Marian Babson

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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1971
  • Latest Book:
    April 2012
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Full Series List in Order

Douglas Perkins

1 - Cover-Up Story (1971)
2 - Murder at the Cat Show (1972)
3 - Tourists Are for Trapping (Nov-1989)
4 - In the Teeth of Adversity (Jun-1990)

Eve Sinclair & Trixie Dolan

1 - Reel Murder (Feb-1987)
2 - Encore Murder (Sep-1990)
3 - Shadows in Their Blood (May-1993)
4 - Even Yuppies Die (1993)
5 - Break a Leg, Darlings (1995)
6 - No Co-operation from the Cat (Apr-2012)

Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • Cover-Up Story

    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    Douglas Perkins - 1

    It’s curtains for an interfering stage mother in this “frothy, funny” mystery from an Agatha Award"winning author (Kirkus Reviews).   London public relations firm Perkins & Tate has a potentially lucrative new client: the American co...

  • Murder at the Cat Show

    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    Douglas Perkins - 2

    MRS. CHESNE-MALVERN overbearing organizer of London's prestigious Cats Through the Ages Exhibition. ROGER adulterous and allergic, the luckless Mr. Chesne-Malvern. HUGO hot-tempered artist, creator of the Exhibition's most celebrated cat -- ...

  • Pretty Lady

    DEATH STALKS THE INNOCENT Unable to solve her problems on her own, driven by unhappiness and her fading beauty, Merelda had to find someone to free her from her wretched marriage--someone just like Denny. The handsome, slow-witted son of a bele...

  • The Stalking Lamb

  • Unfair Exchange

  • Murder Sails at Midnight

    Murder pursues four wealthy women sailing from New York to Genoa aboard an Italian luxury liner--the imperious Mrs. Abercombie; her nurse, Valerie Meadows; career woman Gloria Grandi Pontini; and English heiress Susan Emery<...

  • There Must Be Some Mistake

    BEARER BEWARE Karen was feeling as fragile as one of the clay pieces she designed for her husband's handicraft company. And her husband was why. Gone to Brussels for a business trip, John--and his secretary--had disappeared, leaving Karen gripped ...

  • Untimely Guest

    ELEANOR & CARMEL They'd both married into the same family. Consequently, they were detached, the only ones capable of seeing the terrible truth.... BRIDIE Uninvited, unwanted, expelled from the convent, she came home to sister-in-law Eleanor ad ...

  • The Lord Mayor of Death

    PRESENTING THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. SOON TO BE DECEASED. "Call me Da," Uncle Mike urged Kitty, and since he had bought her a pretty new red lunch box, and since they were going to the new Lord Mayor of London's parade, Kitty would call him "Da" B...



  • Murder, Murder, Little Star

    Twinkle--she was a child star who wore dark glasses, a sable coat, and an expression that drove her co-workers mad. She was only ten, but her cruel jokes and violent tantrums had made enough enemies to last her a lifetime. Her aging costar, her bankr...

  • Tightrope for Three

  • So Soon Done For

  • The Twelve Deaths of Christmas

    All London was dreaming of a white Christmas, but somewhere on the West End a killer was dreaming of bloody murder. Already dead was a solicitor in Middle Temple, a newsagent in Upper Soho, and two tots in Regent's Park Lake. As the holiday grew clos...

  • Dangerous to Know

    MURDER DAMPENS THE HECTIC CLATTER OF A METROPOLITAN NEWSROOM Lightning uncharacteristically strikes the same place again and again in this suspenseful story of life--and death--at the offices of the London Evening Record. Acting Managing Editor T...

  • Queue Here for Murder

  • Line Up for Murder

    IT WAS THE SALE OF THE CENTURY. AND MURDER WAS GOING CHEAP. The anxious buyers lining up in front of Bonnard's department store were bursting with anticipation even though the doors would not be opened for days. But with the New Year's festivities...

  • Bejewelled Death

  • Death Warmed Up

  • Death Beside the Seaside

    DID YOU SEE THIS GIRL? An unidentified woman's body washes onto the shore of the seaside resort town where Trudi Kane works as a nightclub singer. Could her frightening fan, the "Starer," be involved? As the Bank Holiday approaches and tensions ...



