Peter Robinson: Inspector Banks Mysteries

● Main character: Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) Alan Banks
● Setting: Yorkshire, England / present day
● Bold type indicates a book I've read

1. Gallows View (1987)
2. A Dedicated Man (1988)
3. The Hanging Valley (1989)
4. A Necessary End (1990)
5. Past Reason Hated (1992)
6. Wednesday's Child (1992)
7. Final Account (1994); aka: Dry Bones That Dream
8. Innocent Graves (1996)
9. Dead Right (1997); aka: Blood At The Root
10. In a Dry Season (1999)
11. Cold is the Grave (2000)
12. Aftermath (2001)
13. The Summer that Never Was (2002); aka: Close To Home
14. Playing with Fire (2003)
15. Strange Affair (2004)
16. Piece of My Heart (2006)
17. Friend of the Devil (2007)
18. All the Colours of Darkness (2008)
19. Bad Boy (2010)
20. Watching the Dark (2012)
21. Children of the Revolution (2013)
22. Abattoir Blues (2014); aka: In The Dark Places  
23. When the Music's Over (2016)  
24. Sleeping in the Ground (2016) 
25. Careless Love (2018) 
26. Many Rivers to Cross (2019) 
27. Not Dark Yet (2021) 

Susan Cooper: The Dark Is Rising Series

This is not a typical "series." It's a five-book sequence of fantasy novels written for young people.
Main Characters: Merriman Lyon, Will Stanton
Setting: England
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

Over Sea, Under Stone (1965) [See Review]
The Dark Is Rising (1973) [See Review]
Greenwitch (1974) [See Review]
The Grey King (1975) [See Review]
Silver on the Tree (1977)

Maud Hart Lovelace: The Betsy-Tacy Books

Main Characters: Betsy Ray and her best friends for life, Tacy and Tib
Setting: Mainly Hill Street, although the later books branch out a bit
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

Betsy-Tacy (1940) [See Review]
Betsy-Tacy and Tib (1941)
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (1942)
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (1943)
Heaven to Betsy (1945)
Betsy in Spite of Herself (1946)
Betsy Was a Junior (1947)
Betsy and Joe (1948)
Betsy and the Great World (1952)
Betsy's Wedding (1955)

Arthur C. Clarke: The Space Odyssey Series

This is a series of science fiction stories and novels that take place over a fairly long period of time and in different parts of the universe. In general, the main characters and settings differ in each of the works.
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

"The Sentinel" (written in 1948, first published in 1951 as "Sentinel of Eternity")
"Encounter at Dawn" (first published in 1953)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
2061: Odyssey Three (1987)
3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)

Frank Herbert: The Dune Saga

Main Characters: Duke Leto Atreides, head of House Atreides; Lady Jessica, concubine of the Duke, mother of Paul and Alia; Paul Atreides, the Duke's only surviving son; Alia Atreides, Paul's younger sister; many, many others
Setting: Mainly the planet Arrakis
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

Dune (1965)
Dune Messiah (1970)
Children of Dune (1976)
God Emperor of Dune (1981)
Heretics of Dune (1984)
Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)

Sue Townsend: The Adrian Mole Books

Main Characters: Adrian Mole, an adolescent boy (and later young man); his family and friends.
Setting: Mostly England
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13-3/4 (1982)
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1985)
The True Confessions of Adrian Mole (1989)
Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (1993)
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (1993)
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004)
The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 (2008)
Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (2009)

Raymond Chandler: Philip Marlowe Mysteries

Main Character: Private detective Philip Marlowe
Setting: California, mainly Los Angeles
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

The Big Sleep (1939)
Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
The High Window (1942)
The Lady in the Lake (1943)
The Little Sister (1949)
Trouble Is My Business (1950) (short fiction: four-story collection)
The Long Goodbye (1954) (Edgar Award for Best Novel, 1955)
Playback (1958)
Poodle Springs (1959) (incomplete; completed by Robert B. Parker in 1989)

Josephine Tey: Inspector Alan Grant Mysteries

Josephine Tey is the pseudonym of Elizabeth MacKintosh, who also published under the name of Gordon Daviot.
Main Character: Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard
Setting: England and Scotland
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

