Themis-Athena's Garden of Books

 

 

Following up on my First in Series post and, again inspired by Moonlight Reader, this post collects all of my currently (as of April 2020) ongoing series; i.e. all series that I have started and neither fully completed nor decided to discontinue.  Like my First in Series post, this is primarily for my own reference, so in order not to have too many sub-series sections I'm combining golden age and noir mysteries into classic crime fiction, ditto both major branches of speculative fiction (sci-fi and fantasy), and my major areas of nonfiction interest (history and biographies / memoirs). -- Wherever I didn't start reading a given series in order, I'm listing book 1 (not crossed out) in addition to the (crossed out) completed books to mark this fact.  By the same token, since I didn't start all of the series with book 1, it makes more sense to me to actually record the books I'v already read rather than the one following next after my respective last read.  Completed (or abandoned) series are moved to a separate post.

 

 

CLASSIC MYSTERIES / CRIME FICTION (GOLDEN AGE & NOIR)

Margery Allingham: Albert Campion
- read all books through No. 15 (The Beckoning Lady), plus assorted short stories

 

Eric Ambler: Charles Latimer
1. The Mask of Dimitrios

 

George Bellairs: Inspector Littlejohn
1. Littlejohn on Leave
3. Death of a Busybody

 

E.C. Bentley: Philip Trent
1. Trent's Last Case

 

Anthony Berkeley: Roger Sheringham
1. The Layton Court Mystery
2. The Wychford Poisoning Case
4. The Silk Stocking Murders
5. The Poisoned Chocolates Case

 

Anthony Berkeley: Ambrose Chitterwick
1. The Piccadilly Murder
2. Trial and Error

 

Nicholas Blake: Nigel Strangeways
1. A Question of Proof
2. Thou Shell of Death
7. The Case of the Abominable Snowman

 

Ernest Bramah: Max Carrados
1. The Tales of Max Carrados

 

Christianna Brand: Inspector Cockrill
1. Heads You Lose
2. Green for Danger
3. Suddenly at His Residence
5. Fog of Doubt
6. Tour de Force

 

Christianna Brand: Inspector Charlesworth
1. Death in High Heels

 

Phyllis Bottome: Mark Chalmers
1. The Lifeline

 

Fredric Brown: Ed and Am Hunter
1. The Fabulous Clipjoint
2. The Dead Ringer

 

John Buchan: Richard Hannay
1. The 39 Steps

 

John Bude: Superintendent William Meredith
1. The Lake District Murder

 

John Dickson Carr: Dr. Gideon Fell
1. Hag's Nook
5. Death-Watch
6. The Hollow Man
9. To Wake the Dead
15. Till Death Do Us Part

 

Raymond Chandler: Philip Marlowe
1. The Big Sleep
2. Farewell, My Lovely
3. The High Window
6. The Long Goodbye

 

Edmund Crispin: Gervase Fen
1. The Case of the Gilded Fly
3. The Moving Toyshop
10. The Glimpses of the Moon

 

Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French
1. Inspector French's Greatest Case
7. Mystery in the Channel
10. The Hog's Back Mystery

 

Clemence Dane & Helen Simpson: Sir John Saumarez
1. Enter Sir John

 

Francis Duncan: Mordecai Tremaine
1. They'll Never Find Out
2. Murder for Christmas

 

R. Austin Freeman: Dr. Thorndyke
1. The Red Thumb Mark
3. The Eye of Osiris

 

Michael Gilbert: Henry Bohun
1. Smallbone Deceased

 

Michael Gilbert: Inspector Hazelrigg
1. Close Quarters
4. Smallbone Deceased

 

Anna Katharine Green: Violet Strange
1. The Golden Slipper

 

Dashiell Hammett: Continental Op
1. Red Harvest
2. The Dain Curse

 

Cyril Hare: Francis Pettigrew
1. Tragedy at Law

 

Cyril Hare: Inspector Mallett
1. Tenant for Death
4. Tragedy at Law

 

