS colonel murdered inside the chateau. Trapped among uneasy allies and hidden agendas, she has to identify the killer fast.

A judge is stabbed to death at the Executive Mansion, and a Black maid is swiftly blamed. Eleanor refuses that easy answer and digs into the case while balancing the public demands of being First Lady.

During a high-pressure White House visit from Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, a man is found dead in the Map Room. Eleanor investigates while wartime diplomacy and household nerves threaten to turn one murder into a larger crisis.

When a Federal Reserve Board member is found dead in his Georgetown townhouse, the police think the case is simple. Eleanor steps in to protect a friend and finds politics, infidelity, and a messier truth.

A secret wartime meeting with Churchill and Eisenhower is shattered when a body turns up in the Lincoln Bedroom. Eleanor follows the clues toward an assassination plot aimed straight at the president.

In 1933, a White House police officer is found dead outside the president's bedroom. Eleanor Roosevelt quietly investigates before the press or J. Edgar Hoover can take over, uncovering sex, corruption, and a growing threat to FDR.

Elliot Roosevelt looks back on the wartime conferences he attended with his father, Franklin Roosevelt. Part memoir and part political portrait, it offers an insider's view of diplomacy at a turning point in World War II.