Grand & Batchelor Books in Order

Union officer Matthew Grand travels to England seeking an accomplice to Lincoln's assassination. There he meets unemployed journalist James Batchelor, whose encounter with a murdered woman brings the pair together as investigators confronting another violent mystery in London.

When Charles Dickens dies at his Kent home, biographer George Sala asks Grand and Batchelor to investigate possible murder. The private enquiry agents question family and staff, entering a world of literary rivalries, public mourning, and concealed resentment.

Grand and Batchelor are hired to investigate the death of Lafayette Baker, former head of America's National Detective Police. Evidence of poisoning draws the enquiry agents toward powerful figures and lingering suspicions surrounding Lincoln's assassination in the politically unsettled postwar United States.

Grand and Batchelor travel to Maine for the wedding of Grand's younger sister, only to find a maid murdered before the ceremony. With local policing unavailable, they question relatives, guests, and servants while waiting for investigators from Boston.

Grand and Batchelor investigate the disappearance of timber merchant Selwyn Byng's heiress wife after a ransom demand arrives. Doubts about their client's honesty deepen when a disturbing package and a torso found in the Thames suggest a possible connection.

Matthew Grand answers George Custer's request for help, taking James Batchelor to a Dakota fort rife with rivalries and secrets. A body found on patrol raises questions about local enemies, mistaken identity, and whether Custer himself was the intended target.

Inquiry agents Grand and Batchelor investigate poisonings in London's Cremorne Gardens, where books accompany the victims. Meanwhile, painter James McNeill Whistler hires them to investigate John Ruskin, introducing another dispute amid the city's artistic and social tensions.