The Man in the Queue (1929), writing as Gordon Daviot
A Shilling for Candles (1936)
The Franchise Affair (1948)
To Love and Be Wise (1950)
The Daughter of Time (1951)
The Singing Sands (1952)

Agatha Christie: The Miss Marple Mysteries

Main Character: Miss Jane Marple, elderly spinster and amateur sleuth
Location: St. Mary Mead and other locales, mostly in England
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

1. Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
2. The Tuesday Club Murders (1932), aka: The Thirteen Problems
3. The Regatta Mystery (1939)
4. The Body in the Library (1942)
5. The Moving Finger (1943)
6. Mousetrap & Other Stories (1950)
7. A Murder is Announced (1950)  [See Review]
8. Murder with Mirrors (1952), aka: They Do It With Mirrors
9. A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
10. What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw (1957), aka: 4:50 from Paddington
11. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
12. Double Sin & Other Stories (1961)
13. The Mirror Crack'd (1962), aka: The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side
14. A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
15. At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
16. Nemesis (1971)
17. Sleeping Murder (1976)

Agatha Christie: The Hercule Poirot Mysteries

Main Character: Hercule Poirot, Belgian private investigator
Setting: mostly England
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
Murder on the Links (1923)
Poirot Investigates (1924)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
The Big Four (1927)
The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
Peril at End House (1932)
Thirteen at Dinner (1933)
Murder on the Orient Express (1934), aka: Murder in the Calais Coach
Murder in Three Acts (1935)
Death in the Air (1935), aka: Death in the Clouds
The A.B.C. Murders (1935)
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
Cards on the Table (1936) Poirot / Ariadne Oliver  [see review]
Poirot Loses a Client (1937), aka: Dumb Witness
Death on the Nile (1937)
Dead Man's Mirror (1937)
Appointment With Death (1938)
A Holiday for Murder (1938), aka: Murder for Christmas
The Regatta Mystery (1939)
Sad Cypress (1940)
The Patriotic Murders (1940)
An Overdose of Death (1940), aka: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Evil Under the Sun (1941)
Murder in Retrospect (1943), aka: Five Little Pigs (1942)
Murder After Hours (1946)
The Labours of Hercules (1947)
There is a Tide (1948), aka: Taken at the Flood 
Witness for the Prosecution & Other Stories (1948)
Mousetrap & Other Stories (1950)
The Underdog and Other Stories (1951)
Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1952) Poirot / Ariadne Oliver
Funerals Are Fatal (1953), aka: After the Funeral
Hickory, Dickory, Death (1955)
Dead Man's Folly (1956) Poirot / Ariadne Oliver
Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
Double Sin and Other Stories (1961)
The Clocks (1963)
Third Girl (1966) Poirot / Ariadne Oliver
Hallowe'en Party (1969) Poirot / Ariadne Oliver
Elephants Can Remember (1972) Poirot / Ariadne Oliver [see review]
Hercule Poirot's Early Cases (1974)
Curtain (1975)

Agatha Christie: The Superintendent Battle Mysteries

Main Character: Scotland Yard's Superintendent Battle. To be accurate, Superintendent Battle is not so much a main character as he is a unifying element in this series of books. He also appears in the Hercule Poirot mystery, Cards on the Table.
Setting: England
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
Murder is Easy (1939), aka: Easy to Kill
Towards Zero (1944), aka: Come and Be Hanged

Simon Brett: The Charles Paris Mysteries

Main Character: Charles Paris, British actor and amateur sleuth
Setting: England
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

1. Cast, in Order of Disappearance (1975)
2. So Much Blood (1976)
3. Star Trap (1977)
4. An Amateur Corpse (1978)
5. A Comedian Dies (1979)
6. The Dead Side of the Mike (1980)
7. Situation Tragedy (1981)
8. Murder Unprompted (1982)
9. Murder in the Title (1983)
10. Not Dead, Only Resting (1984)
11. Dead Giveaway (1985)
12. What Bloody Man is That? (1987)
13. A Series of Murders (1989)
14. Corporate Bodies (1991)
15. A Reconstructed Corpse (1993)
16. Sicken and So Die (1995)
17. Dead Room Farce (1998)
18. A Decent Interval (2013) 
19. The Cinderella Killer (2014)
20. A Deadly Habit (2018)

