Winter Park Public Library -- Cozy Mysteries (Authors A-I)

Series (Series titles below reflect library collection. Other titles in the series or by that author may not be owned by us.)
Jim Dandy, retired American, featured in Elderhostel Mysteries by Peter Abresch (see Senior Sleuths Mysteries)

China Bayles, Houston crime lawyer in small Texas town who opens an herb shop by Susan Wittig Albert (see Cooking Mysteries)

George Porter Dillman, yacht-builder-turned-actor detective by Conrad Allen (Eward Marston)
1. Murder on the Lusitania
2. Murder on the Maurentania
3. Murder on the Minnesota
4. Murder on the Caronia
5. Murder on the Marmora
6. Murder on the Salsette

Albert Campion, suave London sleuth with noble blood by Margery Allingham (see British Aristocracy Mysteries)

Meg Langslow, decorative blacksmith by Donna Andrews (see Humorous Mysteries)

Samantha Shaw, So. CA suburban housewife & soccer mom by Jennifer Apodaca
1. Dating Can be Murder
2. Dying to Meet You
3. Ninja Soccer Moms
4. Batteries Required

Penny Spring & Sir Toby Glendower, British anthropologist & archaeologist by Margot Arnold (see Archaeology & Anthropology Mysteries)

Aunt Dimity, an English ghost by Nancy Atherton (see Spooky Mysteries)

Augusta Goodnight, guardian angel by Mignon F. Ballard (see Humorous Mysteries)

Margaret Binton, 70-something New Yorker by Richard Barth (see Senior Sleuths Mysteries)

Agatha Raisin, retired p.r. exec. moves to the Cotswalds by M.C. Beaton (see Senior Sleuths Mysteries)

Biggie & J. R. Weatherford, richest woman in East Texas. Her cook, Willie Mae, shares a recipe in each book by Nancy Bell (see Cooking Mysteries)

Melanie Travis, poodle breeder by Berenson, Laurien (see Hobbies Mysteries)

Sarah & Meg Quilliam, run the Inn at Hemlock Falls by Claudia Bishop (see Cooking Mysteries)

Bernie Rhodenbarr, burglar & bookseller in New York City by Lawrence Block (see Bibliomysteries)

Clara Gamadge, widow of a detective by Eleanor Boylan (see Senior Sleuths Mysteries)

Jim Qwilleran, Koko and Yum Yum Pick Ax:, Michigan journalist & his cats by Lilian Jackson Braun
1. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
2. The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern
3. The Cat Who Turned On and Off
4. The Cat Who Saw Red
5. The Cat Who Played Brahms
6. The Cat Who Played Post Office
7. The Cat Who Sniffed Glue in Three Complete Novels
8. The Cat Who Had 14 Tales
9. The Cat Who Went Underground
10. The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts
11. The Cat Who Lived High
12. The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal
13. The Cat Who Moved a Mountain
14. The Cat Who Wasn't There
15. The Cat Who Went Into the Closet
16. The Cat Who Came to Breakfast
17. The Cat Who Blew the Whistle
18. The Cat Who Said Cheese
19. The Cat Who Tailed a Thief
20. The Cat Who Sang for the Birds
21. The Cat Who Saw Stars
22. The Cat Who Robbed a Bank
23. The Cat Who Smelled a Rat
24. The Cat Who Went up the Creek
25. Short and Tall Tales
26. The Cat Who Brought Down the House
27. The Private Life of the Cat Who--
28. The Cat Who Talked Turkey
29. The Cat Who Went Bananas
Other titles in series

Jerry Brogan, track announcer at Surfside Meadows in CA by Jon Breen
1. Listen for the Click
2. Triple Crown
3. Loose Lips
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Rachel Hennings, bookstore owner in LA by Jon Breen (see Bibliomysteries)

Melita Pargeter, widow of an English thief by Simon Brett (see Senior Sleuths Mysteries)

Charles Paris, actor in England by Simon Brett (see Humorous Mysteries)

Inspector Witherspoon & Mrs. Jeffries by Emily Brightwell (see Senior Sleuths Mysteries)

Mary Minor Haristeen & Mrs. Murphy, Virginia postmistress and her animals by Rita Mae Brown (see Southern Mysteries)

Charles Wycliffe, area CID Superintendent in West Country by W.J. Burley (see British Police Mysteries A-I)

Ellie & Ben Haskell, owners of the Flowers Detection Agency by Dorothy Cannell (see Cooking Mysteries)

Dr. Gideon Fell, the "Old Lexicographer" in England by John Dickson Carr
1. The Three Coffins in Trio
2. The Arabian Nights Murder in Three Detective Novels
3. The Crooked Hinge in Trio
4. The Problem of the Wire Cage in Three Detective Novels
5. The Case of the Constant Suicides in Trio
6. He Who Whispers
Other titles in series

