Miss Maud Silver Books in Order

Charles Moray comes back to London four years after being jilted and finds his former fiancee tangled in a brutal kidnapping plot. The trail leads to a masked criminal and to Miss Silver, who quietly starts pulling the case apart.

A man is already in prison for murdering his uncle, but his wife and her cousin Hilary believe the case went wrong. When Hilary's questions turn dangerous, Miss Silver is called in to reopen a supposedly finished murder.

Heiress Rachel Treherne starts receiving threats, poisoned chocolates, and other deadly warnings from someone close at hand. Miss Silver enters the household to sort through family tensions before the next attempt succeeds.

Newly married Lisle Jerningham overhears a conversation that makes her fear her husband married for money and murder. Miss Silver steps in when accident begins to look like design.

A shipwreck survivor returns with amnesia and a rival for his fiancee's loyalty close at hand. When the rival is murdered, Miss Silver has to clear a man who cannot trust his own memory.

Laura Fane's first visit to her own country house turns grim when old grudges, a glamorous cousin, and a house party end in murder. Even a treasured Chinese shawl becomes part of the deadly puzzle.

On New Year's Eve, James Paradine gives his family until midnight to confess to stealing valuable papers. Minutes after the clock strikes twelve, he is dead and Miss Silver must sort truth from panic.

Scientist Michael Harsch is about to hand a vital formula to the government when he turns up dead. Suicide looks convenient, but Miss Silver sees murder and a race for dangerous secrets.

Lady Anne Jocelyn, believed dead in occupied France, returns home to a husband and household uneasy at her survival. Then murder begins, and Miss Silver must ask who really wanted the past to stay buried.

Talk of selling an old family house is followed by a fatal fall and a string of near accidents. Miss Silver investigates the Pilgrim household, where loyalty, money, and fear are badly tangled.

Life at Latter End has been miserable since domineering Lois Latter took control of the family. When she is murdered, Miss Silver faces a house full of people who had plenty of reason to want her gone.

Dorinda Brown takes a governess's job with the rich Porlock family and quickly learns the house runs on tyranny, blackmail, and old damage. When Gregory Porlock is killed, Miss Silver has to cut through both murder and family lies.

Mary Strokes sees a dead woman in Dead Man's Copse, complete with a diamond ring in her ear, but the body vanishes before police arrive. Miss Silver and Frank Abbott investigate a case built on disappearing evidence.

A war-damaged man with no memory finds work under the name William Smith, but his arrival terrifies one young woman and puts his own life at risk. Miss Silver follows the trail back to the identity someone wants hidden.

James Lessiter's return to claim his family estate opens wounds that never healed. When he is bludgeoned to death, Miss Silver finds herself in the middle of a village full of old resentments and fresh suspicion.

An advertisement summons scattered descendants to spend a weekend at an old inn tied to their family history. When one of them is murdered, Miss Silver has to make sense of inheritance, grudges, and a place with a troubled past.

Jewel collector Lewis Brading is so frightened of theft that he begs Miss Silver for help, then ends up dead before she can act. The case turns on greed, nerves, and the danger of waiting too long.

Bill Waring comes home expecting marriage and finds the woman he loves engaged to an older, richer man instead. When that new fiance is stabbed with his own ivory dagger, Bill is the obvious suspect and Miss Silver must clear him.

Marion Brand inherits a large estate from an uncle she barely knew, then has to live among furious relatives who expected the money themselves. When a body turns up on the beach in her coat, Miss Silver steps in.

Miss Silver is hired to find the missing Anna Ball and walks straight into an odd art colony shadowed by counterfeiters and bank robbers. What begins as a search for one woman opens into something much bigger.

The quiet village of Greenings is not as quiet as it looks. When Clarice Dean is found drowned in the watersplash, Miss Silver uncovers long memories, buried passions, and a killing rooted in the recent past.

Ione arrives at the strange house called Ladies' Bane to visit her sister and quickly feels the place is thick with fear. Miss Silver has to untangle family secrecy before another loss proves the house's dark reputation.

A summer gathering at an old seaside house sours when a dangerous man from Carmona Hardwick's past turns up uninvited. Tension mounts, murder follows, and Miss Silver is there to read the room better than anyone else.

After being pushed downstairs, nearly poisoned, and targeted again in her own home, actress Adriana Ford finally calls Miss Silver. The warning is simple, the killer is inside the household, and the murders are only starting.

Nothing much happens in Hazel Green until a young woman disappears without a trace. Miss Silver has to ask whether village gossip and security leaks at a nearby experimental station are part of the same trouble.

Candida Sayle is taken in by elderly relatives and learns the family treasure comes with a reputation for death. While Miss Silver investigates an earlier killing, Candida may be next in line for danger.

Poison pen letters begin spreading fear through the village of Tilling Green, then an apparent suicide proves to be murder. Miss Silver goes in under cover and finds a killer using gossip as a weapon.

When Althea Graham's mother is found dead in the old summerhouse, suspicion quickly falls on Althea and the man she loves. Miss Silver knows the household's small habits matter as much as the larger clues.

Paulina Paine is deaf, but she can read lips well enough to catch a conversation she was never meant to hear. She goes straight to Miss Silver, and that chance overhearing opens a dangerous case.

Georgina finds her uncle Jonathan dead and makes herself the prime suspect by picking up the gun beside him. Miss Silver follows a trail that leads to a missing fingerprint and an old crime still echoing forward.

Jenny Hill unexpectedly inherits Alington House, only to discover the people living there mean to cheat her out of it. Miss Silver takes her side in a case built on property, fraud, and danger close to home.

A woman regains consciousness on cellar steps with no memory and a dead girl at her feet. Her panicked flight puts her in Miss Silver's path and starts one of the series' most unsettling mysteries.