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Len Deighton: Bernard Samson Novels

Main character: Bernard Samson, a British intelligence officer working for the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).
Setting: England, Europe, Latin America
The novels were issued as three sets of trilogies, plus one "prequel."
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

Berlin Game (1983)
Mexico Set (1984)
London Match (1985)

Winter (1987)

Spy Hook (1988)
Spy Line (1989)
Spy Sinker (1990)

Faith (1994)
Hope (1995)
Charity (1996)

Len Deighton: The "Unnamed Hero" Series

Main Character: An anonymous secret agent (named "Harry Palmer" in the film adaptations)
Setting: England, Europe and USA
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

The IPCRESS File (1962)
Horse Under Water (1963)
Funeral in Berlin (1964)
Billion Dollar Brain (1966)
An Expensive Place to Die (1967)
Spy Story (1972)
Yesterday's Spy (1975)
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy (1976), aka: Catch a Falling Spy

Dorothy L. Sayers: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries

Main Character: Lord Peter Wimsey, aristocrat and amateur sleuth; some of the novels also feature mystery writer Harriet Vane
Setting: England
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

Whose Body? (1923)
Clouds of Witness (1926)
Unnatural Death (1927)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)
Lord Peter Views the Body (1928) (short stories)
Strong Poison (1930)
Five Red Herrings (1931)
Have His Carcase (1932)
Hangman's Holiday (1933) (12 short stories, 4 including Lord Peter)
Murder Must Advertise (1933)
The Nine Tailors (1934)
Gaudy Night (1935)
Busman's Honeymoon (1937)
In the Teeth of the Evidence (1939) (18 short stories, 4 including Lord Peter)

Miss Read: The Fairacre Series

"Miss Read" is the pseudonym of Dora Jessie Saint
Main Character: Miss Read, an unmarried school mistress
Setting: The village of Fairacre in England
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

Village School (1955)
Village Diary (1957)
Storm in the Village (1958)
Miss Clare Remembers (1962)
Over the Gate (1964)
Village Christmas (1966)
Fairacre Festival (1968)
Emily Davis (1971)
Tyler's Row (1972)
Christmas Mouse (1973)
Farther Afield (1974)
No Holly for Miss Quinn (1976)
Village Affairs (1977)
The White Robin (1979)
Village Centenary (1980)
Summer at Fairacre (1984)
Mrs. Pringle (1989)
Changes at Fairacre (1991)
Farewell to Fairacre (1993)
A Peaceful Retirement (1996)

Margery Allingham: The Albert Campion Mysteries

Main Character: Albert Campion, amateur detective
Setting: England
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

1. The Crime at Black Dudley (1929), aka: The Black Dudley Murder
2. Mystery Mile (1930)
3. Police at the Funeral (1931)
4. Look to the Lady (1931), aka: The Gyrth Chalice Mystery
5. The Fear Sign (1933), aka: Sweet Danger; Kingdom of Death
6. Death of a Ghost (1934)
7. Flowers for the Judge (1936), aka: Legacy in Blood
8. Mr. Campion, Criminologist (1937)
9. Dancers in Mourning (1937), aka: Who Killed Chloe?
10. The Case of the Late Pig (1937)
11. The Fashion in Shrouds (1938)
12. Mr. Campion and Others (1939)
13. Traitor's Purse (1941), aka: The Sabotage Murder Mystery
14. Pearls Before Swine (1945), aka: Coroner's Pidgin
15. The Case Book of Mr. Campion (1947)
16. More Work for the Undertaker (1948)
17. Take Two at Bedtime (1949)
18. The Tiger in the Smoke (1952)
19. The Estate of the Beckoning Lady (1955), aka: The Beckoning Lady
20. Tether's End (1958), aka: Hide My Eyes; Ten Were Missing
21. Crime and Mr. Campion (1959)
22. Three Cases for Mr. Campion (1961)
23. The China Governess (1962)
24. The Mysterious Mr. Campion (1963)
25. The Mind Readers (1965)
26. Mr. Campion's Lady (1965)
27. Mr. Campion's Clowns (1966)
28. Cargo of Eagles (1967) (finished by her husband, Youngman Carter)

Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown: The Mrs. Murphy Mysteries

"Sneaky Pie" Brown is the author's cat.
Main Characters: Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, her cat Mrs. Murphy, and her Welsh corgi Tucker
Setting: Crozet, Virginia
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

1. Wish You Were Here (1990) (See Review)
2. Rest in Pieces (1992)
3. Murder at Monticello (1994)
4. Pay Dirt (1995)
5. Murder, She Meowed (1996)
6. Murder on the Prowl (1998)
7. Cat on the Scent (1999) (See Review)
8. Pawing Through the Past (2000)
9. Claws and Effect (2001)
10. Catch as Cat Can (2002) 
11. The Tail of the Tip-Off (2003)
12. Whisker of Evil (2004) 
13. Cat’s Eyewitness (2005) 
14. Sour Puss (2006) 
15. Puss 'n Cahoots (2007)
16. The Purrfect Murder (2008) 
17. Santa Clawed (2008) (See Review)
18. Cat of the Century (2010)
19. Hiss of Death (2011)
20. The Big Cat Nap: The 20th Anniversary Mrs. Murphy (2012) 
21. Sneaky Pie for President  (2012) 
22. The Litter of the Law (2013) 
23. Nine Lives to Die (2014)
24. Tail Gait (2015) (See Review) 
25. Tall Tail (2016) 
26. A Hiss Before Dying (2017) 
27. Probable Claws (2018) 
28. Whiskers in the Dark (2019) 
29. Furmidable Foes (2020) 
30. Claws for Alarm (2022)
31. Hiss and Tell (2022) 
32. Feline Fatale (2024) 
33. Sealed with a Hiss (2025) 

Amanda Cross: The Kate Fansler Mysteries

Amanda Cross is a pseudonym of Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Main Character: Kate Fansler, English Professor
Setting: Eastern U.S.Bold type indicates a book I've read.

1. In the Last Analysis (1964), aka: Triple Cross
2. The James Joyce Murder (1967)
3. Poetic Justice (1970)
4. The Theban Mysteries (1971)
5. The Question of Max (1976)
6. Death in a Tenured Position (1981)
7. Sweet Death, Kind Death (1984)
8. No Word from Winifred (1986)
9. A Trap for Fools (1989)
10. The Players Come Again (1990) [see review]
11. An Imperfect Spy (1995)
12. The Puzzled Heart (1998)
13. Honest Doubt (2000)
14. The Edge of Doom (2002)

Jeanne M. Dams: The Dorothy Martin Mysteries

Main Character: Dorothy Martin, retired American school teacher
Setting: England
Bold type indicates a book I've read.

1. The Body in the Transept (1996)
2. Trouble in the Town Hall (1996)
3. Holy Terror in the Hebrides (1997)
4. Malice in Miniature (1998)
5. The Victim in Victoria Station (1999)
6. Killing Cassidy (2000)
7. To Perish in Penzance (2001)
8. Sins Out of School (2003)
9. Winter of Discontent (2004)
10. A Dark and Stormy Night (2011)
11. The Evil That Men Do (2012) 
12. The Corpse Of St. James's (2012) 
13. Murder at the Castle (2013) 
14. Shadows of Death (2013) 
15. Day of Vengeance (2014) 
16. The Gentle Art of Murder (2015) 
17. Blood Will Tell (2016) 
18. Smile and Be a Villain (2016)
19. The Missing Masterpiece (2017) 
20. Crisis at the Cathedral (2018)
21. A Dagger Before Me (2019) 
22. Death in the Garden City (2020) 
23. Death Comes to Durham (2020) 
    
24. The Bath Conspiracy (2021) 
25. A Deadly Web (2022) 
26. Village Politics Can Be Murder (2024) 
27. Terror on the Train (2025)