50 Things You Should Know About . . . Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| 50 Things You Should Know About The Tudors |
2004 |
Buy |
| 50 Things You Should Know about Fierce Creatures |
2004 |
Buy |
| 50 Things You Should Know About The First World War |
2014 |
Buy |
| 50 Things You Should Know About the Second World War |
2015 |
Buy |
| 50 Things You Should Know About The Human Body |
2015 |
Buy |
| 50 Things You Should Know About the Environment |
2016 |
Buy |
Black Ops Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Jungle Kill |
2010 |
Buy |
| Death in the Desert |
2010 |
Buy |
| Urban Assassin |
2011 |
Buy |
Bug Club Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Soppy Hoppy |
2001 |
Buy |
| Bug Boy - Spider Camp! |
2001 |
Buy |
| Bug Boy - Slug Picnic |
2002 |
Buy |
| Pompom Pets |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Moon Monsters Get Lost |
2002 |
Buy |
| Sid Did it |
2002 |
Buy |
| Rat and Cat - The Dance |
2004 |
Buy |
| Slug Picnic |
2004 |
Buy |
| Get a Parrot |
2007 |
Buy |
| A Little Green Monster |
2007 |
Buy |
| Keeping a Pet |
2007 |
Buy |
| Giant George & the Robin |
2008 |
Buy |
| Boring, Boring |
2008 |
Buy |
| Babysitting Barney |
2008 |
Buy |
| The Trout Fishing Song |
2008 |
Buy |
| Rat and Cat - The Hat! |
2008 |
Buy |
| Dig Sid Dig |
2009 |
Buy |
| Beetle Cookies |
2009 |
Buy |
| One-Way Ticket to Mars |
2009 |
Buy |
| Little Red Riding Hoody |
2010 |
Buy |
| Spider Camp |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Not-So-Merry-Go-Round |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Bop |
2010 |
Buy |
| A Rat and Cat in the Hat Trick |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Quiz Went Fizz! |
2010 |
Buy |
| Let’s Rock |
2011 |
Buy |
| Sid and the Boxer Pup |
2011 |
Buy |
| Butterfly Pie |
2011 |
Buy |
| Sea Fishing |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Runaway T |
2011 |
Buy |
| Step Inside a Story |
2012 |
Buy |
| Tyrannosaurus Drip |
2012 |
Buy |
| Plays to Act Tiddler |
2012 |
Buy |
| Flash the Dog Dives In! |
2012 |
Buy |
| Changing Places |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Dragon’s Tale and Other Beastly Stories |
2012 |
Buy |
| Machines on the Move |
2012 |
Buy |
| Swoop Flies South |
2012 |
Buy |
| Rat and Cat - Let’s Jump |
2012 |
Buy |
| Missing Milly |
2013 |
Buy |
| Goha and the Shoes |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Best Bet |
2013 |
Buy |
| Frog Fight |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Noises Next Door |
2013 |
Buy |
| Don’t Call Me Mum! |
2013 |
Buy |
| Rap-unzel |
2013 |
Buy |
| Flash the Dog Bounces In! |
2013 |
Buy |
| Big Giant, Little Bear |
2013 |
Buy |
| Goldilocks and The Clever Plan |
2013 |
Buy |
| Goldilocks and the Big Mess |
2013 |
Buy |
| Goldilocks and the Porridge Problem |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Road to Freedom |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Tree |
2017 |
Buy |
Cathedral Mysteries Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Murder at the Ritz |
2021 |
Buy |
| Murder at St Paul’s Cathedral |
2025 |
Buy |
| Murder at the Savoy |
2021 |
Buy |
| Murder at Claridge’s |
2022 |
Buy |
Chapter Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Under Attack |
2013 |
Buy |
| Gunpoint |
2016 |
Buy |
Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Monster Summer Reading Pack |
1995 |
Buy |
| Spies And Special Forces! |
2002 |
Buy |
| Second World War Stories for Boys |
2012 |
Buy |
| Daring World War Two Stories for Boys |
2013 |
Buy |
| Courageous First World War Stories |
2014 |
Buy |
DCI Paul Stark Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Assassins |
2016 |
Buy |
| Shadows of the Dead |
2017 |
Buy |
Disgusting Dave Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Disgusting Dave And The Farting Dog |
2009 |
Buy |
| Disgusting Dave And The Flesh Eating Maggots |
2010 |
Buy |
| Disgusting Dave and the Bucketful of Vomit |
2011 |
Buy |
Fantasy Soldiers Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| Death In The Jungle |
1995 |
Buy |
| Killer In The City |
1995 |
Buy |