Miss Emily D. Seeton, retired British art teacher in Kent, England by Heron Carvic & Hamilton Crane (see Senior Sleuths Mysteries)

Hilary Tamar, medieval Oxford professor by Sarah Caudwell (see Humorous Mysteries)

Hollis Ball & Her Ex-Husband's Ghost by Helen Chappell (see Spooky Mysteries)

Father Brown, gentle English cleric by G.K. Chesteron
1. The Innocence of Father Brown
2. The Wisdom of Father Brown
3. The Incredulity of Father Brown
4. The Secret of Father Brown
5. The Scandal of Father Brown

Theodosia Browning, Teashop mysteries in Charleston by Laura Childs (see Southern Mysteries)

Charlie Plato, country-western tavern owner in San Francisco by Margaret (Meg) Chittenden
1. Dying to Sing
2. Dead Men Don't Dance
3. Dead Beat and Deadly
4. Don't Forget to Die
5. Dying to See You

Miss Jane Marple, spinster living in St. Mary's Mead, England by Agatha Christie (see Senior Sleuths Mysteries)

Hercule Poirot, private detective in London by Agatha Christie
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2. Murder on the Links
3. Poirot Investigates
4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
5. The Big Four
6. The Mystery of the Blue Train
7. Peril at End House
8. Lord Edgware Dies (aka Thirteen at Dinner)
9. Three Act Tragedy
10. Murder on the Orient Express
11. Death in the Clouds
12. The ABC Murders
13. Murder in Mesopotamia in Postmark: Murder
14. Cards on the Table
15. Dumb Witness
16. Death on the Nile
17. Dead Man's Mirror (audio book)
18. Appointment With Death in Postmark: Murder
19. Sad Cypress
20. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
21. Evil Under the Sun in Murder International
22. The Labors of Hercules
23. There is a Tide
24. Mrs. McGinty's Dead
25. After the Funeral in Funerals are Fatal
26. Hickory Dickory Death
27. Dead Man's Folly in Agatha Christie's Detectives
28. Cat Among the Pigeons
29. The Clocks
30. Third Girl
31. Hallowe'en Party
32. Elephants Can Remember
33. Hercule Poirot's Early Cases
34. Curtain
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Jane Jeffrey, Chicago housewife/sleuth by Jill Churchill (see Humorous Mysteries)

Charlotte LaRue, New Orleans housecleaner by Barbara Colley (see Southern Mysteries)

Tish McWhinny, a 70-something Vermont artist and painter by Barbara Comfort (see Senior Sleuths Mysteries)

Holly Winter, dog trainer and magazine columnist by Susan Conant (see Hobbies Mysteries)

Willow King, romance novelist in London by Natasha Cooper (see Bibliomysteries)

Gervase Fen. professor of Language & Literature at Oxford by Edmund Crispin (see Academic Mysteries)

Kate Fansler, English professor in New York by Amanda Cross (see Academic Mysteries)

Emma Lord Alpine, WA newspaper owner & editor by Mary Daheim
1. The Alpine Advocate
2. The Alpine Betrayal
3. The Alpine Christmas
4. The Alpine Decoy
5. The Alpine Icon
6. The Alpine Menace
7. The Alpine Nemesis
8. The Alpine Obituary
9. The Alpine Pursuit
10. The Alpine Quilt
Other titles in series

Judith McMonigle, owner of the Hillside Manor Inn b&b by Mary Daheim (see Cooking Mysteries)

Henry Gamadge, author, bibliophile & forgery expert in NY by Elizabeth Daly (see Bibliomysteries)

Dorothy Martin, a transplanted American widow in England by Jeanne M. Dams (see Senior Sleuths Mysteries)

Goldy Bear Schultz, Aspen caterer by Diane Mott Davidson (see Cooking Mysteries)

Fremont Jones, turn-of-century owner of S.F. typewriter service by Diane Day (see California Mysteries)

Neal Kelly, professor of English at a New England school by S.F.X. Dean (see Academic Mysteries)
Mama & Simone Covington, SC case worker & Atlanta paralegal by Nora DeLoach (see African Heritage Mysteries)

Helma Zukas, Washington State librarian by Jo Dereske (see Bibliomysteries)

Daisy Dalrymple, journalist in Hampshire, England by Carola Dunn
1. Death at Wentwater Court
2. The Winter Garden Mystery
3. Requiem for a Mezzo
4. Murder on the Flying Scotsman
5. Damsel in Distress
6. Dead in the Water
7. Styx and Stones
8. Rattle His Bones
9. To Davy Jones Below
10. The Case of the Murdered Muckracker
11. Mistletoe and Murder
12. Die Laughing
13. A Mourning Wedding
14. Fall of a Philanderer

