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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1977
  • Latest Book:
    June 2008
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Full Series List in Order

Helen Markham

1 - Whoever I Am (Jan-1983)
2 - Playing Safe (1985)

Neil Carter

1 - Curtain Fall (1977)
2 - Drink This (1980)
3 - Trio in Three Flats (Sep-1981)
4 - There Was a Little Girl (1984)
5 - A Nice Little Business (Nov-1987)

Phyllida Moon

1 - Now You See Her (Dec-1995)
2 - The Verdict on Winter (Mar-1996)
5 - Closing Stages (May-2001)

Book List in Order: 25 titles



  • Joanna Stuart had once seen the window of a seaside hotel room when driving past with her husband. Its offer of peace and independence stayed with her and several years later, at a crisis point in her life, she compulsively returns to 'the Window'. B...




  • 'Antique dealer by the name of Peter Shaw,' said the Chief. 'Found dead this morning.' From a heart attack, or from the manual strangulation which had accompanied it? A complex problem, especially when Shaw's estranged love Hilary is Detective-Inspec...





  • Sue Halliday has spent the first sixteen years of her life appearing in Festival TV's long-running programme The House that Jack Built. Infatuated with her co-star Ralph Boyd, she documents her feelings in a private diary, never thinking that it coul...




  • Autumn in a seaside town, and four young girls are found strangled. Each body bears the 'signature' of a killer whom the media soon dub the Monster, and Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Kendrick is driven by his sense of outrage into obsessive ...









  • The events of Eileen Dewhurst's suspense novel are seen through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Angela Canford. She is intelligent but a bit awkward and very unsophisticated, the only child of rich and over-protective parents.

    At the theatre she...




  • Bob and Barbara, Jack and Caroline. Two happily married couples who have been great friends for so long. But all is not what it seems. For Barbara does not know that when Bob stays overnight with Jack and Caroline, Jack is never there.But, one night,...





  • After fleeing London and her failed marriage, the Channel Island of Guernsey had felt like an escape to paradise for vet Anna Weston. With a new post as junior partner in a St Peter Port veterinary practice, and a new love in Guernseyman, Detective I...



  • When friends Maggie and Carol disappear while on a seaside jaunt, their husbands turn to the Peter Piper Detective Agency for help. But the missing persons case suddenly turns deadly serious: a resident's complain of scavenging foxes leads to the rem...



  • Phyllida Moon has to abandon any plans of a restful holiday with the love of her life in favour of an emergency operation. But Inspector Kendrick takes advantage of her need for convalescence to ask her to investigate some suspiciously premature deat...



  • When PI Phyllida Moon returns to Seaminster after a trip to Scotland which changed her personal life for ever, the Peter Piper Detective Agency has a nice little job ready and waiting for her. Hugh Jordan is suspicious about just how many late night ...






  • 'The only difference between me and other people,' said Gwen, 'is that I carry my sanity separately. It lives in the country, and paints, and suffers fools.' When Gwen goes to the country to visit her beloved twin sister, Elizabeth, she is found stab...



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    Charles De Garde is a man who doesn't have a care in the world. Partner in a prestigious Guernsey law firm, highly respected in the local community, a contented marriage to a wife who happily tolerates his string of affairs - what more could he ask f...



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    Even before Tim Le Page and his new wife, Anna, can leave for their honeymoon, he is called back to investigate an attempted murder. But this is no ordinary case, the victim is Tim's mother. Drifting from one lover to another, Lorna has never been ...



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    Returning from several months spent filming her lead role in a brand new TV detective series, Phyllida Moon as misgivings about how she will be received at the Peter Piper Detective Agency. But she has no need to worry - she's welcomed back with open...



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    Seduced by the spring sunshine, PI Phyllida Moon takes an uncharacteristic risk and goes out shopping in Seaminster - for once with no disguise. Just as she hands over a repair to the owner of the local jewellers, two armed robbers enter the shop and...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Eileen Dewhurst has published 25 books.

Eileen Dewhurst does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death Came Smiling, was published in June 2008.

The first book by Eileen Dewhurst, Curtain Fall, was published in January 1977.

Yes. Eileen Dewhurst has 3 series.