Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death at Bishop’s Keep | 1994 | Susan Wittig Albert | Buy |
| 2 | Death at Gallows Green | 1995 | Susan Wittig Albert | Buy |
| 3 | Death at Daisy’s Folly | 1997 | Susan Wittig Albert | Buy |
| 4 | Death at Devil’s Bridge | 1998 | Susan Wittig Albert | Buy |
| 5 | Death at Rottingdean | 1999 | Susan Wittig Albert | Buy |
| 6 | Death at Whitechapel | 2000 | Susan Wittig Albert | Buy |
| 7 | Death at Epsom Downs | 2001 | Susan Wittig Albert | Buy |
| 8 | Death at Dartmoor | 2002 | Susan Wittig Albert | Buy |
| 9 | Death at Glamis Castle | 2003 | Susan Wittig Albert | Buy |
| 10 | Death in Hyde Park | 2004 | Susan Wittig Albert | Buy |
| 11 | Death at Blenheim Palace | 2005 | Susan Wittig Albert | Buy |
| 12 | Death on the Lizard | 2006 | Susan Wittig Albert | Buy |
This twelve-book series was written by Susan Wittig Albert and her husband Bill Albert under the pen name Robin Paige. It follows Kathryn (Kate) Ardleigh, a free-spirited Irish-American writer of penny dreadfuls, who inherits an estate called Bishop’s Keep in Essex, England. She soon meets Sir Charles Sheridan, an amateur scientist and detective, and the two eventually marry. Together they investigate crimes across late Victorian and Edwardian England, from the mid-1890s through the early 1900s.
The series weaves in real historical figures and events. Beatrix Potter helps solve a case in one book. Jennie Jerome Churchill and her son Winston appear in another, where a blackmailer threatens the family with claims about Jack the Ripper. Other books involve real locations like Dartmoor, Epsom Downs, and the Glamis Castle. Albert and her husband researched each period setting extensively, and the historical texture is one of the series’ strongest qualities.