Chris Norgren, art museum curator in Seattle by Aaron Elkins (see Art Mysteries)

Gideon Oliver, forensic anthropologist by Aaron Elkins (see Archaeology & Anthropology Mysteries)

Madeline Bean, Hollywood caterer by Jerrilyn Farmer (see California Mysteries)

Andrew Basnett, retired botany professor in England by E.X. Ferrars (see Academic Mysteries)

Albenia "Benni" Harper, ex-rancher & folk art museum curator by Earlene Fowler (see Art Mysteries)

Jemima Shore, investigative TV journalist in London by Antonia Fraser
1. Quiet as a Nun
2. The Wild Island
3. A Splash of Red
4. Cool Repentance
5. Oxford Blood
6. Jemima Shore's First Case & Other Stories
7. Your Royal Hostage
8. The Cavalier Case
9. Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave
10. Political Death

Sister Frevisse, medieval nun in Oxfordshire, England by Margaret Frazer (see Medieval Mysteries)

Joan Spencer, symphony orchestra manager in Indiana by Sara Hoskinson Frommer
1. Murder in C Major
2. Buried in Quilts
3. Murder & Sullivan
4. The Vanishing Violinist
5. Witness in Bishop Hill
Other titles in series

Mary Alice Crane & Patricia Anne Hollowell, Southern sisters by Anne George (see Senior Sleuths Mysteries)

Mrs. Emily Pollifax, grandmother and spy for CIA by Dorothy Gilman (see Senior Sleuths Mysteries)

Jacobia Triptree, onetime financial advisor to the mob ("Home Repair is Homicide" series) by Sarah Graves
1. Dead Cat Bounce
2. Triple Witch
3. Wicked Fix
4. Repair to Her Grave
5. Wreck the Halls
6. Unhinged
7. Mallets Aforethought
8. Tool & Die

Tess Darcy, bed-and-breakfast owner in Victoria Springs, Missouri by Jean Hager (see Cooking Mysteries)

Cora Felton, *crossword creator with a nationally-syndicated column in Connecticut* by Parnell Hall (see Hobbies Mysteries)

Lara McClintock, Toronto antiques dealer by Lyn Hamilton (see Archaeology & Anthropology Mysteries)

Keith Calder, gunsmith in Newton Lauder, Scotland by Gerald Hammond
1. The Game
2. The Executor
3. Stray Shot
4. Snatch Crop
5. In Camera
6. Thin Air
7. Hook or Crook
8. Carriage of Justice
9. Sink or Swim
10. Follow That Gun
11. Illegal Tender
Other titles in series

John Cunningham, hunting dog breeder in Scotland by Gerald Hammond
1. Whose Dog Are You?
2. Doghouse
3. Give a Dog a Name
4. The Curse of the Cockers
5. Mad Dogs and Scotsmen
6. Bloodlines
7. Twice Bitten
Other titles in series

Doran Fairweather, English antiques dealer by Mollie Hardwick
1. Malice Domestic
2. Parson's Pleasure
3. Uneaseful Death
4. The Bandersnatch
5. Perish in July
6. The Dreaming Damozel
7. Come Away Death

Lily Bard, housekeeper in Shakespeare, Arkansas by Charlaine Harris
1. Shakespeare's Landlord
2. Shakespeare's Champion
3. Shakespeare's Christmas
4. Shakespeare's Trollop
5. Shakespeare's Counselor

Aurora Teagarden, librarian-turned-realtor & Georgia amateur detective by Charlaine Harris (see Southern Mysteries)

Bretta Solomon, flower shop owner by Janis Harrison (see Hobbies Mysteries)

Annie Laurance & Max Darling, mystery bookstore owner & investigator by Carolyn G. Hart (see Bibliomysteries)

Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, professor & former reporter by Carolyn G. Hart (see Senior Sleuths Mysteries)

Jessie Arnold & Alex Jensen, sled dog racer & state trooper in Alaska by Sue Henry
1. Murder on the Iditarod Trail
2. Termination Dust
3. Sleeping Lady
4. Death Takes Passage
5. Deadfall
6. Murder on the Yukon Quest
7. Beneath the Ashes
8. Dead North
9. Cold Company
10. Death Trap
11. Murder at Five Finger Light

Claire Malloy, small town bookstore owner in Arizona by Joan Hess (see Bibliomysteries)

Sheila Malory, literary critic in her 50’s living in England by Hazel Holt (see Senior Sleuths Mysteries)

Emily Andrew, tour guide for Iowans (Passport to Peril series) by Maddy Hunter
1. Alpine for You
2. Top O' the Mournin'
Other titles in series
• Cozy Mystery authors J-Q • Cozy Mystery authors R-Z Last updated October 28, 2006 by Courtney Moore (cmoore@wppl.org).