Roy Lewis Books in Order

In this comic prehistoric memoir, young Ernest recalls his inventive father Edward, whose bold ideas keep pushing the family toward progress. Fire, cooking and other breakthroughs bring chaos as well as evolution.

When Peter Marlin's wife is found strangled after a long absence, he becomes the obvious suspect. Scotland Yard's Inspector John Crow must look beyond the husband's affair before another person dies.

After a fatal house fire, Stephen Kirk's inheritance is challenged and his legitimacy questioned. Solicitor David Centre uncovers family secrets and missing wills, then must defend his client against a murder charge.

A murder in the woods leads Inspector John Crow into a case shaped by silence, memory and local suspicion. He must uncover the hidden connection between the victim and those determined to protect themselves.

Inspector John Crow takes on a murder case in which an early assumption threatens to send the inquiry in the wrong direction. His patient approach exposes errors that others are too ready to overlook.

A crime mystery centered on the Fenokee Project, where an apparently contained problem opens into a larger web of risk. Lewis builds the tension through secrets, competing motives and the search for a hidden truth.

A legal case draws its protagonist into a dangerous tangle of obligation and deception. As the facts grow more troubling, helping a client becomes a test of judgment, loyalty and personal safety.

Inspector John Crow follows the money after a suspicious death reveals a network of competing interests. The case becomes a test of who is willing to lie, and who is willing to kill.

A Highland farm is shaken when a mercenary son returns home and an old act of vengeance brings tragedy. Young lawyer Harry Wilson follows a family secret that reveals a frightening purpose behind the turmoil.

A murder linked to a mine brings Inspector John Crow into a community with its own secrets and loyalties. He works through conflicting accounts to find the truth beneath the surface.

Inspector John Crow is called into a country murder case where respectability masks personal conflict. His steady, methodical questioning exposes the tensions beneath a close-knit community's version of events.

A crime mystery built around uncertainty, divided loyalties and a deceptive second look at the evidence. Lewis follows the pressure on people whose accounts cannot all be true.

A mystery set against the pressures of work, place and private ambition. As trouble develops, the people involved must confront a past that has not stayed as distant as they hoped.

A threat of death turns into a tense mystery in which the warning may be as important as the crime itself. The investigation pushes past appearances to discover who has reason to silence the truth.

Inspector John Crow investigates a murder connected to fox hunting, where country traditions and private resentments complicate every lead. He must look beyond local loyalties to identify the person with the strongest motive.

A death that seems unavoidable still demands an explanation. This crime novel follows the people caught around it as suspicion, motive and old tensions turn an apparent certainty into a puzzle.

A troubling clue starts a mystery in which nothing is quite reliable, including the people closest to the case. Lewis uses suspicion and shifting evidence to build toward a dangerous answer.

A violent killing disrupts a community already divided by private grievances. As the investigation deepens, the line between a public tragedy and a deeply personal crime begins to disappear.

Former police inspector Eric Ward, now training as a solicitor, investigates the legacy of a convicted murderer. An inheritance dispute and an old killing point toward a scandal involving two prominent families.

A search for justice becomes more complicated when the people involved have their own versions of the past. This mystery follows the cost of pursuing truth when legal and personal stakes collide.

With his police career ended by failing eyesight, aspiring solicitor Eric Ward faces a personal crisis while investigating a bitter family feud. The case tests whether he can build a new life.

Planning officer Arnold Landon tries to preserve a medieval barn threatened by redevelopment. When a historian is murdered there, Landon digs into the building's past and uncovers a second deadly secret.

Recovering from serious eye surgery, Eric Ward accepts a lucrative job negotiating contracts for an entrepreneur. A threat from his past turns the assignment into a risky investigation with deadly consequences.

A thriving law practice and marriage seem to give Eric Ward a fresh start, until the wrong client changes everything. An assaulted journalist and a diamond-linked case pull him back toward danger.

After surgery improves his sight, Eric Ward finds his sense of time and place unsettled. A child's kidnapping and the threat of violence force him to confront a reality that remains dangerously blurred.

