A.E. Fielding

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books
  • First Book:
    November 2013
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Mystery at the Rectory

    The Rev. John Avery, rector of the village church, was famous for the eloquence and scholarly nature of his sermons. No one in attendance at the Sunday service was surprised then, when the rector, having evidently exchanged his notes for some other d...

  • The Case of the Two Pearl Necklaces

    The Case of the Two Pearl Necklaces, first published in 1936, is a classic British 'golden-age' murder mystery. The book, authored by A. E. Fielding (whose real identity remains itself somewhat of a mystery), features Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector ...

  • The Clifford Affair

    The Clifford Affair, first published in 1927, is a classic British 'golden-age' murder mystery. The book, authored by A. E. Fielding (whose real identity remains itself somewhat of a mystery), features Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Pointer, who is ...

  • The Tall House Mystery

    The Tall House Mystery, first published in the U.S. in 1933, is a classic British 'golden-age' murder mystery. The book, authored by A. E. Fielding (whose real identity remains somewhat of a mystery itself) features Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Po...

  • Tragedy at Beechcroft

    Tragedy at Beechcroft, first published in 1935, is a classic British 'golden-age' murder mystery. The book, authored by A. E. Fielding (whose real identity remains somewhat of a mystery itself) features Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Pointer, who is...

  • The Craig Poisoning Mystery

    The Craig Poisoning Mystery, first published in 1930, is a classic British 'golden-age' murder mystery. The book, authored by A. E. Fielding (whose real identity remains itself somewhat of a mystery), features Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Pointer,...

  • Scarecrow

    Scarecrow, first published in 1937, is a classic British 'golden-age' murder mystery.Chief Inspector Pointer has a problem. More specifically, he has a body and two women claiming it as their husband. The body, the apparent victim of robbery with vio...

  • The Cluny Problem

    Cluny is an ancient town in France better known for its past then its present, in other words, the perfect place for tourists and travelers. When a local wine grower who provides accommodations for the better sort of English tourist in his villa deci...

  • The Eames-Erskine Case

    When the body of a young man is found in the wardrobe of a London hotel it is at first assumed to be a case of suicide by drug overdose. But Chief Inspector Pointer has his doubts. Why, for instance, would the dead man choose to expire in the rather ...



  • The Footsteps That Stopped

    The Footsteps That Stopped, first published in 1926, is a classic British 'golden-age' murder mystery. The book, authored by A. E. Fielding (whose real identity remains itself somewhat of a mystery), features Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Pointer w...

  • Death of John Tait

    When John Tait collapses in front of the house of his step-mother, it is first assumed to be due to a heart attack. But when Chief Inspector Pointer is called to the scene, he quickly comes to suspect poison, a suspicion that is borne out by the aut...

  • The Charteris Mystery

    When the body of Rose Charteris is found at the bottom of a sand pit off Medchester Common, everyone assumed it was the result of a tragic accident, but when Chief Inspector Pointer of Scotland Yard discovers certain discrepancies, it becomes clear t...

  • The Wedding-Chest Mystery

    It was to be a fitting centerpiece of the Chinese themed suite in the new home of the financier, Boyd Armstrong, an ornate Chinese wedding chest, a gift of the explorer Major Hardy. When the chest is opened at the party held for the unveiling of the ...

  • The Net Around Joan Ingilby

    A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery! After a chance meeting on a Channel ferry, reporter Martin Blair had no expectation of meeting the “Fairy Princess” ever again. He had no idea that when he wrote an article for his paper after attending an inque...

  • The Westwood Mystery

    A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery!
    Sir Adam Youdale, K.C. was Britain’s preeminent barrister, at least for the defense. If there was anyone who could get his clients off, it was Sir Adam. Yet when the lawyer is found dead at Westwood, his home i...

  • The Cautley Conundrum

    A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery!
    The four Cautley cousins, Major Howard Cautley, Lionel, Jack, and Fabian could not have been more different, a wealthy businessman, explorer, architect, and mystic respectively. But the cousins, while they might ...

  • Murder at the Nook

    A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery

    The house known as The Nook would have been a perfect place for the newly wedded Layngs to live while awaiting the completion of the house they built. Perfect, that is, except for the body of a young woman ...

  • The Mysterious Partner

    A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery

    Farthing was one of the oldest and finest houses in England, and, as with many ancient houses it came with legends attached to this. A particularly gruesome one dated back to the time of Queen Mary when the...

  • The Paper Chase

    A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery!

    It began simply enough, a group of strangers on holiday meeting at a winter resort in the Italian Tirol. Within a matter of hours, though, after their return to England, one of their number would be dead, ano...



  • The Upfold Farm Mystery

    A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery

    To help make ends meet, Mr. Hillock was in the habit of renting out rooms at his farm to artistic types down in the Sussex countryside looking for a rustic retreat. He wasn’t particularly keen on art, nor...

  • The Case of the Missing Diary

    A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery

    Charles Dawnay was a devoted husband, a loving father, and an honest and successful man of business. His one quirk, if it could be called that, was that he kept a meticulous diary in which he noted every ap...

  • British Women of Mystery

    Three Full Length Novels in One!
    Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
    The Westminster Mystery by Elaine Hamilton
    The Clifford Affair by A. E. Fielding Prior to World War I, detective fiction in Britain was largely a male preserve, but in th...

  • Pointer to a Crime

    A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery!

    Chief Inspector Pointer finds himself looking into the suspected suicide of the owner of a chain of high-end hair dressing salons. The only thing suspicious about the death is a tenuous link to the earlier...

  • Murder in Suffolk

    A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery!

    When Sergeant Peel, a Scotland Yard detective goes missing while on special duty on the coast of Suffolk, Chief Inspector Pointer dispatches private inquiry agent Hugh Duncan to investigate. Duncan fails t...

  • Arsenico para Mr. Craig

    Una gran casa de campo, un millonario enfermo, su sospechoso círculo íntimo, varias cartas... y arsénico, claro.Ronald Craig envía un mensaje a su primo en el que le expresa su convicción de estar siendo envenenado. Todos en ...

  • Black Cats are Lucky

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    When Sir Henry Bachelor was found dead in his library, a bottle of poison clutched in his hand, it would have been assumed to have been a suicide, except for two facts. One, was that his most recent will was missing. The other, is that the poison t...

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A.E. Fielding has published 26 books.

A.E. Fielding does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Arsenico para Mr. Craig, was published in May 2023.

The first book by A.E. Fielding, Mystery at the Rectory, was published in November 2013.

No. A.E. Fielding does not write books in series.
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