novels The Thirty-First of February (1950) The Broken Penny (1953) The Paper Chase (1956), as Bogue's Fortune (US) The Colour of Murder (1957) (Winner, 1957 Gold Dagger Award) The Progress of a Crime (1960) (Winner, 1961 Edgar Award, Best Novel) The Killing of Francie Lake (1962), as The Plain Man (US) The End of Solomon Grundy (1964) The Belting Inheritance (1965) The Blackheath Poisonings (1978) Sweet Adelaide (1980) The Name of Annabel Lee (1983) The Criminal Comedy of the Contented Couple (1985), as A Criminal Comedy (US) Death's Darkest Face (1990) Something Like a Love Affair (1992) Playing Happy Families (1994) A Sort of Virtue: A Political Crime Novel (1996) Collected short crime fiction Francis Quarles Murder! Murder! (1961) Centre Court Mystery; Test Match Murder; The Grand National Case; The Case of SW2; The Unhappy Piano Tuner; A Pearl among Women; Credit to William Shakespeare; Meeting in the Snow; The Wrong Hat; The Absent-Minded Professor; Each Man Kills; Time for Murder; The Case of the Frightened Promoter; Picture Show; Sailors' Hornpipe; The Hiding Place; Airport Incident; The Plaster Pekingese; Comedy in Venice; The Invisible Poison; Little Man Lost Francis Quarles Investigates (1965) Strolling in the Square One Day; The Archer; Out of the Mouths; Thirty Days Hath September; The Woman Afraid of October; Blue Paint; One Little Letter; The Santa Claus Club; Hot Summer Night; Coffee for Three; Four Letters; Kidnap Plot; A Matter of Dentistry; By the Sea; Ace of Spades The Detections of Francis Quarles (Crippen & Landru, 2006) Red Rum Means Murder; Death in the Scillies; Poison Pen; An Exercise in Logic; Summer Show; The Desk; Mrs Rolleston's Diamonds; Murder - But How Was it Done?; Ancestor Worship; Iced Champagne; No Use Turning a Deaf Ear to Murder; The Duke of York; Double Double Cross; Tattoo; Jack and Jill; The Conjuring Trick; Happy Hexing; No Deception; The Second Bullet; Preserving the Evidence; Death for Mr Golightly; A Man with Blue hair; The Two Suitors; Airborne with a Borgia; Art Loving Mr Lister Lands a Fake; The Collector; Ghost from the Past; The Swedish Nightingale; The Barton Hall Dwarf; The Pepoli Case; Nothing up His Sleeve; A Present from Santa Claus; The Link; Little Boy Blue; Affection Unlimited; The Whistling Man; Party Line; Who Killed Harrington?; Murder in Reverse; The Vanishing Trick; The impossible Theft; Final Night Extra Other collections How to Trap a Crook (1977) Experiment in