Asked to catalogue the library of a medieval manor facing sale, Arnold Landon finds property disputes and corporate politics turning lethal. A murder forces him to investigate the estate's people as closely as its books.

Arnold Landon is caught up in a Northumbrian land dispute involving a businessman, an aging aristocrat and an eccentric local woman. When murder follows, every claim to the land becomes suspect.

A death linked to the shipping world gives Eric Ward a case with money, contracts and dangerous incentives at its core. He must identify who stood to gain before the evidence is lost.

A murder in the stableyard brings Arnold Landon into a rural case shaped by property, tradition and private animosities. He follows the subtle signs that link a present crime to older conflicts.

Eric Ward follows a murder case into the City of London, where business interests and personal fear make poor witnesses. He has to uncover the truth beneath a polished surface of professional respectability.

An apartment murder puts Eric Ward in the middle of a case where property, obligation and private desire overlap. His legal training helps expose the deal that someone thought would remain invisible.

At an old church, Arnold Landon discovers a brutally killed man and suspects that local beliefs may conceal something darker. His efforts to involve the authorities make the investigation increasingly dangerous.

A deal involving a Spanish villa leaves Eric Ward facing a murder that cannot be separated from money and trust. He investigates the transaction's hidden costs before another person pays for them.

Arnold Landon is drawn to a house where a suspicious death has disturbed an already uneasy household. The clues lie in its history, its inhabitants and the stories they are reluctant to tell.

A tower and its troubled past place Arnold Landon at the heart of a murder inquiry. His knowledge of history helps him see connections that others miss, but it also puts him in harm's way.

A murder beneath a bridge sends Arnold Landon into a case where the past refuses to stay buried. He must work through local suspicion and conflicting stories to uncover the killer's motive.

Arnold Landon and bookseller Jane Wilson search for a treasure linked to the Knights Templar. Their historical quest turns dangerous when murder reveals that someone else will go to great lengths to claim it.

A death at a folly gives Arnold Landon another case in which old structures and modern motives collide. He follows overlooked details through a web of local relationships and carefully guarded secrets.

Arnold Landon investigates a death in a field, where the rural setting conceals more than it reveals. Land disputes, personal grudges and local history complicate his search for the person responsible.

A cottage becomes the center of a troubling murder investigation for Arnold Landon. As he examines the people tied to the place, small inconsistencies point toward a secret someone is desperate to protect.

A death on a golf course pulls Arnold Landon into a tightly connected community with much to hide. His patient approach exposes the rivalries and buried history behind an apparently open-and-shut crime.

At Haggburn Hall, Arnold Landon finds a murder case complicated by shifting identities and old loyalties. The past of the estate matters as much as the people now fighting over its future.

Arnold Landon takes a voyage aboard the Dawn Princess, where a death disrupts the apparent calm of shipboard life. Trapped among a limited group of passengers, he follows secrets, motives and misleading appearances.

While his wealthy wife is abroad, Eric Ward becomes involved with a troubled woman who is soon murdered. To clear his name, he follows a deadly trail through drugs, deceit and compromised loyalties.

While working in Northumberland's ancient woods, Arnold Landon encounters a body in a peat bog and another death nearby. Development plans, environmental conflict and family connections turn the landscape into a crime scene.

When a murder disrupts the nighttime routines of a troubled community, Eric Ward looks past the obvious suspect. His inquiry reveals the private resentments and hidden dealings behind a dangerous crime.

A case at Abbey Head brings Arnold Landon face to face with a suspicious death and a place full of competing claims. Careful research and persistence lead him toward a dangerous truth.

Eric Ward investigates a death tied to a slaughterhouse, where fear and self-interest cloud the evidence. His search moves from legal questions to a more urgent effort to stop a killer.

A seemingly elusive killer draws Eric Ward into a case full of false impressions. As a solicitor with a policeman's instincts, Ward must decide which accounts are reliable before the phantom disappears again.

Arnold Landon is drawn into a murder investigation in the south of France. Surrounded by local tensions and uncertain motives, he has to uncover the story behind a death before danger closes in.

Eric Ward investigates a murder marked by a tattoo and surrounded by uncertain identities. The case leads him through personal secrets and legal complications, where one overlooked detail could change everything.

