Robert Budd Mystery Books in Order

Madame Bourchard is found dead and her valuable pearl stolen despite a police cordon around her hotel. Private detective Lionel Crane faces contradictory evidence, including signs of strangulation and the discovery that she died from arsenic poisoning.

Solicitor Larry Graham reaches his gravely ill client’s remote home to find him stabbed to death. Superintendent Budd then arrives with news of another body outside, turning an urgent legal visit into a tangled murder investigation.

Superintendent Budd dismisses a threatening card sent to Hamilton Lorne as a practical joke. Lorne’s murder the following morning gives the grotesque drawing and its limerick a new significance as the Grim Joker claims further victims.

A mysterious avenger calling himself the Jockey threatens people he blames for corrupting horse racing. When blackmail gives way to murder, Superintendent Budd must identify him and determine who is responsible for the killings.

Superintendent Budd’s quiet holiday ends when a neighbor reports two burglaries in which nothing was stolen. The man’s subsequent murder and the discovery of a second dead criminal draw Budd into the mystery surrounding the apparently pointless break-ins.

A horse-racing result sets in motion the activities of the Silver Horseshoe, bringing deaths and suspicion into several lives. Superintendent Budd confronts a criminal mastermind while a reporter and an anxious husband become caught in the affair.

Mr. Dench disappears while posting a letter and is found murdered a fortnight later. Superintendent Budd investigates a trail involving a fireman’s helmet, a poetic pickpocket and the mysterious Witches’ Moon as further deaths follow.

Three football-pool winners disappear after receiving their cheques, leaving the money unclaimed. When three bodies are discovered, Budd investigates whether hostility to gambling, revenge or a scheme to steal the winnings connects the crimes.

A man is stabbed to death and a sinister painting disappears from his lodgings. Superintendent Budd encounters another dying victim and a second image of the same leering woman, linking an unusual work of art to murder.

A stabbed stranger leaves Superintendent Budd a scrap of paper naming a wealthy man’s home and the House of the Goat. A stolen mummy and the search for a mysterious ring deepen the puzzle behind the killing.

Burglaries, sightings of a legendary ghost and two murders unsettle the village of Chalebury. Superintendent Budd searches for connections, including a missing ruby ring discovered beneath the body of a police inspector investigating the strange events.

Murders among a group of eccentrics in a London suburb draw Robert Budd into an investigation. A secretary caught in the affair adds urgency as he works through the clues to identify the killer.

A dying hit-and-run victim urgently summons Superintendent Budd and reveals that his injuries were no accident. Cryptic references to an abbot’s key, a fortune, and the Twelve Apostles launch an investigation into the mystery of the Silver Saints.

Delivering important papers to Professor Locksley, Jill Hartley enters a neglected house and discovers a murdered man at the foot of the stairs. Superintendent Budd investigates the violent death and the mysteries surrounding the address.

Superintendent Budd investigates the murder of John Brockwell, whose body is found pinned to a tree with a pitchfork. A playing card attached to his jacket raises questions about who hates the Brockwell family and why.

A caller identifying himself as the Tipster announces five planned murders to a newspaper. After the first named victim is shot dead, Superintendent Budd must trace the caller and stop the remaining threats from becoming reality.

Cinema cashier Paula Rivers receives a threatening note delivered by her sister at a stranger’s request. After Paula is shot dead in her ticket booth, Superintendent Budd investigates the warning and the mysterious woman who sent it.

Reporter Gordan Cross searches for Mr. Midnight, the suspected organizer of a series of robberies and murders. A nightclub tip leads him through riverside hideouts and country houses, while people connected to his inquiries begin turning up dead.

A corpse in a derelict village house is accompanied by a note quoting The House That Jack Built. When another victim appears with the same rhyme, Budd and Sergeant Leek must unravel the connection behind the killings.

Visiting Thatchford, Superintendent Budd is asked to help investigate a stabbing and threats against two business associates. Another murder occurs inside a guarded, locked room, leaving him to untangle a case built around apparently impossible circumstances.

Three solicitors are murdered with red tape, leading Superintendent Budd toward an earlier death connected to a compulsory property purchase. He must determine whether the killer is avenging a man driven to suicide by the council’s actions.

A recluse’s murder in Barnet becomes linked to the death of a typist. With help from Sergeant Leek and a newspaper crime reporter, Superintendent Budd assembles the scattered evidence while facing serious personal danger during the investigation.

Budd’s holiday with a retired reporter is interrupted by a series of murders in Little Ditchling. An unusual weapon and uncertainty over whether one person committed all the killings make their apparent connections difficult to explain.

Police suspect an unseen criminal mastermind called Mister Big of directing major crimes. Superintendent Budd investigates when kidnapping and murder escalate the threat, but a witness who recognizes the organizer is killed before revealing the name.

Superintendent Budd searches for a steel box containing something of extraordinary value. His inquiries lead to a reputedly haunted mill and a tramp’s suspicious death, drawing him into cases involving murder, disappearance, blackmail, and apparently supernatural activity.

An archaeologist threatened with death is guarded at his bedroom’s only door and window. Despite Budd and Sergeant Leek’s precautions, he is found fatally battered inside an empty room, leaving the detectives to explain an apparently impossible murder.

A Thames policeman retrieves a mannequin stuffed with banknotes, and a body is discovered farther downriver. Superintendent Budd suspects a connection to counterfeit currency, drawing him and WPC Glenda Lane into a dangerous investigation in 1950s London.