  • A Fool for Murder

    THERE'S NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD FOOL. OR A DEAD ONE. It's a house of fools. Thirty-five-year-old Tamar acts more like six-teen, accompanied by her boyfriend, an adolescent "Toy Boy" who has his own reason for partaking of the Creighleighs' hospitality...

  • Cruise of a Death Time

    CROSS THE OCEAN BLUE. IF YOU CAN GET THERE ALIVE. Welcome to the Empress Josephine and a transoceanic experience of good food, lavish entertainment, fun, and surprises--lots of surprises. The first comes when a key officer fails to make the saili...

  • A Trail of Ashes

  • Death Swap

  • Death in Fashion

    DECEMO daring and detested--London's hippest young designer SUNNY high cheekbones and ambitions--Decemo's in-house model JAKE well meaning and well connected--her paramour and manager REBA jilted and jealous -- Sunny's competition THE...

  • Reel Murder

    Eve Sinclair & Trixie Dolan - 1

    EVANGELINE silver screen queen of yesteryear--in her heyday, Eve "put the sin into cinema." At her retrospective, she's a prime murder suspect. TRIXIE for years, Eve's on-screen sidekick--now her partner in crime-cracking. BEAUREGARD Eve's ...

  • Murder on a Mystery Tour

    The “consistently witty” Agatha Award"winning author presents a tale of murder in a country mansion (Mystery News).   With their fortunes dwindling, Reggie and his wife, Midge, have turned the family mansion into an English country inn. Wh...

  • Tourists Are for Trapping

    Douglas Perkins - 3

    A troupe of travelers in London may harbor a killer in this novel from an Agatha Award"winning author praised for her “wit and whimsy” (Kirkus Reviews).   A group of tourists has arrived in London -- shaken by the mysterious death of one o...

  • In the Teeth of Adversity

    Douglas Perkins - 4

    A dentist’s office becomes a crime scene: “Uproarious . . . a hilarious cast of characters . . . sparkling comedy” (Publishers Weekly).   Endicott Zayle is a dentist to the rich and famous -- as well as to public relati...

  • Encore Murder

    Eve Sinclair & Trixie Dolan - 2

    Old rivalries result in murder when Evangeline Sinclair's old acting adversary, Griselda von Kirstenburg, announces her intention to write her memoirs, which will feature unflattering portrayals of Evangeline and Trixie Dolan, and steal the thunder o...



  • Fatal Fortune

    EUROPE ON $50 A DAY. MURDER GRATIS. Dingy hotels with pushy concierges were not Hope Bradstone's idea of acceptable accommodations. But then again, running of to Brussels at the drop of a hat was hardly acceptable, either--especially when Hope's...

  • Guilty Party

    SHE TOOK THE GARDENER'S HOUSE, SOMEONE ELSE TOOK HIS LIFE. Leonora could not be a party to this. No, it was one thing for her oddball neighbors in their quaint English village to ignore her requests for privacy, to interrupt her painting sessions,...

  • Past Regret

    A TIME TO REMEMBER, OR DIE Through the mists of London's waterfront a young woman staggers, unable to remember who she is or how she got here. Across the Atlantic a career housewife boards an airplane, certain that her child is in trouble. For bot...

  • Even Yuppies Die

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    Eve Sinclair & Trixie Dolan - 4

    Trixie Dolan and Evangeline Sinclair, Babson's feisty elderly heroines, are back, just as bickering, inquisitive, and delightful as ever. The two former film stars are at leisure (temporarily, of course) but they have, again of course, expectations o...

  • Shadows in Their Blood

    Eve Sinclair & Trixie Dolan - 3

    Trixie Dolan and Evangeline Sinclair are starring in a new Dracula film, but when the weather turns foul during the tense shooting, Trixie and Evangeline are suspected of being real vampires and murder makes a cameo appearance...

  • Nine Lives to Murder

    MURDER AND MEOWHEM... When Winstanley Fortescue, titan of the English stage and a notorious tomcatter, falls off a ladder onto the backstage cat Montmorency D. Mousa, man and feline are catapulted into each other's body. Win prowls the theater wit...

