Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Glass Sided Ant’s Nest / Skin Deep | 1968 | Peter Dickinson | Buy |
| 2 | The Old English Peep Show / A Pride of Heroes | 1969 | Peter Dickinson | Buy |
| 3 | The Seals | 1970 | Peter Dickinson | N/A |
| 4 | The Sinful Stones / The Seals | 1970 | Peter Dickinson | Buy |
| 5 | Sleep and His Brother | 1971 | Peter Dickinson | Buy |
| 6 | The Travels of Marco Polo | 1298 | Peter Dickinson | N/A |
| 7 | The Lizard in the Cup | 1972 | Peter Dickinson | Buy |
| 8 | One Foot in the Grave | 1979 | Peter Dickinson | Buy |
The Jimmy Pibble series is a sequence of detective novels by Peter Dickinson (1927-2015), following Scotland Yard Superintendent James Pibble. Dickinson was the first crime novelist to win the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for two consecutive novels: Skin Deep (also titled The Glass-Sided Ants’ Nest) in 1968 and A Pride of Heroes (also titled The Old English Peep Show) in 1969. The series ran for six novels through 1979, ending with One Foot in the Grave.
Pibble is not a typical detective. He takes on strange and unusual cases, and the novels are known for their inventive plotting and literary quality. Many of the books were published under different titles in the UK and US. Dickinson was also a prolific children’s book author who won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children’s Award twice each. The Pibble mysteries, however, were written for adult readers and remain some of the most distinctive British crime fiction of the 1960s and 1970s.