Lord Edgington Investigates Books in Order

Summoned to Parham House to look into a small theft, Lord Edgington and Christopher are soon dealing with a series of baffling murders. Among antiques, ancient legends and quarrelling academics, they must decide whether the key lies in myth, money or a killer’s elaborate plan.

In the Surrey village of Kilston Down, the death of an unpopular miser barely raises an eyebrow—until other residents start dying quietly in their beds. Spending Christmas there, Lord Edgington and Christopher peel back layers of village cheer to expose a murderer hiding behind tinsel and tradition.

Investigating the disappearance of a politician’s wife at a beauty spot known as Silent Pool, Lord Edgington runs straight into a wall of family hostility. When the chief suspect is murdered and five combative siblings turn on one another, he races to stop the killer before the estate is emptied by death.

Visiting a family of famous authors at their country house, Lord Edgington and his grandson are confronted with an elderly man thrown from a window and three fiercely competitive sisters. This novella sees them pick apart rivalries, rewrites and a death that seems ripped from a manuscript.

After the vicar of Condicote is found dead in the vestry before a baron’s funeral, the local police quickly settle on a suspect. Lord Edgington, sensing a rush to judgment, sifts through village feuds, family secrets and church politics to save an innocent man from the gallows.

Escaping unwanted relatives, Lord Edgington heads to a snowbound coastal manor to investigate an attack on a miserly viscount. When one of the bickering heirs is killed instead, he and Christopher must decide which member of the grasping family is willing to murder for a fortune.

On the morning of his granddaughter’s society wedding, the Duchess of Hinwick is found murdered and the groom—Lord Edgington’s grandson—seems to be caught red-handed. To clear him, Edgington must probe a poisonous family where almost everyone is delighted the duchess is dead.

When an actor dies onstage during the premiere of a new mystery play, the theatre company insists it wasn’t an accident. Investigating behind the curtains of London’s West End, Lord Edgington and Christopher uncover rivalries, affairs and an old secret simmering beneath the greasepaint.

During a high-speed treasure hunt through 1926 London, Lord Edgington and his grandson Christopher investigate an industrialist’s death that soon links jazz-fuelled parties, a notorious nightclub and a second, very different victim.

Stranded by a blizzard, Lord Edgington and his grandson take refuge in a remote manor where a troupe of actors is snowed in for Christmas. Old scandals, a missing fortune and a growing body count turn the cosy party into a dangerous, locked-in investigation.

A reclusive millionaire fears he is being poisoned, so Lord Edgington, Christopher and their staff descend on Riverside Keep, where an uneasy young bride, resentful heirs and secretive servants turn a simple protection job into a multi-body country-house puzzle.

A weekend visit to friends in the Forest of Dean plunges Lord Edgington and Christopher into rumours of a centuries-old curse at Clearwell Castle. When villagers start dying and ghost stories resurface, they must look past legends to uncover a very human motive.

Invited to spend Christmas at a colleague’s country house, Lord Edgington and his family arrive to find Mistletoe Hall deserted and the snow closing in. As strangers trickle in and bodies begin to fall, he races to link seven very different guests to one ruthless killer.

At his seventy-fifth birthday ball in 1925, retired detective Lord Edgington discovers someone is murdering his own guests. With only his shy teenage grandson and a loyal golden retriever to help, he must unpick a nest of family secrets before the music stops.

Lord Edgington’s grand summer road trip across England ends at a crumbling Lake District estate where an old tragedy still hangs in the air. When one of the holiday party is murdered, he must solve a mystery that has festered for fifty years.

On a sunny outing to a scenic viewpoint, what looks like a tragic fall quickly feels wrong to Lord Edgington. This novella follows him and Christopher as they test alibis and bravado, searching for a killer who hides behind an apparent accident.

Called to Oakton Academy for Distinguished Young Gentlemen, Lord Edgington investigates a teacher found bludgeoned with a monkey statue on the last day of term. Staff scandals, vicious prefects and rebellious pupils make the school’s corridors as dangerous as any city street.