Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Brit-pulp! |
1999 |
Buy |
| 12 Days: A Modern Twist on The Twelve Days of Christmas |
2000 |
N/A |
| Tart Noir |
2003 |
Buy |
| Exquisite Corpse |
2013 |
Buy |
| Doctor Who: Time Trips |
2014 |
Buy |
| 33 East |
2015 |
Buy |
| Invisible Blood |
2019 |
Buy |
| Furies |
2023 |
Buy |
Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Everything Is Moving, Everything Is Joined |
2013 |
Buy |
Comma Singles Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Fewer Things |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Cave |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Skirt |
2012 |
Buy |
| Hitting Trees with Sticks |
2012 |
Buy |
| Crosswords |
2013 |
Buy |
| A Wolf |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Truth |
2013 |
Buy |
| Sports Leader |
2013 |
Buy |
| Earthquakes |
2013 |
Buy |
| Tamagotchi |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Truck to Berlin |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Virgin and the Soldier |
2013 |
Buy |
| Red Enters the Eye |
2013 |
Buy |
| An Industrial Evolution |
2013 |
Buy |
| Mr Carlton |
2013 |
Buy |
| A Paris Story |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Bicycle Express |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Flight into Egypt |
2013 |
Buy |
| Abulafia |
2013 |
Buy |
| Everything Is Moving, Everything Is Joined |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Pitch |
2013 |
Buy |
| Morphogenesis |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Heart of Denis Noble |
2013 |
Buy |
| What Kind of Dog |
2013 |
Buy |
| Crystal Night |
2013 |
Buy |
| My Soul to Keep |
2017 |
Buy |
| Red Lights |
2017 |
Buy |
| Many Years Ago, I Was Standing In A Meydan |
2017 |
Buy |
| The War of All Against All |
2017 |
Buy |
| Easy on The Rose’s |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Pardon List |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Mastiff |
2018 |
Buy |
| Heavy Clay Soil: A story from the Midlands Rising |
2018 |
Buy |
| A Fiery Flag Unfurled in Coleman Street |
2018 |
Buy |
| Trying Lydia |
2018 |
Buy |
| Banner Bright |
2018 |
Buy |
| Kick-Start: A story on the National Blind March |
2018 |
Buy |
| For the Tape |
2018 |
Buy |
| There Are Five Ways Out Of This Room |
2018 |
Buy |
| Spun |
2018 |
Buy |
| Rivers of Blood |
2018 |
Buy |
| May Hobbs |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Stars are in the Sky |
2018 |
Buy |
| Exterior Paint |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Beckhams are in Betty’s |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Opposite of Drowning |
2018 |
Buy |
| Never Going Underground |
2018 |
Buy |
| Conrad Street |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Turd Tree |
2018 |
Buy |
| Expectant Management |
2018 |
Buy |
| Withen |
2018 |
Buy |
| Bed 45 |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Poison Tree |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Abandoned Person’s Tale |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Gardens of Babylon |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Widening Gyre |
2018 |
Buy |
| Kindling |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Sea-God |
2018 |
Buy |
| Into Tiny Pieces |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Hare’s Declaration |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Birds of Kipsala Island |
2018 |
Buy |
| Bird of Paradise |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Slow Man |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Beginner’s Guide to Smuggling |
2018 |
Buy |
| Storyteller |
2018 |
Buy |
| Return Ticket |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Child in the Lock |
2018 |
Buy |
| Benzene Dreams |
2018 |
Buy |
| From Above |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Tank |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Biggest Bridge in the World |
2018 |
Buy |
| Inertia |
2018 |
Buy |
| Flypaper |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Dependant’s Tale |
2018 |
Buy |
| Testicular Cancer vs. the Behemoth |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Appellant’s Tale |
2018 |
Buy |
| Change for Low Rixham |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Lover’s Tale |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Sayer of the Sooth |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Longhand Option |
2019 |
Buy |
| Passing |
2019 |
Buy |
| Living in Hope |
2021 |
