Frances Doughty Books in Order

When a customer dies after taking medicine from her father's chemist shop, nineteen-year-old Frances Doughty faces the ruin of the family business. Convinced the poisoning was deliberate, she investigates despite police skepticism, uncovering deception and troubling secrets close to home.

Frances Doughty is hired to identify whoever distributed controversial pamphlets at a girls' school in Bayswater. Amid election excitement and campaigning for women's suffrage, the assignment develops into a murder inquiry that exposes lies and a concealed scandal among respectable residents.

A doctor operating a mortuary designed to prevent premature burial dies unexpectedly, and a trusted employee disappears the same night. Frances Doughty investigates the missing man, following suspicions of fraud, blackmail and murder toward a disturbing exhumation in the catacombs.

A sudden death divides Bayswater's rival advocates of diet and food reform, while Frances Doughty investigates anonymous accusations. An ex-prisoner asks her to trace his family, but his arrest for his wife's murder turns her work toward missing children and disputed innocence.

After a body is found in Paddington's canal basin, a woman with a hearing impairment believes it is her long-missing husband. Frances Doughty investigates her claim, uncovering the man's secrets as another death and an attack on a witness heighten the danger.

A knife-wielding killer spreads panic through Bayswater in 1881, prompting rumors, accusations and nighttime vigilante patrols. When a friend becomes a victim, Frances Doughty enters an investigation many consider unsuitable for a woman, testing both her deductions and her courage.

In London in 1882, a wealthy philanthropist vanishes from a locked room under guard. Frances Doughty reluctantly investigates the disappearance, finding connections to her own past while facing a murderer who may prevent her from uncovering the truth.

Frances Doughty goes undercover for the government to investigate apparently harmless activities at the Bayswater Bicycle Club. A suspicious disappearance and a brutal killing reveal dangerous secrets, forcing the detective to take extraordinary measures to avoid becoming the next victim.