Frances Crane

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2004
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Pat & Jean Abbott Mystery

The Turquoise Shop (Sep-2004)
The Golden Box (Apr-2005)
The Yellow Violet (Aug-2010)
The Pink Umbrella (Dec-2010)
The Applegreen Cat (Apr-2011)
The Amethyst Spectacles (Feb-2012)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • The Turquoise Shop

    A Pat & Jean Abbott Mystery

    In a small arts community in mid-century New Mexico, a wealthy patron is accused of murderIn a small, artsy New Mexico town, the arrival of a wealthy stranger from back East is enough to get folks talking. Even a few years after Mona Brandon landed i...

  • The Golden Box

    A Pat & Jean Abbott Mystery

    WEALTHY AND influential Mrs. Claribel Fabian Lake runs the town of Elm Hill to suit herself -- until death comes to claim her. When she succumbs to a heart attack no one is sorry -- but the strange terms of her will sow new seeds of discord and ha...

  • The Yellow Violet

    A Pat & Jean Abbott Mystery

    This third outing In the Pat and Jean Abbott series is set in the early weeks of World War II at a time when everyone smoked and women wore girdles. Private detective Pat is back home in San Fancisco hours away from marrying Jean Holly when a fellow ...

  • The Pink Umbrella

    A Pat & Jean Abbott Mystery

    Pat and Jean Abbott get mixed up in murder in New York City as Pat prepares to leave for the European theater during the early days of World War II. "I was alone with a KILLER!” “Someone was coming down the back stairs. Fast! I must step b...

  • The Applegreen Cat

    A Pat & Jean Abbott Mystery

    Pat and Jean Abbott are in Britain in this World War II murder mystery. “I was being watched!” “The room was black and the light switch didn’t work. I moved towards the table. I could feel the eyes boring into me. Where was Pat? Or wa...

  • The Amethyst Spectacles

    A Pat & Jean Abbott Mystery

    Pat and Jean Abbott return to New Mexico and once again become involves in a murder investigation in a fictional version of Taos. ...

  • The Indigo Necklace

    Pat and Jean Abbott are staying in the French Quarer in New Orleans during the closing months of World War II. The Quarter is overrun with refugees fleeing the war in Paris. There's also a murderer on the loose. ...

  • The Shocking Pink Hat

    Pat and Jean Abbott are back home in San Francisco at the end of World War II when an old friend of Pat's becomes a murder suspect....

  • The Amber Eyes

    A San Francisco couple sorts through scandals to find a killer in this classic mystery starring “one of the more interesting married teams of detectives” (Thrilling Detective).Pat and Jean Abbott’s new San Francisco neighbors give new meaning t...



  • The Cinnamon Murder

    Pat and Jean Abbott run into murder among the toffs at the Waldorf where the rich gather to celebrate the end of World War II. THE PAT ABBOTS ARE HEAD OVER HEELS IN MURDER ! AGAIN When Jean opened her eyes groggily she nearly died…there lay ...

  • 13 White Tulips

    A young couple and their dachshund star in a stylish San Francisco"set Golden Age mystery of “high ingenuity” (The New York Times). Jack Ivers, a man-about-town with a taste for rich women, has been found dead in his bed. What’s particularly ...

  • Black Cypress

    A family gathering and a body on the beach keep the sleuthing couple busy in this tale of “ample suspense, and breathless conclusion” (Saturday Review). Pat and Jean Abbott are in lovely Laguna Beach, invited to visit some distant relatives ...

  • The Daffodil Blonde

    During a stay in Kentucky horse country, a husband-and-wife detective team race to find a killer . . .   PI Pat Abbott and his wife, Jean, are vacationing in Kentucky horse country and visiting Pat’s old friend Rob Murray, who l...

  • Death in Lilac Time

    A PI and his wife just want some fun at the Kentucky Derby -- but murder is a horse of a different color . . .Private investigator Pat Abbott and his wife, Jean, are looking forwarding to seeing Pat’s old World War II buddy and takin...

  • Death-Wish Green

    Did she jump -- or was she jumped? A sleuthing couple looks into the disappearance of a young woman on the Golden Gate Bridge . . .   An abandoned car on the Golden Gate Bridge usually carries the sad suggestion of suicide. But af...

  • The Flying Red Horse

    The Abbotts travel to Texas and their dachshund finds a dead body in a mystery starring “one of the more interesting married teams of detectives” (Thrilling Detective).   When Jean Abbott arrives in Dallas to join her private investigator hu...

  • Horror on the Ruby X

    During a blizzard, a New Mexico ranch hosts “a poisonous lady of the manor . . . a puritanical spinster, an alluring secretary, and a succession of violent deaths” (Kirkus Reviews).   While investigating a deadly automobile ac...

  • Murder on the Purple Water

    After a body is found on a Florida fishing boat, a vacationing PI and his wife must cast a wide net . . .After Capt. Cy Martingale’s boat is docked in Key West, a passenger is left behind -- not just dead drunk, but dead. Pat and Jea...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frances Crane has published 18 books.

Frances Crane does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death-Wish Green, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Frances Crane, The Turquoise Shop, was published in September 2004.

Yes. Frances Crane has 1 series.
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