| White Death |
1995 |
Buy |
| Plague Ship |
1995 |
Buy |
Graphic Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Captain Hawk And The Stone Of Destiny |
1997 |
Buy |
Hotel Mysteries Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Murder at the Ritz |
2021 |
Buy |
| Murder at the Savoy |
2021 |
Buy |
| Murder at Claridge’s |
2022 |
Buy |
I Was There Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| I Was There… Alone In The Trenches |
2014 |
Buy |
| Richard III |
2014 |
Buy |
| I Was There Boudica’s Army |
2015 |
Buy |
| I Was There Tutankhamun’s Tomb |
2015 |
Buy |
| 1066 |
2015 |
Buy |
| I Was There Viking Invasion |
2015 |
Buy |
| I Was There…: Ira Aldridge |
2021 |
Buy |
| On Board the Titanic |
2021 |
Buy |
London Underground Station Mysteries Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Murder at Aldwych Station |
2022 |
Buy |
| Murder at Down Street Station |
2023 |
Buy |
| Murder at Lord’s Station |
2024 |
Buy |
| Murder at Whitechapel Road Station |
2024 |
Buy |
Museum Mysteries Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| Fundraising the Dead |
2010 |
Buy |
| Murder at the Fitzwilliam |
2018 |
Buy |
| Let’s Play Dead |
2011 |
Buy |
| Murder at the British Museum |
2019 |
Buy |
| Fire Engine Dead |
2012 |
Buy |
| Murder at the Ashmolean |
2019 |
Buy |
| Monument to the Dead |
2013 |
Buy |
| Murder at the Manchester Museum |
2020 |
Buy |
| Razing the Dead |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Case of the Missing Mom |
2016 |
N/A |
| Murder at the Natural History Museum |
2020 |
Buy |
| Privy to the Dead |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Case of the Stolen Space Suit |
2016 |
N/A |
| Murder at Madame Tussauds |
2021 |
Buy |
| Dead End Street |
2016 |
Buy |
| Murder at the National Gallery |
2022 |
Buy |
| Digging Up History |
2019 |
Buy |
| Murder at the Victoria and Albert Museum |
2022 |
Buy |
| Murder at the Tower of London: The thrilling historical whodunnit |
TBD |
N/A |
| Murder at the Tower of London |
2023 |
Buy |
| Murder at the Louvre |
2023 |
Buy |
| Murder at the Colosseum |
2025 |
Buy |
Museum Mysteries Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Dead Letters |
2012 |
Buy |
My Story Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Titanic |
1992 |
Buy |
| My Story The Trenches |
1999 |
Buy |
| My Story |
2001 |
Buy |
| The Hunger |
2001 |
Buy |
| Twentieth Century Girl |
2001 |
Buy |
| The Crystal Palace |
2001 |
Buy |
| The Great Plague |
2001 |
Buy |
| The ‘45 Rising |
2001 |
Buy |
| Battle of Britain |
2002 |
Buy |
| Suffragette |
2003 |
Buy |
| Victorian Workhouse |
2004 |
Buy |
| Road to War |
2008 |
Buy |
| Sophie’s Secret War |
2009 |
Buy |
| Cadogan Square |
2010 |
Buy |
| Factory Girl |
2011 |
Buy |
| Nowhere to Run |
2012 |
Buy |
| War Spy |
2013 |
Buy |
| Victoria |
2014 |
Buy |
| Codename Céline |
2015 |
Buy |
| Coming Home |
2018 |
Buy |
| Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan |
2020 |
Buy |
| Mayflower |
2020 |
Buy |
| Princess Sophia Duleep Singh |
2022 |
Buy |
| Mary Prince |
2022 |
Buy |
My Story: Boys Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Trenches: Billy Stevens, The Western Front, 1914-1918 |
2002 |
Buy |
| Battle of Britain |
2002 |
Buy |
| Trafalgar: James Grant, HMS Norseman, 1799-1806 |
2002 |
Buy |
| Armada: Thomas Hobbs, England, 1587-1588 |
2002 |
Buy |
| Agincourt : Jenkin Lloyd, France, 1415 |
2003 |
Buy |
| Waterloo: Bob Jenkins, Royal Horse Artillery, 1814-1817 |
2003 |
Buy |
| Flying Ace: Jack Fairfax, Royal Flying Corps, 1915-1918 |
2003 |
Buy |
| D-Day: Lieutenant Andy Pope, Normandy, 1944 |
2004 |
Buy |
| Crimea: Michael Pope, 110th Regiment, 1853-1857 |
2004 |
Buy |
| Spy Smuggler: Paul Lelaud, France, 1942-1944 |
2004 |
Buy |
| Desert Danger: Tim Jackson, North Africa WWII |
2005 |
Buy |
| U-boat Hunter: Peter Rogers, HMS Arum, 1939-1945 |
2005 |
Buy |
| Roman Invasion: A British Boy, AD 84 |
2008 |
Buy |
| The Sweep’s Boy: A Victorian Boy, London, 1870 |
2010 |
Buy |
| Pyramid of Secrets |
2010 |
Buy |
| Dodger: The Story of a Victorian Pickpocket |