In Rome, Arnold Landon's professional judgment is challenged after an artifact is stolen and sold on the black market. Disgrace and murder push him to prove what is genuine, and who is lying.

A death connected to football brings solicitor Eric Ward into a case where loyalty and rivalry run high. He must untangle the people around the victim before suspicion hardens into another tragedy.

A trip to China places Arnold Landon among artifacts, rival claims and a dangerous death. To find the truth, he must follow the evidence through a setting where history carries real value.

Eric Ward is drawn into a murder mystery involving the shadow of Tutankhamun and valuable antiquities. His legal skills and police experience are tested as the case reaches beyond ordinary professional boundaries.

A murder in Malacca draws the investigation into an unfamiliar setting where history and local connections complicate the evidence. Finding the killer means working out which secrets have traveled across borders.

An island secret sets the stage for a mystery involving danger, concealed motives and a past that refuses to stay hidden. The search for answers becomes increasingly risky as the clues accumulate.

Arnold Landon heads to La Rochelle and finds that a suspicious death has deep roots in the past. His talent for reading places and people becomes vital as old secrets begin to surface.

Solicitor Eric Ward faces a murder case with a pattern that refuses to fit the obvious explanation. Legal pressure, private motives and Ward's old investigative instincts drive him toward a carefully hidden design.

A striking resemblance becomes the starting point for a crime mystery full of uncertainty. As identities and motives blur, the investigation must determine whether the obvious explanation is a carefully prepared trap.

A short crime work that brings Roy Lewis's interest in law and wrongdoing to the foreground. The story turns on the effort to establish responsibility when the facts are incomplete and people are evasive.

One serious mistake sets a crime mystery in motion, leaving those involved to decide what can still be repaired. As the consequences spread, hidden choices and dangerous motives come into view.

Medieval architecture expert Arnold Landon travels to Valencia, where a death draws him into a mystery shaped by the city's past. He must sort through competing interests and concealed histories before another clue disappears.

A woman's case brings lawyers into a conflict where professional duty and personal interest are difficult to separate. The legal puzzle becomes a crime story as concealed motives begin to emerge.

A conspiracy with roots in Padua draws its characters into a dangerous mix of obsession, history and hidden influence. The mystery builds as private ambition turns a long-held secret into a present threat.

A case thick with suspicion tests whether the people closest to the truth can be trusted. Lewis builds a measured mystery from unease, conflicting accounts and the fear that violence may return.

A collection of incidents and observations that reflects Roy Lewis's interest in law, history and the private behavior behind public respectability. It offers a different angle on the concerns found in his fiction.

A sea-going adventure centered on the command of the Sea Tiger. With danger close at hand, leadership and loyalty are tested as the voyage develops into a high-stakes struggle.

A death in an unforgiving desert setting leaves little room for error. The mystery follows those caught in isolation as survival, suspicion and the search for an explanation become inseparable.

Appearances prove misleading in this compact crime story. Beneath a surface impression lies a more dangerous set of motives, and the effort to see past them becomes the heart of the mystery.

A cold sense of danger surrounds a death that raises more questions than answers. As suspicion spreads, the investigation must uncover what connects the victim to the people left behind.

A tale of hidden caverns, danger and a search for something valuable beneath the surface. The adventure gains tension as discovery brings the characters closer to risks they did not expect.

A darkly titled mystery in which death brings business, secrets and suspicion together. Lewis focuses on the people around the loss, where ordinary duties can conceal an extraordinary motive.

An Englishman on the run carries a past that cannot be left behind. Pursuit, uncertainty and old secrets turn his flight into a crime mystery with mounting personal stakes.

A distant signal from the past pulls a group of characters into a mystery shaped by memory, loyalty and danger. The search for answers reveals that an old conflict is not truly over.

Old events cast a long shadow over a present-day mystery. As the investigation uncovers forgotten connections, the people involved learn that the past may hold both the motive and the danger.

A seemingly quiet death leaves behind questions that refuse to stay quiet. This mystery follows the tension between public calm and private motives as an investigation begins to expose what was concealed.