Patricia Highsmith: Tom Ripley
1. The Talented Mr. Ripley

 

E.W. Hornung: Raffles
1. Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

 

Mary Kelly: Inspector Brett Nightingale
1. A Cold Coming
3. The Christmas Egg

 

C.H.B. Kitchin: Malcolm Warren
1. Death of My Aunt
2. Crime at Christmas

 

Ronald Knox: Miles Bredon
1. The Three Taps
3. The Body in the Silo

 

Gaston Leroux: Joseph Rouletabille
1. Le mystère de la chambre jaune

 

E.C.R. Lorac: Robert MacDonald
1. The Murder on the Burrows
13. Bats in the Belfry
26. Murder by Matchlight

 

A.E.W. Mason: Inspector Hanaud
1. At the Villa Rose

 

Gladys Mitchell: Mrs. Bradley
1. Speedy Death
2. The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop
4. The Saltmarsh Murders
5. Death at the Opera
7. Death Comes at Christmas (aka Dead Men's Morris)
23. Murder in the Snow (aka The Groaning Spinney)

 

Q. Patrick: Crime Files
1. File on Fenton and Farr

 

Clayton Rawson: The Great Merlini
1. Death From a Top Hat

 

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Nurse Hilda Adams
1. Miss Pinkerton
2. Locked Doors

 

Georges Simenon: Maigret
1. Pietr le Letton
6. Le chien jaune
11. La Guinguette à deux sous
30. La première enquête de Maigret
38. Maigret et la Grande Perche
44. Maigret à l'école
52. Les Scrupules de Maigret
68 Maigret hésite

 

Rex Stout: Nero Wolfe
1. Fer-De-Lance
5. Too Many Cooks
7. Over My Dead Body
11. The Silent Speaker
13. And Be a Villain
14. Trouble in Triplicate
16. Three Doors to Death
20. Triple Jeopardy
21. Prisoner's Base
22. The Golden Spiders
26. Three Witnesses
28. Three for the Chair
30. And Four to Go
31. Champagne for Death
33. Three at Wolfe's Door
34. Too Many Clients
36. Homicide Trinity
38. The Mother Hunt
39. Trio for Blunt Instruments
41. The Doorbell Rang
42. Death of a Doxy

 

Josephine Tey: Inspector Alan Grant
- Completed.

 

J.V. Turner: Amos Petrie
1. Death Must Have Laughed
7. Below the Clock

 

S.S. Van Dine: Philo Vance
1. The Benson Murder Case
6. The Kennel Murder Case

 

Henry Wade: Inspector Poole
1. The Missing Partners
9. Lonely Magdalen

 

Patricia Wentworth: Miss Silver
- see list of read books HERE.

 

Anthony Wynne: Dr. Eustace Hailey
1. The Sign of Evil
12. Murder of a Lady

 

 

SILVER AGE & CONTEMPORARY CRIME & MYSTERY

Nevada Barr: Anna Pigeon
1. Track of the Cat

 

Stephen Booth: Cooper & Fry
1. Black Dog

 

Simon Brett: Charles Paris
1. Cast, in Order of Disappearance
4. An Amateur Corpse

 

Ken Bruen: Jack Taylor
1. The Guards

 

Andrea Camilleri: Inspector Montalbano
1. The Shape of Water

 

Tom Clancy: Jack Ryan
1. Patriot Games
3. The Hunt for Red October
5. Clear and Present Danger

 

Ann Cleeves: Shetland
1. Raven Black
2. White Nights

 

Michael Connelly: Harry Bosch
- read all books through No. 23 (Dark Sacred Night)

 

Michael Connelly: Renée Ballard
1. The Late Show
2. Dark Sacred Night

 

Michael Connelly: Mickey Haller
- read all books through No. 6 (The Goods of Guilt)

 

Michael Connelly: Jack McEvoy
1. Jack McEvoy
2. The Scarecrow

 

