Anthony Morton

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1973
  • Latest Book:
    May 2015
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Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • The Baron and the Arrogant Artist

    Mannering quite admired the arrogance of the self-opinionated young artist who asked him for patronage for a subsidy to keep him painting. It was also clear that the young painter wasn't actually asking for a favour, he was conferring one! With so...

  • Salute for the Baron

  • Burgle the Baron

  • The Baron, King-Maker

  • The Baron in France

    When somebody broke into the safe of respected jeweler, Bernard Dale, he obviously hadn''t reckoned on any interference. His first mistake. His second mistake - killing Dale - was just downright stupid. For Dale was an old friend of John Mannering...

  • A Branch for the Baron

    John Mannering (aka ‘The Baron’) is a retired cracksman and jewel thief who now runs an antique shop, ‘Quinns’, in London’s Mayfair. He decides to open a branch in Boston and at the same time move to an Elizabethan Manor House known as Hard...

  • Call for the Baron

    A series of minor thefts at Vere House prompts the owners to call in their old friend, John Mannering, to investigate. Whilst Mannering is doing so, the jewels and the famous Deverall necklace belonging to Lady Usk, a guest of the Vere's, are stolen....

  • Danger for the Baron

    John Mannering (aka ‘The Baron’) is secretly called to the house of William Blane by his young secretary Judy Darrow. He doesn’t really know what to expect, only that a frightened girl had urgently summoned him in a midnight telephone call. Upo...

  • Into the Trap

    When John Mannering - alias the Baron - picked up the receiver he heard a frightened man at the end of the line. When he later opened his front door he found a superbly confidant and supremely beautiful woman standing there. She had been robbed of di...



  • A Salute

    A young employee of the Olde World Gallery is suspected of stealing jewellery and even those that know her well suspect the worst. The list of crimes of which she is the alleged perpetrator then grows to include arson, and even murder. John Mannering...

  • Blood Red

    John Mannering, the former jewel thief known as ‘The Baron’ and now a respectable antique dealer in London’s Mayfair, was selling a fabulous diamond ring known as the ‘Red Eye of Love’. The ring, however, was not wanted by its intended reci...

  • The Chinese Puzzle

    John Mannering (aka ‘The Baron’) is a retired jewel thief who now runs a respectable antique business in London’s Mayfair. His curiosity is aroused when he is invited to Hong Kong by a dealer to view a unique exhibition of Chinese art, but is e...

  • A Good Read

    The Earl of Lithorn is a very skilled rider, who nevertheless one day gets thrown by his horse and breaks his neck. Meanwhile, his daughter and heiress claims to have seen a corpse in the library with its throat slit. Is she hallucinating, or is ther...

  • Held at Bay

    Once the inheritance of a noble family, the five beautiful jewels of Castile were stolen, separated and their identity lost. Few men could recognize them for what they were, but John Mannering, alias ‘The Baron’ was such a man. In pursuit of jewe...

  • If Anything Happens to Hester

    John Mannering (aka ‘The Baron’), retired jewel thief and shop owner in London’s Mayfair, sets off to find a missing girl and subsequently becomes involved in a convoluted plot involving blackmail, theft and murder. There is also danger lurking...

  • Baron Goes a-Buying

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Anthony Morton has published 16 books.

Anthony Morton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Held at Bay, was published in May 2015.

The first book by Anthony Morton, Salute for the Baron, was published in January 1973.

No. Anthony Morton does not write books in series.
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