Patricia Wentworth Books in Order

Set during the French Revolution, this early novel follows a marriage pulled into the violence and betrayals of the Terror. Wentworth mixes personal devotion with political danger and the threat of the guillotine.

A moonlit encounter and a sudden disappearance set off this intense early Wentworth novel. It blends romance, mystery, and raw emotion as private passions turn dangerous.

With Queen Anne dying in 1714, ambitious courtiers and anxious families scramble for position in England and France. Wentworth turns the moment into a historical tale of intrigue, divided loyalties, and risky journeys.

Jobless and nearly out of money, Jane Smith is swept from an ordinary London day into a conspiracy that demands nerve and quick thinking. It is an early Wentworth adventure with disguise, danger, and a smart heroine at the center.

Peter Waring inherits a jewel said to bring power and wealth, but also ruin to anyone who holds it. The hunt for the stone drives him into deceit, false romance, and near-fatal treachery.

Sally Meredith's eccentric uncle disappears after bringing with him a lacquer case full of deadly importance. Because she alone knows how to open it, Sally is kidnapped and a desperate search begins.

Chloe inherits the secrets of a dying blackmailer when he leaves her letters hidden behind a black cabinet. His accomplices want the combination, and they are willing to kill for it.

Widow Amabel Grey accepts a challenge to live for six months in the Dower House, a place other tenants have fled in haste. Strange happenings soon suggest the house's bad name was earned.

Ten years after both Laydon brothers vanished in the war, an amnesiac man appears and claims the family name. Evelyn Prothero must decide who he is, and what dangerous chance he has seized.

John Waveney cannot shake the sense that missing Anne Belinda is much closer than her family admits. A vanished woman, a twin sister, and an uneasy inheritance drive this tense country-house mystery.

Mally takes a governess job and ends up framed for theft by a slimy secretary who thinks he can destroy her. Her escape from the police leads into a larger criminal plot with very real stakes.

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.

At a birthday gathering, David Fordyce meets again the woman he has not seen since her disastrous marriage. Old secrets, a dead husband, and a shadowy figure in the night make this one of Wentworth's eerier standalones.

A stranger's warning should keep Hugo Ross away from his new job, but instead it drops him into stolen secrets and industrial espionage. Benbow Smith enters when the affair proves bigger and deadlier than it first seems.

Car Fairfax thinks his odd new employment will be easy money until a string of coincidences shows he is being used. Wentworth turns a simple job into a smart little tale of deception and risk.

Rescued after twenty years on a deserted South Sea island, Valentine Ryven returns as heiress to a great fortune. Her homecoming should be miraculous, but buried truths make it dangerous.

Anthony Colstone inherits Stonegate and a strange warning never to disturb the ancient stones on the property. A moving wall, village lore, and a vanishing woman turn the estate into a maze of mystery.

Benbow Smith recruits a former Secret Service man for a mission against an enemy prepared to work in the shadows. The result is a brisk espionage thriller with political stakes and a steady undercurrent of danger.

Nan Forsyth enters a marriage that looks practical on the surface and far more dangerous underneath. A ruthless pair of enemies closes in, and romance becomes bound up with survival.

Laura agrees to a desperate marriage bargain to save the man she loves from a Soviet firing squad. Once he returns, both of them are drawn into a far-reaching plot powered by money and control.

Jim can remember a night of drinking and a dead man with famous emeralds, but not the six weeks that followed. Caroline is one of the few people willing to help him recover the truth.

When Jeremy Ware is suspected of stealing important papers, the trouble already looks serious enough. Then a sleepwalker, a cellar, and a murder pull Benbow Smith into a stranger and darker case.

Ann Vernon takes a secretarial post that carries her to a remote Scottish loch and an island surrounded by fear. When Charles Anstruther comes after her, he finds something far stranger than a simple disappearance.

Governess Sarah Trent finds a wealthy house full of ominous noises, footprints, and signs that someone wants young heiress Lucilla Hildred dead. The mystery keeps shifting, along with Sarah's idea of whom to trust.

A kitchen maid sees a human face behind a moving mirror and bolts into the London fog. Her story collides with a search for a missing heiress, and Wentworth turns both mysteries into one fast-moving adventure.

Agent Stephen Enderby rescues the widow of a Soviet inventor and tries to get her out of Russia with a vital formula. Their escape is complicated by politics, pursuit, and secrets she has not confessed.

Meg O'Hara's spy husband vanishes the day she asks for a divorce, and official channels say he is dead. One cryptic message suggests otherwise, and Frank Garrett enters a case full of espionage, lies, and murder.

Stolen goods keep turning up on Shirley Dale until even she begins to look guilty. With Anthony Leigh's help, she tries to clear her name before the plot against her turns lethal.

A bride-to-be disappears into what may be the latest in a series of bizarre abductions. Benbow Smith investigates, and the trail leads into one of Wentworth's stranger espionage adventures.

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.

Gay Harkwicke and her fiance Algy poke into the affairs of a blackmailer known as Mr. Zero, and soon Algy is the man police most want to question. Gay has to keep digging before suspicion hardens into a verdict.

Lost in the fog, James takes shelter at a dark country house where a frightened woman and the sound of gunfire leave him badly shaken. When he meets the woman again under another name, murder follows.

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.

Ross Craddock has managed to make almost everyone around him miserable before he winds up dead. Inspector Ernest Lamb must sort through a house full of motives, including sleepwalking, jealousy, and old resentment.

Peter Talbot goes undercover in an art-thieving gang at the request of his uncle Frank Garrett. What begins as a covert job at a country house becomes a murder case with the woman he loves caught inside it.

Lucas Dale is rich, ruthless, and determined to force Susan Lennox into marriage by blackmail if needed. When he is killed, Inspector Ernest Lamb has to decide whether the obvious suspect is also the right one.

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 dying stranger's package somehow ends up in Sarah Marlowe's handbag, and the woman who told her the story is murdered by morning. Sarah is forced into a dangerous hunt for whatever the parcel holds.

A parcel tied to a double agent and a compromising recording throws Delia Merridew into the path of wartime espionage. Ernest Lamb and Frank Abbott race to untangle the trail before more people die.

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.

A murder trial and the story behind it unfold side by side in this courtroom mystery. Wentworth keeps the suspects, motives, and hidden turns moving until the final verdict.

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.

One of Wentworth's early thrillers, this novel mixes romance, danger, and political unrest in a colonial setting. Love and loyalty are tested as larger forces begin to close in.