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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2000
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Adam Harkaway

1 - The House in Holywell Street (Mar-2018)

Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne

1 - Sweet Poison (Mar-2000)
2 - The Bones of the Buried (Oct-2001)
3 - Hollow Crown (Jan-2003)
4 - Dangerous Seas (Dec-2003)
6 - The More Deceived (Nov-2004)
7 - A Grave Man (Nov-2005)
8 - The Quality of Mercy (Jan-2007)
9 - Something Wicked (Nov-2007)
10 - No More Dying (Feb-2009)

Book List in Order: 45 titles



  • It is August 1935 and the Duke of Mersham is hosting one of his influential parties, bringing together public figures interested in improving Anglo-German relations. One of his guests is General Sir Alistair Craig VC, who swallows poison in the duke'...



  • A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne.After six months in New York, Lord Edward returns to London only for his old sparring partner, Verity Browne, to convince him to investigate a murder in Madrid. Her lover, David Griffit...



  • A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne.October 1936. Joe Weaver, press magnate and close friend of the Royal family, calls for Lord Edward Corinth's help in recovering some missing letters, stolen from Wallis Simpson - the K...



  • Optioned by Columbia for a major motion picture, this new who-dunit continues the popular series. It features one of the most perfectly mismatched pairs of sleuths in British mystery fiction: the aristocratic Lord Edward Corinth and left-wing journal...



  • Bertie's family complains when he farts at the dentist's office, the museum, in the cafe, and in the playhouse, but he knows that they can be equally as stinky even though they try to hide their farts....



  • 1937. Much to the government’s embarrassment, Winston Churchill has been receiving unauthorized information on the perilous state of Britain’s rearmament program. Lord Edward Corinth is brought in by the Foreign Office to investigate the leaks, b...




  • A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne.Verity Browne and Lord Edward Corinth are attending a memorial in Westminster when the service is interrupted by a young woman's desperate cry for help. Too late, they find Maude Pitt-M...



  • When the Nazis seize Austria in March 1938, Verity Browne -- the New Gazette's correspondent in Vienna -- is one of the first to be deported as a well-known anti-Fascist. Before she leaves she is able to arrange for a young Jew, Georg Dreiser, to esc...






  • One person’s trash is another persons’s treasure in this vivid picture-book ode to creative recycling -- and to loyal friends.

    Anyone can dive for treasure in the ocean, but Steve dives for it in his neighborhood dumpster! As he delves i...





  • Verity Browne returns from Prague with tuberculosis and is sent to a private clinic -- a place with a connection to the recent murder of a dentist. Lord Edward Corinth and Verity become involved in an investigation into the mysterious deaths of three...



  • Praise for David Roberts:

    “This is first-rate fun, informed by telling period detail.” -- Publishers Weekly

    “I recommend this one heartily for history-mystery devotees.” -- Booklist

    February, 1939. Lord Edward Corinth ...



  • Meet Dirty Bertie - a boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits. He's full to bursting with madcap plans and crazy ideas, and if it's trouble you're after, look no further - Bertie's sure to be up to his neck in it....



  • At the outset of World War II, Byron Gates, a self-absorbed poet, moves out of London together with his young daughter and stepdaughter to avoid the anticipated bombing. His wife, an actress, is in the States. His acquaintance, Virginia Woolf, has fo...



  • "The Wolves and Short Stories" is a collection of work by David L. Roberts. "The Wolves" is a novella, in the tradition of Gothic suspense fiction, about four teenagers--three boys and a girl--at an isolated mansion who are plunged into mystery, horr...



  • A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne.1937. Lord Benyon is on board the Queen Mary, bound for New York, where his mission is to persuade President Roosevelt to supply Britain with arms and money, if it comes to war with Ger...



  • After a nearly fatal ambush in a Miami back alley, CIA analyst Andrew Wiley knows he needs help in his race against the clock. Wrongfully accused of espionage, Wiley is desperately struggling to elude a nationwide dragnet while targeting Alexander Vo...












  • The setting is South Africa in the early nineteen nineties - a country in transition and open to exploitation.  A prominent businessman turned politician is murdered and his death disguised as suicide. Don Keenan, a successful commercial investi...



