Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arsenic with Austen | 2016 | Katherine Bolger Hyde | Buy |
| 2 | Bloodstains with Bronte | 2017 | Katherine Bolger Hyde | Buy |
| 3 | Cyanide with Christie | 2019 | Katherine Bolger Hyde | Buy |
| 4 | Death with Dostoevsky | 2019 | Katherine Bolger Hyde | Buy |
| 5 | Fatality with Forster | 2021 | Katherine Bolger Hyde | Buy |
| 6 | Hanging with Hugo | 2024 | Katherine Bolger Hyde | Buy |
The Crime With The Classics series by Katherine Bolger Hyde pairs each book’s crime story with a literary classic, starting with Arsenic with Austen in 2016. The naming pattern — Bloodstains with Bronte, Cyanide with Christie, Death with Dostoevsky, Fatality with Forster, Hanging with Hugo — runs all the way through the series, with each title pairing a method of death or crime with the name of a famous author.
Six books in total span from 2016 to 2024, with gaps of one to three years between entries. The series is in the crime fiction tradition of recurring characters and ongoing mysteries, so reading from Arsenic with Austen onward gives the best experience of how the characters and their world develop over the eight-year run.