Robin Cook: Dr. Marissa Blumenthal
1. Outbreak

 

Patricia Cornwell: Kay Scarpetta
1. Postmortem
9. Point of Origin

 

John Connolly: Charlie Parker
1. Every Dead Thing

 

Len Deighton: Bernard Samson
1. Berlin Game

 

James D. Doss: Charlie Moon
1. The Shaman Sings
3. The Shaman's Bones
5. The Night Visitor
6. Grandmother Spider
7. White Shell Woman

 

Åke Edwardson: Erik Winter
1. Death Angels
3. Frozen Tracks

 

Joy Ellis: D.I. Rowan Jackman / D.S. Marie Evans
- read all books through No. 6 (The Patient Man)

 

Joy Ellis: Matt Ballard
1. Beware the Past
2. Five Bloody Hearts

 

Chris Ewan: Good Thief's Guides
1. The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam
2. The Good Thief's Guide to Paris

 

Ian Fleming: James Bond
1. Casino Royale
6. Dr. No
7. Goldfinger
13. The Man With the Golden Gun
15.1 Quantum of Solace

 

Karin Fossum: Inspector Sejer
1. Eva's Eye
3. He Who Fears the Wolf

 

Tana French: Dublin Murder Squad
1. In the Woods
3. Faithful Place

 

Alan Furst: Night Soldiers
1. Night Soldiers

 

Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling): Cormoran Strike
- read all books through No. 4 (Lethal White)

 

Elizabeth George: Inspector Lynley
- read all books through No. 16 (This Body of Death), except books 12 (A Place of Hiding) and 14 (What Came Before He Shot Her). Abandoned thereafter.

 

Bartholomew Gill: Peter McGarr
1. The Death of an Irish Politician (aka Mc Garr And The Politician's Wife)
15. The Death of an Irish Sinner

 

Peter Grainger: D.S. Smith
1. An Accidental Death

 

Martha Grimes: Richard Jury
- read all books through No. 21 (Dust). Abandoned thereafter.

 

Martha Grimes: Emma Graham
1. Hotel Paradise

 

John Grisham: Jake Brigance
1. A Time to Kill

 

Mary Higgins Clark: Alvirah and Willy
1. Weep No More, My Lady
3. All Through the Night

 

Arnaldur Indriðason: Reykjavik Murder Mysteries
1. Sons of Dust
5. Voices

 

Michael Innes: Sir John Appleby
1. Death at the President's Lodging

 

J.A. Jance: Joanna Brady
1. Desert Heat

 

John Le Carré: George Smiley
1. Call for the Dead
2. A Murder of Quality
3. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
4. The Looking Glass War
5. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
7. Smiley's People

 

Donna Leon: Commissario Guido Brunetti
1. Death at La Fenice

 

Elmore Leonard: Chili Palmer
1. Get Shorty

 

Peter Lovesey: Peter Diamond
1. The Last Detective

 

Henning Mankell: Wallander
- read all books through No. 8 (Firewall)

 

Henning Mankell: Linda Wallander
1. Before the Frost

 

Peter May: Lewis Trilogy
1. The Blackhouse
2. The Lewis Man
3.5 Coffin Road

 

Sharyn McCrumb: Ballad Novels
1. If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
3. She Walks These Hills
5. The Ballad of Frankie Silver
12. The Unquiet Grave

 

Val McDermid: Karen Pirie
- read all books through No. 5 (Broken Ground)

 

Val McDermid: Carol Jordan / Tony Hill
1. The Mermaids Singing
2. The Wire in the Blood
5. Beneath the Bleeding
9. Splinter the Silence

 

Val McDermid: Kate Brannigan
1. Dead Beat

 

John Mortimer: Rumpole
- read all books except for No. 14 (Rumpole and the Reign of Terror)

 

Patricia Moyes: Inspector Henry Tibbett
1. Dead Men Don't Ski

 