  • With mid-term elections right around the corner, David Thomas Roberts couldn’t have timed the release of his new book any better. Patriotic to the core, and passionate about all things ‘Texas,’ this is Roberts’ second foray into the political...



  • Mr and Mrs Bold are just like you and me: they live in a nice house (in Teddington), they have jobs (like writing Christmas cracker jokes) and they love to have a bit of a giggle. One slight difference: they're hyenas. Yes, that's right - they're cov...



  • Dr. Jonas Parker Sanderson, an obstetrician and gynecologist, is shocked to find that his much admired partner is a serial rapist and a murderer. He also discovers that his partner is involved in a conspiracy to cause a national emergency by detonat...



  • The Bolds -- the hyena family successfully impersonating as humans -- have become legendary in the animal kingdom. Soon their house is full of visitors hoping to learn how to pass as humans too. There's a crocodile who can't quite tame her appetite, ...



  • Meet a truly funky, flares-clad fairy-tale heroine and a genuinely frightening villain in this hilarious re-working of a much-loved fairy tale. Poor Rapunzel can only dream about the world outside because her Aunt Edna keeps her locked up in their to...



  • A Dirty Bertie collection to delight his legions of fans who revel in his revolting ways!Enjoy the comic capers of Dirty Bertie - the boy with nosepickingly disgusting habits - in this bumper book of nine revolting stories from SMASH!, RATS! and JACK...



  • Little Red is the story of a boy, a grandmother, a big bad wolf, and a keg of delicious fizzy ginger beer. Young Thomas is known as Little Red. He lives with his parents in a cosy inn, famous for its sweet and fizzy ginger beer. Every week, Little Re...






  • Young Annabel lives in the 1950s and dreams of a future with jetpacks, flying cars and robots.  However, little does she know that she is living under an evil spell that could mean she has no future at all...When the curse is fulfilled on her 16th ...



  • Calling all Dirty Bertie fans! Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping of comic chaos! With ever-increasing madcap schemes and crazy capers, Bertie continues to delight his legions of fans, who revel...



  • Captain Adam Harkaway is wounded at Spion Kop, a famous battle in the South African or Boer War. Invalided out of the army, he returns to London in the spring of 1900, with nothing to do and no income – or, rather, he has one debt to pay. His l...



  • Part excoriation, part lamentation, Young Love unspools the psyche of a man ill at ease with modernity, "that festering malignancy." Satirical, compulsive and deeply provocative, it announces the arrival of David Roberts, a powerful new literary voic...





  • Calling all DIRTY BERTIE fans! Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping of comic chaos! With ever-increasing madcap schemes and crazy capers, Bertie continues to delight his legions of fans who revel ...



  • A Dirty Bertie collection to delight everyone who revels in his revolting ways!Enjoy the comic capers of Dirty Bertie - the boy with nosepickingly disgusting habits - in this bumper book of nine revolting stories from FAME!, HORROR! and ALIENS!Dirty ...



  • In 1941, the young Adrian Fallows joins the army hoping for a new start far away from Birmingham. A posting to the naval base in Loch Ewe, Scotland, is certainly far away but will it be that clean, new start he craves? Or does it take more than miles...





  • A humorous, stylish, and empowering retelling of three classic fairy tales

    Star illustrator David Roberts joins forces with his author sister, Lynn, for the retelling of three classic tales: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Rapunzel. These sto...










  • Amelie and Zach discover a mysterious painting in their great aunt's attic that leads them on an incredible adventure to the underworld. They encounter all sorts of strange creatures and must use their bravery and wits to navigate the treacherous ter...



  • HIS LAST MATCH DEFIED EVIL.HIS LAST DAYS REMAIN A MYSTERY. Matthias Sindelar was arguably the greatest soccer player of his generation. He won numerous trophies for his club and country, and as Captain of Austria, he led the National Team on an unpre...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Roberts has published 45 books.

David Roberts does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Mighty Mishaps, was published in July 2023.

The first book by David Roberts, Sweet Poison, was published in March 2000.

Yes. David Roberts has 2 series.