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Standalone Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Standalone books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Standalone series? Start with "Andrewlina" (1889) and follow publication order through all 42 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Andrewlina
1889
The Winding Way
0
Old Lattimer's Legacy
0
The Wonderful Wapentake
0
The Wonderful City
0
In the Days of Drake
0
Lucian the Dreamer
1903
Paradise Court
1908
The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation
1917
The Middle Temple Murder
1919
Dead Men's Money
1919
The Talleyrand Maxim
1919
The Orange-Yellow Diamond
1920
Scarhaven Keep
1920
The Borough Treasurer
1921
The Paradise Mystery
1921
The Root Of All Evil
1921
The Middle of Things
1922
In the Mayor's Parlour
1922
When Lightning Strikes Twice
1922
The Markenmore Mystery
1922
The Mazaroff Murder
1923
The Mystery Of Lynne Court
1923
Black Money / The Charing Cross Mystery
1923
The Lost Mr. Linthwaite
1923
The Mill of Many Windows
1924
The Cartwright Gardens Murder
1924
The Passenger To Folkestone
1927
The Mortover Grange Affair
1927
Mr. Spivey's Clerk
1932
Todmanhaw Grange
2013
The Ivory God
2020
The Other Sense
2020
At the Blue Bell Inn
1898
The Adventures of Archer Dawe
1909
The Secret of the Barbican
1925
Behind The Monocle
1928
The Massingham Butterfly
1970
For Those Were Stirring Times!
2018
Anima Christi
1884
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror
1931
Thrillers
1994
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