Nell Bray Books in Order

Suffragette Nell Bray travels to Biarritz to protect a bequest left to the women's movement by courtesan Topaz Brown. Topaz's brother contests the will, while her maid suspects murder, forcing Nell to investigate the supposed suicide and the interests surrounding it.

During the First World War, Nell Bray visits a Welsh hospital using psychoanalysis to treat shell-shocked soldiers. A suspicious shooting death threatens the already controversial institution, drawing her into an investigation complicated by military pressure and efforts to close it.

George Bernard Shaw asks Nell Bray to protect an actress estranged from her wealthy husband during preparations for a new play. When a censor's representative is murdered backstage and the actress unexpectedly returns home, Nell investigates the connections between the threats and death.

On a climbing holiday, Nell Bray witnesses the recovery of a man's body after thirty years frozen in a glacier. His family asks for her help, and her inquiries suggest that the long-accepted account of an accidental mountaineering death conceals something more troubling.

Nell Bray helps organize a suffrage procession during the celebrations surrounding George V's coronation. A suspicious float, a fire, and a fatal gunshot leave her friend Simon Frater apparently implicated, sending Nell after the people who escaped in the confusion.

While visiting her brother, Nell Bray becomes interested in the murder of a local squire. As she investigates the respectable image he maintained, evidence of his less admirable life emerges, including a discovery suggesting that his deception extended beyond death.

After a bombing involving the suffrage movement, Nell Bray agrees to recover indiscreet political correspondence to protect her friends. A dancer's private performance appears to offer an opportunity, until murder draws Nell deeper into blackmail, espionage, and unwelcome political company.

After the First World War, Nell Bray plans to stand for Parliament and accepts a widow's offer to finance her campaign in exchange for investigating her husband's death. Election pressures intertwine with suspicions that the former MP's fatal accident was murder.

Nell Bray questions the apparent suicide of her cousin Verona, who returns from London art school pregnant and dies with morphine in her body. Discovering connections to both bohemian circles and intelligence work forces Nell to examine Verona's divided loyalties.

As an Oxford student, Nell Bray joins friends for a reading holiday on a Lake District farm. Local hostility toward their host and tangled romantic tensions overshadow their studies, especially when his horse returns carrying his dead body tied to its saddle.

Nell Bray collects a valuable painting bequeathed to the suffrage movement, only to discover that the donor's widower supplied a fake. An attempt to reclaim the original from his Cotswolds home reveals a murder and entangles her in another investigation.