Jo Nesbø: Harry Hole
1. The Bat
7. The Snowman

 

Gil North: Sergeant Cluff
1. Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm

 

Sara Paretsky: V.I. Warshawski
1. Indemnity Only
4. Bitter Medicine
7. Guardian Angel
8. Tunnel Vision
10. Total Recall

 

Robert B. Parker: Spenser
1. The Godwulf Manuscript
21. Walking Shadow
22. Thin Air
24 Small Vices
27. Hugger Mugger

 

Iain Pears: Jonathan Argyll
1. The Raphael Affair
5. Giotto's Hand

 

George Pelecanos: Derek Strange / Terry Quinn
- read all books through No. 4 (Hard Revolution)

 

George Pelecanos: D.C. Quartet
1. The Big Blowdown
4. Shame the Devil

 

Akif Pirinçci: Felidae
1. Felidae

 

Ian Rankin: Inspector Rebus
- read all books through No. 22 (In a House of Lies)

 

Ian Rankin: Malcolm Fox
1. The Complaints
2. The Impossible Dead

 

Dolores Redondo: Trilogía del Baztán
1. El guardián invisible

 

Kathy Reichs: Temperance Brennan
1. Déjà Dead
5. Grave Secrets

 

Ruth Rendell: Inspector Wexford
1. From Doon With Death
10. A Sleeping Life
15. Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
16. Simisola
19. The Babes in the Wood
21. Not in the Flesh
22. The Monster in the Box
24. No Man's Nightingale

 

Stella Rimington: Liz Carlyle
- read all books through No. 3 (Illegal Action)

 

Peter Robinson: Inspector Alan Banks
1. Gallows View
10. In a Dry Season
11. Cold Is the Grave
14. Playing With Fire
17. Friend of the Devil

 

Lisa Scottoline: Rosato & Associates
1. Think Twice
5. Moment of Truth

 

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir: The Children's House
1. The Legacy

 

Richard Stark: Parker
1. The Hunter

 

Peter Temple: Jack Irish
1. Bad Debts

 

Trevanian: Jonathan Hemlock
1. The Eiger Sanction

 

Trevanian & Don Winslow: Shibumi / Satori
1. Trevanian: Shibumi

 

Scott Turow: Kindle County
1. Presumed Innocent

 

Helene Tursten: Inspector Irene Huss
1. Detective Inspector Huss
2. Night Rounds
Series currently in abeyance.

 

Donald E. Westlake: John Dortmunder
1. The Hot Rock

 

Ulrich Wickert: Jacques Ricou
1. Der Richter aus Paris

 

R.D. Wingfield: D.I. Jack Frost
1. Frost at Christmas
6. A Killing Frost

 

 

HISTORICAL FICTION (INCL. HISTORICAL MYSTERIES)

David Ashton: McLevy (BBC Radio Drama)
1. Series 1 & 2

 

James Clavell: Asia Saga

1. Shōgun
5. Noble House

 

Barbara Cleverly: Joe Sandilands
1. The Last Kashmiri Rose
2. Ragtime in Simla

 

Max Allan Collins: Road to Perdition
1. Road to Perdition

 

David Downing: John Russell
1. Zoo Station

 

Alexandre Dumas: The Last Valois
1. La Reine Margot

 

Dorothy Dunnett: Lymond Chronicles
1. The Game of Kings

 

James Ellroy: L.A. Quartet
1. The Black Dahlia
3. L.A. Confidential

 

J.G. Farrell: Empire Trilogy
1. Troubles

 

Ken Follett: Kingsbridge
1. The Pillars of the Earth
2. World Without End

 

Robert Harris: Cicero
1. Imperium

 

Antonia Hodgson: Tom Hawkins
1. The Devil in the Marshalsea

 

M.M. Kaye: Death in ...
1. Death in Kashmir

 

Dennis Lehane: Coughlin
1. The Given Day

 

David Liss: Benjamin Weaver
1. A Conspiracy of Paper

 