  • Break a Leg, Darlings

    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    Eve Sinclair & Trixie Dolan - 5

  • The Diamond Cat

    THE CAT WHO SWALLOWED MORE THAN A CANARY... A lifetime of craving more cuddly companionship than her hectoring mother has led fortyish Bettina Bilby to board her neighbors' felines for a long' holiday weekend: an expectant tabby, a pampered blue-e...

  • Whiskers and Smoke

    WHILE THE CAT'S WAY, A FIRE STARTER PLAYS... After the tragic death of her husband, British housewife Rosemary Blake accepts a summer house and cat exchange across the Atlantic in her sister's adopted town of Edgemarsh Lake, New Hampshire. Lulled ...

  • Canapes for the Kitties

    DEAD WRITERS TELL NO TAILS... The cat's out of the bag: dead bodies are piling up in Brimful Coffers, a picturesque English village. Among the deceased is Boswell, a pet white rat. His killers were caught: Had-I and But-Known, two mischievous feli...



  • Paws for Alarm

    A WHISKER AWAY FROM DEATH... A summer in England sounds like a great idea for the Harper family--and the house exchange makes it so affordable. Now they've swapped their New England home for a lovely cottage in a village near London. Why, the hous...

  • The Company of Cats

    A PURRFECT MURDER... When millionaire Arthur Arbuthnot mistakes gossip maven Annabel Hinchby-Smythe for a decorator--and hires her to redecorate his apartment--the fiscally challenged Annabel can't refuse. When she sees Arbuthnot's tatty London fl...

  • To Catch a Cat

    PAWS FOR CAT-ASTROPHC... Eleven-year-old Robin wants to join a popular gang at school. They'll accept him, though only if he kidnaps the prize-winning cat of old Mrs. Nordling first. But when Robin sneaks into the Nordlings' house in the dark o...

  • The Cat Next Door

    A suspenseful tale of murder and mystery in a dysfunctional British family: “Babson is as easy to read as ever” (Kirkus Reviews).   Margot has come back to England from America to show solidarity with her extended family in the midst of a sc...

  • The Cat Who Wasn't a Dog

    A PURRFECT CRIME! Dame Cecile Savoy's "revolting floor mop" of a Pekinese has passed away at a ripe old age. Now, the aging British actress convinces her rivals on stage and screen, Trixie and Evangeline, to support her in her hour of grief...by a...

  • Not Quite a Geisha

    Evangeline Sinclair and Trixie Dolan, long-time stars of stage, screen and, er, television (well, being the voice of Tallulah, the tap-dancing cartoon cat ought to count!) have temporarily shelved their search for a suitable starring vehicle to stand...

  • Please Do Feed The Cat

    Author Lorinda Lucas returns from a book tour of the United States to find that Roscoe, the cat who lives next door, is in alarming shape. Hoping that whatever has hit poor Roscoe will not be caught by her two cats, Had-I and But-Known, she learns fr...

  • Only the Cat Knows

    A Case of Feline Intuition Vanessa and her twin brother Vance are very close. So when someone pushes Vanessa down a flight of stairs and puts her into a coma, Vance wants revenge. He decides that masquerading as Vanessa will lead him to the villain....

  • No Co-operation from the Cat

    Eve Sinclair & Trixie Dolan - 6

    Trixie's daughter Martha has taken up residence in the kitchen she shares with her friend Evangeline. Martha is frantically testing last-minute recipes to meet the deadline for her cookbook, helped by Jocasta, her overworked editor. When a strange ma...

  • Deadly Deceit

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  • The Multiple Cat

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    The latest in Marian Babson's delightfully dippy series of mysteries where bitchiness, gossip and cats are centre stage. When Annabel Hinchby-Smythe is mistaken for a top interior designer and invited to redecorate a reclusive millionaire's London f...

  • A Tealeaf in the Mouse

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    All Robin wanted to do was be a part of the gang and his big test was to steal a rich lady''s precious cat. But now he has been witness to a horrible murder and he''s not sure whether Mr Nording saw his face or not.'...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Marian Babson has published 51 books.

Marian Babson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, No Co-operation from the Cat, was published in April 2012.

The first book by Marian Babson, Cover-Up Story, was published in January 1971.

Yes. Marian Babson has 2 series.
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