Jack Murray Books in Order

At Christmas in 1919, Lord Cavendish receives a card announcing his death before he is found murdered. Kit Aston investigates among snowbound guests at Cavendish Hall, where wartime experiences and concealed motives complicate the search for a killer.

Murders of a trade unionist, a knight, and a bishop unsettle Britain in 1920, with suspicion falling on Russia. Kit Aston investigates a pattern tied to chess as a contest with a Russian grandmaster takes on deadly significance.

Kit Aston travels to San Francisco for his cousin’s wedding, where a private investigator’s murder exposes questions about the groom. Kit, Mary, and Agatha join Dashiell Hammett in a case involving kidnapping and a stolen Maltese bird.

A diamond thief leaves calling cards across London’s West End, drawing Kit Aston into an apparently straightforward investigation. With Mary, Aunt Agatha, and an aspiring filmmaker helping, he faces a more complicated case as the Elephant Boys gang becomes involved.

In 1876 London, a corpse near Lady Agatha Aston’s home draws her into a baffling series of gruesome murders. With eccentric friends and her basset hound, she investigates crimes that seem borrowed from sensational penny dreadfuls.

In London at Christmas 1909, Kit Aston and his friends attend a boxing event featuring aging fighter Haymaker Harris. Forced by financial troubles to face a younger, heavier opponent, Harris also has a worrying encounter with gangster Billy Kimber.

During the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, a French diplomat is murdered and the girlfriend of Kit Aston’s friend becomes the chief suspect. Kit investigates as the unstable aftermath of the Great War leaves Europe vulnerable to another deadly threat.

A medium’s discovery of a murder victim draws Kit Aston into killings stretching back decades. Suspecting a cover-up and a sinister cult, he seeks help from Scotland Yard, London’s criminal world, and Arthur Conan Doyle before more people die.

A Norfolk woman’s death is ruled a suicide, but doubts bring Detective James Simpson and Agatha Aston to investigate. With Betty and Talleyrand alongside them, they uncover a mystery rooted in witchcraft, village rituals, and events two centuries earlier.

Detective Nick Jellicoe hopes a seaside posting will help him recover from his wife’s death. A magistrate’s murder and his grandson’s kidnapping instead bring cryptic demands, suggestions of revenge, and a brewing conflict between local criminal gangs.

Kit and Mary Aston join Agatha in Monte Carlo, where suspicious casino activity turns into a murder investigation. When Kit’s uncle is accused, they must untangle the mysterious Bluebeard Club’s involvement before an innocent man faces execution.

In North Africa, British soldier Danny Shaw prepares for tank combat while German Manfred Brehme struggles with grief and doubts. Operation Crusader brings both men into a devastating battle that tests their training, loyalties and will to survive.

Exhausted by the North African campaign, British soldier Danny Shaw and German soldier Manfred Brehme face renewed fighting and doubts about the war. As Montgomery prepares a stand at El Alamein, both men confront a decisive struggle for survival.

A woman’s body is discovered near a remote bus stop, and suspicion falls on Black American veteran Chester Johnson. DI Nick Jellicoe investigates as the victim’s links to a far-right activist intensify racial tension in the seaside town.

Agatha Aston visits old friends at a country house for the weekend before Christmas. Snow leaves the guests isolated as murder, ghostly incidents, and romance complicate her stay, while her hound Talleyrand faces an unfriendly canine rival.

Growing up in England and Germany during the 1930s, Danny Shaw and Manfred Brehme face very different pressures as another war approaches. Their families’ fears and political upheaval propel them toward military service on opposing sides.

Kit and Mary Aston travel to Tangier after Aunt Agatha is accused of murder. When a hostile investigator is found dead inside a locked hotel room, clearing her name becomes a dangerous puzzle of shifting loyalties and double-crosses.

A soldier dies while escaping his army camp, and an American bandleader is murdered the following night. DI Jellicoe and DC Wallace examine possible connections amid jewel robberies, prejudice, and political suspicion, while struggling with their own pasts.

Suspended detective Nick Jellicoe travels to London to clear his name and pursue the man he believes killed his wife. Accompanied by Chief Inspector Burnett, he follows a trail of murder to Rome and a film set.

Threatening letters lure Kit and Mary Aston to a seaside variety theatre, where a magician is killed during his act. With police and old friends, they investigate performers hiding secrets while trying to prevent another death.

Celebrating New Year’s Eve in 1921 New York, Kit and Mary Aston attend a writer’s lavish murder mystery party. When their host is actually killed, simmering tensions among the guests become clues in a race to stop further deaths.

A visit to a friend’s Newmarket racing stables draws Kit and Mary Aston into an apparent suicide. Suspicion surrounding the men who discovered the body leads them through personal rivalries and a puzzle involving both motive and method.

While Agatha Aston recuperates in a German sanatorium, Eustace investigates men named Siegfried killed with spears. Asked to help by Bismarck, he searches for links to Wagner’s opera as the danger draws closer to Agatha herself.

Sent to write about a banker’s suicide, New York reporter Bobbie Flynn discovers a kidnapping caused by mistaken identity. As the captive child troubles her abductors, Bobbie and Detective Nolan uncover secrets behind the wealthy family’s public image.

Bobbie Flynn’s Sunday visit to the Metropolitan Museum turns into an investigation when a fresh corpse appears in an Egyptian sarcophagus. Murder and art theft lead her into further danger as a kidnapping brings the case close to home.

A music promoter’s death in a locked apartment takes reporter Bobbie Flynn into New York’s Tin Pan Alley. Working with Detective Nolan despite her father’s objections, she follows secrets linking the music business to the legacy of wartime violence.

A theatre impresario is stabbed during an opening-night performance, pulling reporter Bobbie Flynn into a world of theatrical rivalries and mob interests. When the victim is attacked again in hospital, she races to identify the killer.

A Christmas visit to a German castle turns unsettling for Agatha and Eustace when they discover whispers surrounding a young woman’s death. Behind the festive welcome, family secrets and ominous folklore draw them into a dangerous investigation.

A professor dies hours after presenting a theory challenging the inevitability of decay in Christmas-time London. When Agatha Aston’s nephew becomes a suspect, she and Betty investigate a circle of scientists, performers, and writers to clear his name.

May Day festivities in Upper Outwell are interrupted by an unidentified man’s death in the vicarage library. Kit and Mary Aston investigate with Aunt Agatha and their allies, uncovering concealed histories beneath the village’s cheerful celebrations.

Sidney Goodman is found over a murdered antiques dealer, protesting that he has been framed. Kit, Mary, and Agatha investigate a Russian countess’s vindictive will and a hunt for diamonds hidden among furniture scattered across Marseille.