2011 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Funniest Joke Book |
1983 |
Buy |
| Bogeys, Boils And Bellybuttons |
1986 |
Buy |
| Save Our Planet |
1987 |
Buy |
| Holidays Survival Guide |
1989 |
Buy |
| The Complete How to Handle Grown-ups |
1991 |
Buy |
| Completely Misleading Guide to School |
1994 |
Buy |
| What Grown-Ups Say and What They Really Mean |
1994 |
Buy |
| Even More Ways to Handle Grown-ups |
1996 |
Buy |
| Warriors! True Stories Of Combat, Skill And Courage |
2001 |
Buy |
| A Canny History of Carlisle |
2006 |
Buy |
| Standing Alone |
2011 |
Buy |
| London Stories |
2012 |
Buy |
| Charles Dickens |
2012 |
Buy |
| Alan Turing |
2013 |
Buy |
| Stories of the First World War |
2014 |
Buy |
| Independence. War in Ireland |
2017 |
Buy |
Picture Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Tractor and Digger Save the Day |
1997 |
Buy |
| Tractor And Digger |
1999 |
Buy |
| Wayfarers |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Refugee Camp |
2017 |
Buy |
SAS Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Hostile Terrain |
2003 |
Buy |
| London Siege |
2003 |
Buy |
| Secret Assault |
2004 |
Buy |
| Jungle War |
2004 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Down Payment On Death |
1972 |
Buy |
| Bad Boyes |
1987 |
Buy |
| King Street Junior |
1988 |
Buy |
| Bad Boyes and the Gangsters |
1988 |
Buy |
| Monsterman |
1988 |
Buy |
| Uncle Jack and Operation Green |
1990 |
Buy |
| The Double Life of E.W.Potts, Schoolboy |
1991 |
Buy |
| Time Riders |
1991 |
Buy |
| Uncle Jack and the Loch Ness Monster |
1991 |
Buy |
| The Legend of the Lost Keys |
1998 |
Buy |
| Desert Duel |
2004 |
Buy |
| Dunkirk Escape |
2009 |
Buy |
| 4.3.2.1 |
2010 |
Buy |
| Sink the Tirpitz |
2010 |
Buy |
| Bomb! |
2011 |
Buy |
| Blood on the Wall |
2013 |
Buy |
Survivor Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Survivor: Escape from Pompeii |
2017 |
Buy |
| Survivor: Titanic |
2017 |
Buy |
The Malichea Quest Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Invisible Assassin |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Deadly Game |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Lethal Target |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Last Enemy |
2013 |
Buy |
Warpath Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Tank Attack |
1999 |
Buy |
| Deadly Skies |
1999 |
Buy |
| Behind Enemy Lines |
1999 |
Buy |
| Depth Charge Danger |
1999 |
Buy |
| Night Bomber |
2000 |
Buy |
| Island of Fear |
2000 |
Buy |
Wrestling Trolls Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Big Rock and the Masked Avenger |
2014 |
Buy |
| Hunk and Thud |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Giant Rumble |
2014 |
Buy |
| Thud in Trouble |
2015 |
Buy |
| Jack Versus Veto |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Final Showdown |
2015 |
Buy |
Jim Eldridge is one of Britain’s most prolific authors, with over 200 books spanning children’s fiction, historical novels, cozy mysteries, and non-fiction since the early 1970s. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to Scholastic’s My Story series of historical fiction for young readers, and for his Museum Mysteries and London Underground Station Mysteries cozy crime series for adult readers.
His children’s work ranges from the slapstick humor of Disgusting Dave and Wrestling Trolls to serious historical fiction covering both World Wars, the Tudor period, and beyond. For adult readers, his mystery series set in famous British museums and London landmarks combine historical detail with classic whodunit plotting. Eldridge has also written extensively for educational publishers and contributed to series like Bug Club and I Was There.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Jim Eldridge written?
Jim Eldridge has written 219 books across 25 series.
What was Jim Eldridge's first book?
Jim Eldridge’s first book is Down Payment On Death, published in 1972.
What genres does Jim Eldridge write?
Jim Eldridge writes across children’s fiction, historical fiction for young readers, cozy mysteries for adults, military adventure, and educational non-fiction.