Patricia Moyes Books in Order

Henry and Emmy Tibbett head to the Italian Dolomites for a ski break, but the holiday ends when a man who boarded a ski lift alive arrives at the bottom dead. More bodies follow in a sharp, chilly locked-room style mystery.

Sailing the English coast on a friend's yacht, Henry and Emmy Tibbett expect an easy holiday. Instead Henry becomes fixated on the death of a local sailor, and soon suspects the drowning is tied to a robbery at a nearby manor house.

Henry and Emmy Tibbett go to Geneva for a law-enforcement conference on drug smuggling, only to have an official found stabbed at his desk. With suspects all around him and gaps in his own movements, Henry faces an uncomfortably close investigation.

The staff of Style magazine are racing to finish their big fashion issue when one of them ends up dead. Henry Tibbett enters a world of models, photographers, ambition, and sabotage, with his own niece suddenly in danger.

A glamorous film production turns deadly when a leading man dies in what looks like an accident but feels all wrong. Henry Tibbett steps behind the scenes to investigate a clever murder hidden among egos, money, and movie-set illusion.

At her old RAF reunion, Emmy Tibbett is forced to revisit the wartime death of the pilot she once loved. When she realizes she may have been the last to see him alive, buried secrets begin surfacing and Henry knows the past is no safer than the present.

When a pushy bookmaker trying to buy the Manciple estate is shot in the family driveway, Henry Tibbett is sent to a village full of loyalty, eccentricity, and buried history. The deeper he digs, the stranger and more dangerous the case becomes.

The murder of a shabby Soho gambler looks routine until Henry Tibbett links it to an international commission handling an African border dispute. The trail runs from London to the Netherlands, where a local killing may trigger something much bigger.

At a birthday house party, an elderly hostess dies suddenly after opening her presents, and suspicion falls across her family. Henry Tibbett follows the trail through old loyalties, shaky alibis, and a carefully arranged family facade.

On holiday in the Alpine village of Montarraz, Henry and Emmy Tibbett are drawn into the murder of a charming ski instructor whose wife seems the obvious suspect. Henry isn't convinced, and the snowy resort starts to reveal a far uglier scandal.

A man goes to prison after a drunken killing, and Emmy Tibbett's sister turns up to collect his three dogs, only to find one greyhound missing. Henry connects the vanished dog to a much larger case involving crime, racing, and a very determined village.

After an unruly diplomat's wife is found shot at an embassy reception in Washington, Henry Tibbett is called in for a discreet investigation. The case carries him from drawing-room scandal to Caribbean politics, where another death may be waiting.

A U.S. senator is hacked to death at a Caribbean golf club, and a likable young islander is quickly blamed. Asked to help by friends on the island, Henry and Emmy Tibbett find motives that reach far beyond a local grudge.

A dying lord changes his will to favor a long-lost nephew, then two men appear claiming to be Simon Warwick. When one claimant winds up dead, Henry Tibbett has to solve both an inheritance puzzle and a murder.

A Caribbean holiday takes a strange turn when Emmy and Henry Tibbett meet a woman with a troubling story about someone lost at sea. After that woman disappears, Emmy has to sort through smugglers, storms, and half-truths while Henry is unusually off balance.

An anonymous crossword lands on Henry Tibbett's desk, and its clues point toward old deaths, false identities, and a gathering of mystery writers. What starts as a puzzle soon turns into a murder case with Henry and Emmy racing to solve both grid and crime.

On the ferry home to England, Henry and Emmy Tibbett wake to find a fellow passenger murdered and a fortune in Dutch diamonds missing. When the gems turn up in Emmy's bag, the trip's bad luck becomes a very personal threat.

Henry and Emmy Tibbett head to the Caribbean under the cover of a winter holiday, hoping to help an elderly friend who fears a cocaine ring is closing in. Their quiet investigation leads Henry into a risky game with smugglers and corrupt officials.

Susan Gardiner inherits the Blue Moon, a country pub that seems like a stroke of luck until a customer dies after lunch and suspicion lands close to home. Henry and Emmy Tibbett step in to untangle the pub's grudges, gossip, and hidden motives.

This collection gathers Patricia Moyes's short mysteries, including the title story of a murdered Father Christmas in a London toy shop. The stories mix holiday mischief, village secrets, and neatly turned twists.