There are 23 books in the Dr. Gideon Fell series. The newest book is Dark of the Moon which came out in 1987.

1
Hag's Nook

Book cover of Hag's Nook

'The Starberths die of broken necks' goes the legend in the village of Chatterham . . .

The Starberth family governed the now-abandoned Chatterham prison for many years, and each male heir must spend the night of his twenty-fifth birthday there, alone, overlooking the hanging site of Hag's Nook.

Meanwhile,…

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2
The Mad Hatter Mystery

Book cover of The Mad Hatter Mystery

A murdered man in a top hat leads Dr. Gideon Fell to a killer with a sick sense of humor

At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city’s most powerful people―but is the hat…

3
The Eight of Swords

Book cover of The Eight of Swords

A tarot card discovered at a murder scene provides a clue for Dr. Gideon Fell

In a house in the English countryside, a man has just turned up dead, surrounded by a crime scene that seems, at first glance, to be fairly straightforward. He’s found with a bullet through the…

4
The Blind Barber

Book cover of The Blind Barber

A thief is loose aboard HMS Queen Victoria, and four amateur detectives are hell-bent on tracking him down. Unprepared for the evidence that their sleuthing activities will uncover - a reel of compromising film, a blood-soaked stateroom bunk, a lethally sharp razor and an emerald elephant - they find themselves…

5
Death-Watch

Book cover of Death-Watch
In this Golden Age British-style mystery, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master John Dickson Carr presents Dr. Gideon Fell’s most chilling case, in which a clock-obsessed killer terrorizes London

A clockmaker is puzzled by the theft of the hands of a monumental new timepiece he is preparing for a member…

6
The Three Coffins

Book cover of The Three Coffins
Professor Charles Grimaud was explaining to some friends the natural causes behind an ancient superstition about men leaving their coffins when a stranger entered and challenged Grimaud's skepticism. The stranger asserted that he had risen from his own coffin and that four walls meant nothing to him. He added, 'My…

7
The Arabian Nights Murder

The Arabian Nights Murder
Dr. Gideon Fell solves the dagger murder of a frock-coated, false-whiskered man whose corpse is discovered in the great black carriage of the eerie Wade Museum of Oriental Art

8
The Crooked Hinge

Book cover of The Crooked Hinge

An inheritance hangs in the balance in a case of stolen identities, imposters, and murder

Banished from the idyllic English countryside he once called home and en route to live with his cousin in America, Sir John Farnleigh, black sheep of the wealthy Farnleigh clan, nearly perished in the sinking…

9
To Wake The Dead

Book cover of To Wake The Dead

Christopher Kent, worth a quarter of a million pounds yet without a penny in his pocket, stands hungrily in Piccadilly one snowy morning, looking up at the huge hotel, when a piece of card bearing a number floats down to him. He enters and is served with breakfast, giving the…

11
The Problem of the Wire Cage

The Problem of the Wire Cage
The corpse of Frank Dorrance is discovered in the center of a tennis court and Dr. Gideon Fell searches for the killer

13
The Case of the Constant Suicides

Book cover of The Case of the Constant Suicides
When the Campbell family begins to suspect that Angus Campbell's death was the result of murder not suicide, they ask Dr. Fell to investigate.

16
He Who Whispers

He Who Whispers
Dr. Gideon Fell investigates the murder of Howard Brooke, who was killed at a time when no one could have approached him unobserved

17
The Sleeping Sphinx

The Sleeping Sphinx
Returning from the war, Don Holden discovers that his best friend's wife has died under mysterious circumstances

18
Below Suspicion

Below Suspicion
When the fake defense Patrick Butler used to clear Joyce Ellis is used to prove Lucia Renshaw is guilty of murder, he turns to Dr. Gideon Fell for help

20
In Spite of Thunder

Book cover of In Spite of Thunder

On his return to Geneva, Brian Innes must meet Audrey Page and find a way to prevent her from joining the strangely temperamental group of people gathered around film star Eve Eden at the Villa Rosalind. With characteristic stubbornness, if not trusting naivety, she refuses to be detained and is…

21
The House at Satan's Elbow

The House at Satan's Elbow
When Pennington Barclay is found murdered in a locked room, his sister claims that he was killed by a ghost and Dr. Fell is called to investigate

23
Dark of the Moon

Dark of the Moon
When Dr Gideon Fell, that most eminent of eccentric sleuths, finds himself at a party whose guests are in a state of deep agitation, all the faculties of his detective genius are called into play.