Martha Bond Books in Order

Visiting Cairo after the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, Lottie Sprigg encounters fears of an ancient curse. When a hotel guest is poisoned, she investigates living suspects, but another murder and a threat to her dog complicate the search.

In glamorous Monaco, Lottie finds a note threatening murder shortly before a body appears at the casino. She and her dog Rosie pursue its writer through a web of lies, where wealth and influence make questioning suspects dangerous.

Accompanying her employer in Paris, Lottie Sprigg attends a dinner that ends with a body in the drawing room. Helped by her dog and a delivery boy, she follows clues through contradictory stories, then receives a warning to stop.

Christmas celebrations at Fortescue Manor turn grim when a body is discovered in the supposedly cursed shell grotto. Lottie Sprigg and her dog Rosie investigate, trying to separate superstition from evidence before the festivities bring another death.

Returning to Fortescue Manor, Lottie Sprigg attends a dinner intended to repair a family feud. A body in the library interrupts the reconciliation, and Lottie joins her dog Rosie in investigating suspects among both the household and its servants.

Traveling with a wealthy employer in 1923, maid Lottie Sprigg befriends an opera singer after finding his lost dog. His murder draws her into a Venetian mystery, and another death makes exposing the culprit increasingly urgent.

A psychoanalyst is found dead in the grounds of Schönbrunn Palace, and Lottie Sprigg’s employer’s beloved prince becomes a suspect. Asked to clear his name, Lottie investigates evidence that raises unsettling questions about the man’s hidden life.

A coastal holiday becomes a murder investigation when a body turns up in a boathouse near the estate where Lottie Sprigg is staying. With Rosie at her side, she questions local characters and encounters resistance to her unwelcome curiosity.

At a fashionable house party, Lottie Sprigg joins guests eager to explore the estate’s maze. One visitor never emerges alive, leaving Lottie and her dog Rosie to trace a killer through a puzzle whose twists become increasingly dangerous.