Buy |
Doctor Who: Time Trips Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Death Pit |
2013 |
Buy |
| Into the Nowhere |
2014 |
Buy |
| Keeping Up with the Joneses |
2014 |
Buy |
| Salt of the Earth |
2014 |
Buy |
| A Handful of Stardust |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Bog Warrior |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Anti-Hero |
2014 |
Buy |
Empress Theodora Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Theodora |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Purple Shroud |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Purple Shroud: A Novel of Empress Theodora |
2012 |
N/A |
Roderick Alleyn Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Man Lay Dead |
1934 |
Buy |
| Enter a Murder |
1935 |
N/A |
| Enter a Murderer |
1935 |
Buy |
| The Nursing Home Murder |
1935 |
Buy |
| Death in Ecstasy |
1936 |
Buy |
| Mort en extase |
1936 |
N/A |
| Vintage Murder |
1937 |
Buy |
| Artists in Crime |
1938 |
Buy |
| Death in a White Tie |
1938 |
Buy |
| Overture to Death |
1939 |
Buy |
| Death at the Bar |
1940 |
Buy |
| Death of a Peer / Surfeit of Lampreys |
1940 |
Buy |
| Death of a peer |
1940 |
N/A |
| Death and the Dancing Footman |
1941 |
Buy |
| Colour Scheme |
1943 |
Buy |
| Died in the Wool |
1945 |
Buy |
| Final Curtain |
1947 |
Buy |
| A Wreath for Rivera / Swing, Brother, Swing |
1949 |
Buy |
| Swing, Brother, Swing |
1949 |
N/A |
| Night at the Vulcan / Opening Night |
1951 |
Buy |
| Opening Night |
1951 |
N/A |
| Spinsters In Jeopardy / The Bride of Death |
1953 |
Buy |
| Spinsters in Jeopardy |
1953 |
N/A |
| Scales of Justice |
1955 |
Buy |
| Death Of A Fool |
1956 |
N/A |
| Death of a Fool / Off With His Head |
1956 |
Buy |
| Singing in the Shrouds |
1958 |
Buy |
| False Scent |
1959 |
Buy |
| Hand in Glove |
1962 |
Buy |
| Dead Water |
1963 |
Buy |
| Killer Dolphin |
1966 |
N/A |
| Killer Dolphin / Death at the Dolphin |
1966 |
Buy |
| Clutch of Constables |
1968 |
Buy |
| Murharisteily |
1968 |
N/A |
| When in Rome |
1970 |
Buy |
| Tied Up in Tinsel |
1971 |
Buy |
| Chiricahua |
1972 |
N/A |
| Black As He’s Painted |
1973 |
Buy |
| Last Ditch |
1976 |
Buy |
| A Grave Mistake |
1978 |
Buy |
| Photo Finish |
1980 |
Buy |
| Light Thickens |
1982 |
Buy |
| Alleyn and Others / The Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh |
1989 |
Buy |
| Still Unsolved |
1990 |
Buy |
| Money in the Morgue |
2018 |
Buy |
Saz Martin Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Calendar Girl |
1994 |
Buy |
| Wavewalker |
1996 |
Buy |
| Beneath the Blonde |
1997 |
Buy |
| Fresh Flesh |
1999 |
Buy |
| Mouths of Babes |
2005 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Come Away with Me |
2013 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Singling Out The Couples |
1998 |
Buy |
| Eating Cake |
1999 |
Buy |
| Immaculate Conceit |
2001 |
Buy |
| State of Happiness |
2004 |
Buy |
| Parallel Lies |
2005 |
Buy |
| The Room of Lost Things |
2008 |
Buy |
| London Lies Beneath |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Hidden Room |
2017 |
Buy |
Stella Duffy is a prolific author with over 160 published works spanning multiple genres. Her Saz Martin series (five crime novels from 1994 to 2005) follows a private investigator through cases starting with Calendar Girl. Her Empress Theodora novels, beginning with Theodora (2010), are set in the Byzantine Empire. She also completed Money in the Morgue (2018), the final novel in the Roderick Alleyn detective series originally created by Ngaio Marsh.
Beyond her series work, Duffy has written eight standalone novels including Singling Out The Couples (1998), The Room of Lost Things (2008), and London Lies Beneath (2016). She is a major contributor to the Comma Singles short story series with 82 entries, and has contributed to numerous anthologies. Her work with Doctor Who: Time Trips and various literary anthologies shows her range across genres.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Stella Duffy written?
Stella Duffy has written 161 books across nine series.
What was Stella Duffy's first book?
Stella Duffy’s first book is A Man Lay Dead, published in 1934.
What are Stella Duffy's main series?
Stella Duffy’s main original series are the Saz Martin crime novels (5 books starting with Calendar Girl in 1994) and the Empress Theodora historical novels (starting with Theodora in 2010). She also completed the final Roderick Alleyn novel left unfinished by Ngaio Marsh.