Order of Dorothy Cannell Books

Dorothy Cannell is an English-American author of cozy mystery novels. She writes the Ellie Haskell series. Dorothy grew up in London and moved to the United States in 1963 when she was twenty years old. Dorothy and her husband Julian have four children and ten grandchildren. They live in Belfast, Maine.

Dorothy Cannell became a published author in 1984 with the novel The Thin Woman, which was the start of her Ellie Haskell series. The novel was listed as one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Twentieth Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Below is a list of Dorothy Cannell’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Ellie Haskell Mystery Books

The Thin Woman	(1984)
The Widow's Club	(1988)
Mum's the Word	(1990)
Femmes Fatal	(1992)
How to Murder Your Mother-In-Law	(1994)
How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams	(1995)
The Spring Cleaning Murders	(1998)
The Trouble with Harriet	(1999)
Bridesmaids Revisited	(2000)
The Importance of Being Ernestine	(2002)
Withering Heights	(2007)
Goodbye, Ms. Chips	(2008)
She Shoots to Conquer	(2009)

Publication Order of Tessa Fields Books

Down the Garden Path

(1985)

Publication Order of Florence Norris Books

Murder at Mullings	(2014)
Death at Dovecote Hatch	(2015)
Peril in the Parish	(2022)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

God Save the Queen!	(1997)
Sea Glass Summer	(2012)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Family Jewels And Other Stories

(2001)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The High Cost of Living	(1990)
The January Sales Stowaway	(1991)
The Family Jewels	(1994)
Cupid’s Arrow	(1995)

Publication Order of Sisters in Crime Books

Sisters in Crime	(1989)
Sisters in Crime 2	(1990)
Sisters in Crime 3	(1990)
Sisters in Crime 4	(1991)
Sisters In Crime 5	(1992)
Anthology series.

Publication Order of Anthologies

Sisters in Crime 3	(1990)
Christmas Stalkings	(1991)
Malice Domestic 3	(1994)
Funny Bones: 15 New Tales of Murder and Mayhem	(1997)
Naked Came the Farmer	(1998)
Crafty Cat Crimes	(2000)
Malice Domestic 9	(2000)
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2	(2000)
The Sunken Sailor	(2004)

Note: Naked Came the Farmer and The Sunken Sailor were collaborative novels written with several other authors.

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Dorothy Cannell Synopsis: The Family Jewels and Other Stories includes the mystery short stories The Purloined Purple Pearl, Cupid’s Arrow, One Night at a Time, Telling George, The January Sale Stowaway, The Gentleman’s Gentleman, Come to Grandma, Fetch, Poor Lincoln, The High Cost of Living and The Family Jewels: A Moral Tale.