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Mrs. Bradley Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Mrs. Bradley books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Mrs. Bradley series? Start with "A Speedy Death" (1929) and follow publication order through all 66 books.
The complete Mrs. Bradley reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
A Speedy Death
1929
The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop
1929
The Longer Bodies
1930
The Saltmarsh Murders
1932
Death at the Opera / Death in the Wet
1934
The Devil at Saxon Wall
1935
Dead Men's Morris / Death Comes at Christmas
1936
Come Away, Death
1937
St Peter's Finger
1938
Printer's Error
1939
Brazen Tongue
1940
Hangman's Curfew
1941
When Last I Died
1941
Laurels Are Poison
1942
The Worsted Viper
1943
Sunset Over Soho
1943
My Father Sleeps
1944
The Rising of the Moon
1945
Here Comes a Chopper
1946
Death and the Maiden
1947
The Dancing Druids
1948
Tom Brown's Body
1949
Groaning Spinney / Murder in the Snow
1950
The Devil's Elbow
1951
The Echoing Strangers
1952
Merlin's Furlong
1953
Faintley Speaking
1954
Watson's Choice
1955
Twelve Horses and the Hangman's Noose
1956
The Twenty-Third Man
1957
Spotted Hemlock
1958
The Man Who Grew Tomatoes
1959
Say It with Flowers
1960
Nodding Canaries
1961
My Bones Will Keep
1962
Adders on the Heath
1963
Death of a Delft Blue
1964
Pageant of Murder
1965
The Croaking Raven
1966
Skeleton Island
1967
Three Quick and Five Dead
1968
Dance to Your Daddy
1969
Gory Dew
1970
Lament for Leto
1971
A Hearse on May-Day
1972
The Murder of Busy Lizzie
1973
A Javelin for Jonah
1974
Winking at the Brim
1974
Convent on Styx
1975
Late, Late in the Evening
1976
Noonday and Night
1977
Fault in the Structure
1977
Wraiths and Changelings
1978
Mingled with Venom
1978
Nest of Vipers
1979
The Mudflats of the Dead
1979
Uncoffin'd Clay
1980
The Whispering Knights
1980
The Death Cap Dancers
1981
Lovers, Make Moan
1981
Here Lies Gloria Mundy
1982
Death of a Burrowing Mole
1982
The Greenstone Griffins
1983
Cold, Lone, and Still
1983
No Winding-Sheet
1984
The Crozier Pharaohs
1984
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