Reading order · 10 books · 2000 to 2009 · Set in London
Corinth and Browne Books in Order
The Corinth and Browne books are Golden Age style mysteries set in the 1930s, with Lord Edward Corinth, the younger son of a duke, and Verity Browne, a sharp-tongued communist journalist, solving murders among the powerful as the shadow of war spreads across Europe.
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Series facts
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 2000 to 2009
- First book
- Sweet Poison
- Latest
- Sweet Sorrow (2009)
- Setting
- Set in London
The reading order
Every Corinth and Browne book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.
10 books · Set in London
- 1Sweet Poison2000With Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneIn 1935, Lord Edward Corinth attends a dinner party at his brother’s house, where a distinguished general is poisoned.Buy on Amazon
- 2Bones of the Buried2001With Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneIn 1936, as Spain nears civil war, Verity asks Edward to go to Madrid to save her lover, a Communist convicted of murder, from the firing squad.Buy on Amazon
- 3Hollow Crown2002With Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneIn 1936, Edward is asked to recover letters stolen from Wallis Simpson, and his search leads to a country house where the task becomes tangled with murder.Buy on Amazon
- 4Dangerous Sea2003With Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneIn 1937, Edward keeps an unofficial eye on a British envoy sailing to New York aboard the Queen Mary to seek Roosevelt’s help, as people prepared to kill try to stop him.Buy on Amazon
- 5The More Deceived2004With Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneEdward is asked to find the source of leaks about Britain’s rearmament reaching Winston Churchill, and the murder of a Foreign Office official takes him to Spain and to Guernica.Buy on Amazon
- 6A Grave Man2005With Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneAt a memorial service in Westminster Abbey, a man is found stabbed with an ancient Assyrian dagger, and Edward and Verity follow the case to an estate in Kent.Buy on Amazon
- 7The Quality of Mercy2006With Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneAfter the Nazis take Austria in 1938, Verity is deported from Vienna, and a young Jewish man she helps to escape finds danger in England, while Edward’s nephew finds a body on Lord Mountbatten’s estate.Buy on Amazon
- 8Something Wicked2007With Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneIn 1938, Edward investigates the murder of his dentist, who believed three elderly patients near Henley-on-Thames had been killed, while Verity recovers in a nearby clinic.Buy on Amazon
- 9No More Dying2008With Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneIn 1939, MI5 learns that an enemy agent has been sent to kill Winston Churchill, and Edward’s hunt for the assassin begins at Cliveden, where Verity is also a guest.Buy on Amazon
- 10Sweet Sorrow2009With Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneIn August 1939, Edward and Verity plan a quiet stay in the Sussex village of Rodmell, until a poet is murdered after the village fete.Buy on Amazon
Do you need to read them in order?
Read the books in order, starting with Sweet Poison. Edward and Verity’s relationship develops through the series.
Who appears in which book
The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.
| Book | Lord Edward Corinth | Verity Browne |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Sweet Poison | LLead | LLead |
| 2 Bones of the Buried | LLead | LLead |
| 3 Hollow Crown | LLead | LLead |
| 4 Dangerous Sea | LLead | LLead |
| 5 The More Deceived | LLead | LLead |
| 6 A Grave Man | LLead | LLead |
| 7 The Quality of Mercy | LLead | LLead |
| 8 Something Wicked | LLead | LLead |
| 9 No More Dying | LLead | LLead |
| 10 Sweet Sorrow | LLead | LLead |
Characters in the Corinth and Browne books
2 characters from David Roberts’s chart, with the number of Corinth and Browne books each appears in.
| Character | Books | First in this series |
|---|---|---|
| Lord Edward CorinthDuke's younger son and amateur detective | 10 | Sweet Poison 2000 |
| Verity BrowneCommunist journalist | 10 | Sweet Poison 2000 |