Hugh Collier Books in Order

Wealthy shipwreck survivor Elbert Pakenham makes his fellow survivors beneficiaries of his will. When heirs begin dying mysteriously and Pakenham disappears, Inspector Hugh Collier investigates a possible scheme to concentrate the fortune in fewer hands.

A Christmas masquerade ends in murder during a game of hide-and-seek in a darkened country house. Suspicion falls on a blind war veteran, while Inspector Collier and Hermann Glide investigate the victim’s blackmailing past and the secrets haunting the guests.

Harriet Hall is murdered at her isolated cottage just before her young niece arrives. Inspector Collier investigates why the neighboring Deene family seemed beholden to her, navigating local police incompetence as an apparently straightforward case grows increasingly strange.

Romanov jewels disappear after an English governess escapes Russia and dies in England. Years later, a waiter’s fatal disclosure sets off a hunt for a famous emerald, drawing Inspector Hugh Collier into a dangerous case of hidden treasure and competing interests.

A filmmaker visits a Somerset manor to investigate a family’s legends of witchcraft and haunting for his next production. After he leaves, two murders bring Inspector Hugh Collier to Little Baring, where family secrets and unsettling folklore complicate the investigation.