Miss Silver Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Grey Mask | 1928 | Buy |
| The Case is Closed | 1937 | Buy |
| Lonesome Road | 1939 | Buy |
| Danger Point / In the Balance | 1941 | Buy |
| The Chinese Shawl | 1943 | Buy |
| Miss Silver Deals with Death / Miss Silver Intervenes | 1943 | Buy |
| The Clock Strikes Twelve | 1944 | Buy |
| The Key | 1944 | Buy |
| She Came Back / The Traveller Returns | 1945 | Buy |
| Pilgrim’s Rest / Dark Threat | 1946 | Buy |
| Latter End | 1947 | Buy |
| Wicked Uncle / Spotlight | 1947 | Buy |
| The Case of William Smith | 1948 | Buy |
| Eternity Ring | 1948 | Buy |
| The Catherine Wheel | 1949 | Buy |
| Miss Silver Comes to Stay | 1949 | Buy |
| The Bradling Collection / Mr Bradling’s Collection | 1950 | Buy |
| The Ivory Dagger | 1950 | Buy |
| Through The Wall | 1950 | Buy |
| ‘Anna, Where Are You?’ / Death at Deep End | 1951 | Buy |
| The Watersplash | 1951 | Buy |
| Ladies’ Bane | 1952 | Buy |
| Out of the Past | 1953 | Buy |
| The Silent Pool | 1953 | Buy |
| The Vanishing Point | 1953 | Buy |
| The Benevent Treasure | 1954 | Buy |
| The Gazebo / The Summerhouse | 1955 | Buy |
| The Listening Eye | 1955 | Buy |
| Poison in the Pen | 1955 | Buy |
| The Fingerprint | 1956 | Buy |
| The Alington Inheritance | 1958 | Buy |
| The Girl in the Cellar | 1961 | Buy |
The Miss Silver series is a long-running collection of mystery novels that began with Grey Mask in 1928. The series features Miss Maud Silver as a retired governess turned private detective, and the books follow her as she works through cases involving family secrets, inheritances, and murder. After a gap following the first book, the series picked up steadily from 1937 onward, with The Case is Closed and Lonesome Road arriving before the 1940s.
The bulk of the series came out during the 1940s and 1950s, with multiple titles published per year in some cases. Books like The Clock Strikes Twelve, Pilgrim’s Rest, and Poison in the Pen are among the many entries from that prolific stretch. The final book in the series, The Girl in the Cellar, was published in 1961, bringing the total to 32 novels spread over more than three decades. Many of these books have alternate titles depending on the edition, which is common for mysteries from this era.