Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Thin Woman | 1984 | Dorothy Cannell | Buy |
| 2 | The Widow’s Club | 1988 | Dorothy Cannell | Buy |
| 3 | Mum’s the Word | 1990 | Dorothy Cannell | Buy |
| 4 | Femmes Fatal | 1992 | Dorothy Cannell | Buy |
| 5 | How to Murder Your Mother-In-Law | 1994 | Dorothy Cannell | Buy |
| 6 | How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams | 1995 | Dorothy Cannell | Buy |
| 7 | The Spring Cleaning Murders | 1998 | Dorothy Cannell | Buy |
| 8 | The Trouble with Harriet | 1999 | Dorothy Cannell | Buy |
| 9 | Bridesmaids Revisited | 2000 | Dorothy Cannell | Buy |
| 10 | The Importance of Being Ernestine | 2002 | Dorothy Cannell | Buy |
| 11 | Withering Heights | 2007 | Dorothy Cannell | Buy |
| 12 | Goodbye, Ms. Chips | 2008 | Dorothy Cannell | Buy |
| 13 | She Shoots to Conquer | 2009 | Dorothy Cannell | Buy |
The Ellie Haskell Mystery series by Dorothy Cannell spans twenty-five years, opening with The Thin Woman in 1984 and ending with She Shoots to Conquer in 2009. Thirteen books in total, the series has a long middle stretch of titles — from Mum’s the Word and Femmes Fatal through the How to Murder books in the mid-nineties — before picking back up with The Spring Cleaning Murders in 1998.
The later books, including Withering Heights, Goodbye, Ms. Chips, and She Shoots to Conquer, arrive close together between 2007 and 2009, finishing off the series at a quicker pace than the gaps in the middle years. Reading in order from The Thin Woman is the way to get the most out of Ellie’s long-running story.