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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2009
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Emily Cabot Mystery

1 - Death at Hull House (Dec-2009)
2 - Death at the Fair (Jan-2010)
3 - Death at Pullman (Mar-2011)
4 - Death at Woods Hole (Jul-2012)
5 - Death at Chinatown (Apr-2014)
6 - Death at the Paris Exposition (Sep-2016)
7 - Death at the Selig Studios (May-2018)
8 - Death on the Homefront (Dec-2020)

Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • In this well-plotted sequel to "Death at the Fair," Emily Cabot finds work at Hull House, the famous settlement established by Jane Addams. There she quickly becomes involved in the political and social problems of the immigrant community. But when a...



  • The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition provides a vibrant backdrop for this exciting new mystery. Emily Cabot is one of the first women graduate students at the University of Chicago, eager to prove herself in the new field of sociology. While she i...



  • A model town at war with itself . . . George Pullman created an ideal community for his railroad car workers, complete with every amenity they could want or need. But when hard economic times hit in 1894, lay-offs follow and the workers can no longer...



  • Exhausted after the tumult of the Pullman Strike of 1894, Emily Cabot is looking forward to a restful summer visit to Cape Cod. She has plans to collect "beasties" for the Marine Biological Laboratory, alongside other visiting scientists from the Uni...



  • In the summer of 1896, amateur sleuth Emily Cabot meets two young Chinese women who have recently received medical degrees. She is inspired to make an important decision about her own life when she learns about the difficult choices they have made in...




  • In the sixth Emily Cabot Mystery, the intrepid amateur sleuth’s journey once again takes her to a world’s fair -- the Paris Exposition of 1900. Chicago socialite Bertha Palmer has been named the only female U. S. commissioner to the Exposition an...



  • The early summer of 1909 finds Emily Cabot eagerly anticipating a relaxing vacation with her family. Before they can depart, however, she receives news that her brother, Alden, has been involved in a shooting death at the Selig Polyscope silent movie...



  • With the United States on the verge of entering World War I, tensions run high in Chicago in the Spring of 1917, and the city simmers with anti-German sentiment mixed with virulent patriotism. Shockingly, amateur sleuth Emily Cabot is present when a ...






  • Set in 1918 Chicago, McNamara's excellent ninth Emily Cabot mystery (after 2020's Death on the Home Front) finds Emily's physician husband, Stephen, serving on the front lines of the Spanish Influenza epidemic. Meanwhile, Emily gets drawn into a murd...



  • In January 1919 tank bursts in Boston's North End, flooding the neighborhood with molasses. When a woman is found murdered in the wreckage, Frances Glessner Lee asks her old friend, medical examiner Dr. George Magrath to help exonerate a young servic...



  • In November 1919 a woman is found dead. Police assume she fell from the back porch of a three-decker in East Boston. At the funeral home, they discover she was shot. Medical examiner Magrath is furious at newly hired police detective Peter Attwood fo...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frances McNamara has published 12 books.

Frances McNamara does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Three-Decker Murder in a Nutshell, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Frances McNamara, Death at Hull House, was published in December 2009.

Yes. Frances McNamara has 1 series.