Sharon Maas: Winnie Cox
0.5. The Small Fortune of Dorothea Q.
1. The Secret Life of Winnie Cox

 

Hilary Mantel: Thomas Cromwell
1. Wolf Hall
2. Bring Up the Bodies

 

Shirley McKay: Hew Cullen
1. Hue & Cry

 

The Medieval Murderers
- read all books through No. 6 (The Sacred Stone) plus book 8 (The First Murder)

 

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Series Associated with The Medieval Murderers:
Simon Beaufort: Geoffrey Mappestone
1. Murder in the Holy City

Susanna Gregory: Matthew Bartholomew
1. A Plague on Both Your Houses
2. An Unholy Alliance

 

Susanna Gregory: Thomas Chaloner
1. A Conspiracy of Violence

 

Philip Gooden: Nick Revill
1. Sleep of Death

 

Bernard Knight: Crowner John
1. Crowner's Crusade

Michael Jecks: Knights Templar
1. The Last Templar
6. The Leper's Return
12. The Sticklepath Strangler
17. The Tolls of Death

 

Ian Morson: William Falconer
1. Falconer's Crusade
6. Falconer and the Ritual of Death

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Walter Mosley: Easy Rawlins
- read all books through No. 3 (White Butterfly)

 

Emmuska Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
1. The Scarlet Pimpernel
2. I Will Repay
3. The Elusive Pimpernel
4. El Dorado
6. The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
11. Mam'zelle Guillotine

 

Robin Paige: Victorian Mysteries
1. Death at Bishop's Keep
7. Death at Epsom Downs

 

Jean-François Parot: Nicolas Le Floch
1. L'énigme des Blancs-Manteaux

 

Sharon Kay Penman: Plantagenets
1. When Christ and His Saints Slept

 

Sharon Kay Penman: Justin de Quincy
1. The Queen's Man

 

Anne Perry: Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
1. The Cater Street Hangman
21. The Whitechapel Conspiracy

 

Anne Perry: William Monk
1. The Face of a Stranger
2. A Dangerous Mourning
3. Defend and Betray

 

Anne Perry: Christmas Novellas
- read all books through No. 10 (A Christmas Garland)

 

Elizabeth Peters: Amelia Peabody
1. Crocodile on the Sandbank

 

Jean Plaidy: Plantagenet Saga
1. The Plantagenet Prelude
7. Hammer of the Scots

 

Jean Plaidy: Tudor Saga
1.To Hold the Crown
5. Murder Most Royal

 

Candace Robb: Owen Archer
1. The Apothecary Rose
6. A Gift of Sanctuary

 

Priscilla Royal: Eleanor, Prioress of Tyndal
1. Wine of Violence

 

Jed Rubenfeld: Sigmund Freud
1. The Interpretation of Murder

 

C.J. Sansom: Matthew Shardlake
- read all books through No. 7 (Tombland)

 

Neal Stephenson: Baroque Cycle
1. Quicksilver

 

Jane Thynne: Clara Vine
1. Black Roses

 

Rose Tremain: Merivel
1. Restoration

 

Various Authors: Canongate Myths
1. Karen Armstrong: A Short History of Myth
2. Margaret Atwood: The Penelopiad

 

Kate Westbrook: The Moneypenny Diaries
1. Guardian Angel

 

Samantha Wilcoxson: Plantagenet Embers
- read all books through No. 3 (Queen of Martyrs)

 

 

COZY MYSTERIES

Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow
1. Murder with Peacocks
10. Six Geese A-Slaying
16. Duck the Halls
18. The Nightingale Before Christmas
19. Lord of the Wings
24: Lark! The Herald Angels Sing
26. Owl Be Home for Christmas

 

Lesley Cookman: Libby Sarjeant
1. Murder in Steeple Martin

 

Joanne Fluke: Hannah Swensen
1. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
9.5. Candy Cane Murder

 

 

