Patrick Quentin Books in Order

In a quiet English village, two visiting sisters are struck down by a rare poison on the same day. Scotland Yard's Archibald Inge arrives to investigate, only to find more deaths and a motive stranger than it first appears.

At a women-only residence, an invalid doctor is found dead in a gas-filled room that may not be suicide at all. When another similar death follows, the residents and staff become suspects in a tight, uneasy closed-circle mystery.

American student Hilary Fenton is already off balance in an elite English academic world when a fellow student dies in suspicious circumstances. A letter, a mysterious girl, and a second killing push him into a dangerous amateur investigation.

Cub reporter Mary Llewellyn boards a restful sea cruise and finds herself in a locked-in murder puzzle instead. A poisoned cocktail at a bridge table and another death overboard turn the voyage into a deadly game of nerves.

A New England village is unnerved by slaughtered animals, then a missing girl and a mutilated corpse. Local doctor Douglas Swanson is forced into the role of sleuth as fear and suspicion spread through the town.

Recovering alcoholic Peter Duluth checks into a sanitarium hoping to rebuild his life. When murder strikes inside its walls, he has to solve the case while doubting his own senses, and his growing feelings for fellow patient Iris raise the stakes.

At a boys' preparatory school on the Bristol Channel, a student sent there for safety is found murdered. With staff, pupils, and old kidnapping fears in the mix, the closed school setting becomes a very dangerous trap.

Clara Van Heuten, a once-grand widow with a literary advice business, ends up dead with a knife in her back. Lieutenant Timothy Trant has only manuscripts, social pretensions, and a suspicious guest list to work with.

Presented as a murder dossier, this unusual puzzle centers on the deaths of Dr. Ferdinand Fenton and his secretary Pauline Farr at a boys' school. Readers sift through statements, reports, and clues alongside the investigation.

This dossier-style mystery begins when wealthy widow Claudia Cragge is killed during a dark séance. Lieutenant Timothy Trant must sort through heirs, spiritualists, and a stack of incriminating documents to find who wanted her silenced.

Fresh out of treatment, Peter Duluth is trying for a Broadway comeback with Iris as his star. Then an actor dies onstage in a crumbling theater, and Peter has to uncover a killer before the whole production collapses.

When a troubled college woman is found dead in a river, the scandal spreads through students and faculty alike. Lieutenant Trant and the victim's roommate have to unravel the hidden life she left behind.

A wealthy neighbor dies after a séance, and Dr. Hugh Westlake is pulled into a case thick with family tension and spiritualist tricks. When Westlake himself is attacked, the mystery turns even stranger and more personal.

Kay Winyard returns to Bermuda to stop her niece from marrying a charming brute with a vicious past. Before she can expose him, he dies, and the island fills with suspects who had every reason to want him gone.

While vacationing on the New England coast, Dr. Hugh Westlake finds a governess strangled on the beach with a red circle marked around a mole on her face. A second killing makes it clear a very deliberate madman is at work.

On wartime leave in San Francisco, Peter Duluth expects a little peace with Iris and gets anything but. A stolen naval uniform, a cousin mix-up, and a murder that points straight at Peter send the pair into a foggy tangle of false identities.

When the proud Hilton family returns to Kenmore, their homecoming stirs up old tensions and buried secrets. After their aged nanny dies mysteriously, Dr. Hugh Westlake slips inside the household to find out whether the family has welcomed back a murderer.

Peter and Iris hide out at a Nevada mansion filled with women waiting out their Reno divorces. When their husbands arrive and two guests end up dead, the desert retreat turns into a sharp, funny, and nasty murder hunt.

A country picnic turns sinister when an old folk ballad seems to foreshadow a string of killings. With twin boys found in the river and more deaths tied to the song, Dr. Hugh Westlake has to stop a murderer before the final verse lands.

After a bad accident leaves him with no memory, wealthy heir Gordy Friend starts to suspect his entire life is built on lies. As doubts gather around his father's death, the search for his identity becomes a fight to stay alive.

Back from the war, Peter Duluth follows Iris to Mexico after their marriage begins to crack. When Iris's lover's wife is murdered, Peter is dragged into a dangerous family mess where love, jealousy, and guilt all point in different directions.

Peter Duluth gives a lift to a glamorous stranger and winds up with a corpse and a target on his back. The trail pulls him from Mexico to New Orleans through a fast, twisty conspiracy full of double-crosses.

At a fashionable New England resort, actress Daphne Winters seems to be under attack from all sides. When poison and staged terrors start playing on her deepest fears, Dr. Hugh Westlake has to sort performance from real menace.

Mining engineer Mark Liddon comes home from Venezuela expecting a reunion with his wife. Instead he finds her missing, her former boyfriend dead in the house, and a trail of enemies who would rather he stop asking questions.

While Iris is away, Peter Duluth lets a young would-be writer use his apartment. When she turns up dead there, the evidence points straight at Peter, and he has to fight Broadway gossip, ambition, and suspicion to clear his name.

A respectable marriage shatters after Percy Thompson is stabbed to death and his wife Edith becomes the center of a national scandal. This legal thriller follows love, public judgment, and a murder case heading toward the noose.

Jake Duluth's troubled son is accused of killing his father's business partner after a reckless love affair goes wrong. Peter steps in to untangle a case built on family grief, bad choices, and loyalties that refuse to stay simple.

Struggling painter John Hamilton is trapped in a bitter marriage and tired of covering for his wife's drinking. When she vanishes after setting suspicion against him, he has to prove what really happened before the whole town convicts him.

Nickie Rood returns from Paris when the death of an aging Hollywood star throws his actress mother into danger. To save her, he has to pick through old friendships, fading fame, and very modern motives for murder.

George Hadley wants out of his polished, unhappy life, until a seductive intruder makes everything worse. When the man turns up shot, Lieutenant Trant starts peeling back the lies that George thought he could keep hidden.

Anonymous hints about his wife's infidelity barely stir meek Andrew Jordan until she is murdered and he becomes the obvious suspect. Forced into action, he starts uncovering enemies, traps, and the larger game being played around him.

Lew Denham has never fit comfortably inside his grand adopted family. After he finds a dead man in his apartment with ties to the Denhams, he has to dig past class snobbery and family pride to find the killer.

This collection gathers four Peter and Iris Duluth novellas, including Death Rides the Ski-Tow, Murder with Flowers, Puzzle for Poppy, and Death and the Rising Star. They bring the same blend of theater, wit, and murder in a shorter form.

This Edgar-winning collection gathers twelve crime stories and novellas with very different killers and motives. The title story follows a wealthy woman trapped in a vault, while the rest range from domestic menace to grim moral traps.

Bill Harding thinks he has buried his past in a rich, respectable second marriage. Then his first wife reappears, murder follows close behind, and Lieutenant Trant has to pick through a family built on compromise and concealment.

This volume collects four Patrick Quentin novelettes from the early 1950s, all steeped in travel, deception, and danger. In the title story, a writer bound for Zanzibar stumbles into shipboard murder, stolen diamonds, and an old romance gone bad.