FANTASY / SCIENCE FICTION / SUPERNATURAL

Douglas Adams: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

Jim Butcher: The Cinder Spires
1. The Aeronaut's Windlass

 

Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park
1. Jurassic Park

 

Ian Doescher: William Shakespeare's Star Wars
1. The Phantom Menace
4. Verily, a New Hope

 

Scott Lynch: Gentleman Bastard
1. The Lies of Locke Lamora

 

Christopher Paolini: Inheritance Cycle
- read all books through No. 3 (Brisingr)

 

Terry Pratchett: Discworld
- read all books through No. 8 (Guards! Guards!), plus:
12. Witches Abroad
14. Lords and Ladies
15. Men at Arms
19. Feet of Clay
20. Hogfather
23. Carpe Jugulum
31. Monstrous Regiment

 

Terry Pratchett: The Science of Discworld
1. The Science of Discworld

 

Mary Stewart: Merlin Trilogy
1. The Crystal Cave
2. The Hollow Hills

 

CLASSICS & LITFIC
Pearl S. Buck: House of Earth
1. The Good Earth
3. A House Divided

 

James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales
1. The Deerslayer
2. The Last of the Mohicans

 

E.M. Delafield: Diary of a Provincial Lady
1. The Diary of a Provincial Lady

 

Charles Dickens: The Christmas Books
1. A Christmas Carol
2. The Chimes

 

Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford Chronicles
1. Cranford
3. My Lady Ludlow

 

Günter Grass: Danzig-Trilogie
1. Die Blechtrommel

 

Giovanni Guareschi: Don Camillo
1. The Little World of Don Camillo

 

Joanne Harris: Chocolat
1. Chocolat

 

James Herriot: All Creatures Great and Small
1. All Creatures Great and Small
X Cat Stories

 

Olivia Manning: The Fortunes of War
Balkan Trilogy
1. The Great Fortune

 

Penguin Great Loves
1. Vergil: Doomed Love
2. Pierre Abélard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil: Forbidden Fruit: From the Letters
9. Leo Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata
18. Anaïs Nin: Eros Unbound

 

Walter Scott: Waverley Novels
1. Waverley
4. Rob Roy
5. Ivanhoe
7. Kenilworth

 

Walter Scott: Tales of My Landlord
1. The Black Dwarf & Old Mortality
2. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
3.1 The Bride of Lammermoor

 

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu: In a Glass Darkly
1. Carmilla

 

Robert Louis Stevenson: David Balfour
1. Kidnapped

 

Angela Thirkell: Barsetshire
1. High Rising

 

Anthony Trollope: Barchester Chronicles
1. The Warden
2. Barchester Towers

 

Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer
1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

 

John Updike: Eastwick
1. The Witches of Eastwick

 

Various Authors: Hogarth Shakespeare
1. Jeanette Winterson: The Gap of Time
4. Margaret Atwood: Hag-Seed

 

Jules Verne: Voyages Extraordinaires
1. Cinq semaines en ballon
6. Vingt mille lieux sous les mers
14. Michel Strogoff

 

P.G. Wodehouse: Jeeves
1. My Man Jeeves
5. Thank you, Jeeves
7. The Code of the Woosters
12. Jeeves in the Offing

 

P.G. Wodehouse: Ukridge
1. Ukridge

 

Émile Zola: Les Rougon-Macquart
1. La Fortune des Rougon
9. Nana

 

 

HISTORY & (AUTO)BIOGRAPHY

Patrick Leigh Fermor: On Foot to Constantinople
1. A Time of Gifts
2. Between the Woods and the Water

 

Nick Hornby: Stuff I've Been Reading
1. The Polysyllabic Spree

 

Marcel Pagnol: Souvenirs d'enfance
1. La gloire de mon père

 

Liza Picard: Life of London
1. Elizabeth's London

 

Dorothy L. Sayers: The Letters
1. 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

 

Jennifer Worth: Midwife Trilogy
1. Call the Midwife