Norman Russell

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2000
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Inspector Box

The Advocate's Wife (Jun-2002)
Web Of Discord (Nov-2004)
The Gold Masters (Mar-2006)
Depths of Deceit (Jun-2008)
The Dorset House Affair (Jul-2009)
The Hansa Protocol (Apr-2012)

Oldminster

1 - An Invitation to Murder (Nov-2021)
2 - An Antique Murder (Feb-2022)
3 - The Secret of Bagnett Hall (Dec-2022)

Oxford

1 - An Oxford Tragedy (Aug-2015)
2 - An Oxford Anomaly (Sep-2016)
3 - An Oxford Scandal (Sep-2017)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • The Dried-Up Man

  • The Dark Kingdom

    Jane Ashwood longs to see her vision of a public school for girls translated into reality and is thrilled when headmaster Edward Dalton becomes committed. But when a violent death strikes she finds that he is the prime suspect....

  • Haunted Governess

  • The Advocate's Wife

    Inspector Box

    Adelaide has had a good marriage to Sir William Porteous, and already she has launched two of her three daughters into society. But then disaster strikes. A homicidal dilettante makes a very public attempt on Sir William's life, and the ensuing ...

  • The Ancaster Demons

    To the good folk of late-Victorian Ancaster, the ancient figures of angels carved on the cathedral tower are benevolent guardians. However, the stubborn, autocratic Dean Girdlestone sees them as idols and orders their destruction. On the night of the...

  • Web Of Discord

    Inspector Box

    Returning from a court appearance, Detective Inspector Box finds himself investigating the violent death of Sir John Courteline, the great philanthropist. It looks like an act of private revenge, but Box soon uncovers a widespread conspiracy. Pursuin...

  • Evil Holds the Key

    Lucy Forster's marriage to wealthy young landowner Robert Davenant makes her mistress of Lowthorpe Hall, a gracious country seat in a remote Warwickshire valley. But she soon learns that Lowthorpe harbors a sinister and dangerous secret. Fearful rumo...

  • The Gold Masters

    Inspector Box

    Sir Hamo Strange is one of the gold masters, an elite group of international financiers in late Victorian England whose stock-in-trade is unimaginable quantities of fine gold. Strange is also a collector of ancient books, a passion shared with his ha...

  • The Unquiet Sleeper

    Ursula Holt had spent six months in a lunatic asylum for killing and maiming farm animals while sleepwalking. Like her keepers, she is convinced of her own guilt, as is her kindly uncle, Dr. Matthew Holt. Only her loyal and loving cousin Kate, and th...



  • The Aquila Project

    At the opening of Tower Bridge in June 1894, a would-be assassin, Anton Grunwalski, is arrested but is later dramatically rescued from police custody. Detective Inspector Arnold Box, working with Colonel Kershaw, Head o...

  • Depths of Deceit

    Inspector Box

    When renowned archaeologist Professor Roderick Ainsworth unearths an ancient Roman temple of Mithras in London's Clerkenwell, his career is set to be crowned with a knighthood. Thena young analytical chemist is murdered in the temple, and circumstanc...

  • The Dorset House Affair

    Inspector Box

    Dorset House is the home of the Claygate family, and a place where diplomats love to congregate. When young Maurice Claygate and notorious spy Sophie Lenart are found shot dead, Inspector Arnold Box, investigating the murders, hears from Head of Secr...

  • The Calton Papers

    Arthur Waldegrave, heir to a vast estate and fortune, perishes in a spectacular fire. Shortly afterwards, rural detectives Inspector Saul Jackson and his bibulous but shrewd sergeant, Herbert Bottomley, establish that he was murdered with cyanide. Wh...

  • The Hansa Protocol

    Inspector Box

    In the bitter january of 1893, the German peace crusader Dr Otto Seligmann is blown to pieces in the Belvedere, his garden library at Chelsea. Detective Inspector Box and Sergeant Knollys interview Seligmann's associate, Count Cernzy, who reveals tha...

  • Ghosts of Mayfield Court

    When Maximilian Paget inherits Mayfield Court, he and his niece Catherine find it to be half ruined, and haunted by the wraith of a murdered child. Catherine discovers a child’s skeleton, bringing rural Detective Inspector Saul Jackson and his bibu...

  • An Oxford Tragedy

    Oxford - 1

    1894, Sir Montague Fowler, warden of St Michael’s College, Oxford, dies from apparent natural causes. Before long vicious rumours begin to circulate about the actual cause of his death, and an autopsy reveals that Sir Montague’s body was full of ...

  • An Oxford Anomaly

    Oxford - 2

    Jeremy Oakshott, Fellow of Jerusalem Hall, and an authority on the Crusades, is content with life until renowned archaeologist Mrs Lestrange urges him to join her expedition to Syria. His wealthy uncle, Ambrose Littlemore, refuses to help him, and is...

  • An Oxford Scandal

    Oxford - 3

     

    Set in the late Victorian era, An Oxford Scandal is the third book in Norman Russell’s ‘Oxford’ series of detective novels. The book follows Anthony Jardine, a successful and popular tutor at St. Gabriel’s College, as he finds his...

  • Tongued With Fire

    “I always look forward to the next book by Norman Russell.... One to read slowly, and savour like a fine wine.” " MyShelf’s review of the ‘Oxford’ series 

    Frank Renfield, Baron Renfield of Renfield Hall, will go to any lengths t...



  • An INVITATION TO MURDER an absolutely gripping murder mystery full of twists

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What a twisty plot! Kind of like if Agatha Christie was alive and writing mysteries in the present. Karen ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Blackmail, crime, murder, revenge, obsession, deception, lies ...

  • An Invitation to Murder

    Oldminster - 1

    Welcome to Oldminster, a quaint little town where there’s always a mystery to be solved.Frank Renfield, Baron of Renfield Hall, will stop at nothing to save himself from ruin. Even if that means marrying his daughter off to a rich American. Unf...

  • An Antique Murder

    Oldminster - 2

    The Irving retirement home for actors in their twilight years is never short of drama. Not least when legendary thespian Sir Frank Taylor is discovered dead in his bloodstained bed. A Nazi dagger plunged deep in his chest. Sir Frank was once England'...

  • NO CHOICE BUT MURDER

    It's a stormy dark night in the quaint English town of Oldminister when local gallery owner Louis Gillette is discovered dead in his office. Gillette seems to have been bludgeoned to death, the safe nearby open and empty of all contents - possibly th...

  • The Secret of Bagnett Hall

    Oldminster - 3

    CAN YOU UNLOCK THE SECRET OF BAGNETT HALL?Janet Baxter is a con woman on the run from her obsessive ex. One dark and stormy night, she stumbles across rambling old Bagnett Hall. She’s struck gold.Bridget Messite, the lady of the house, invites ...

  • DEATH AT THE ALTAR an absolutely gripping murder mystery full of twists

    Residents of Oldminster are horrified by the arrival of the city's first lady vicar, Reverend Stacey Williams. No sooner does she step foot in the ancient church that trouble begins . . .First there are violent protests. Next are several threatening ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Norman Russell has published 25 books.

Norman Russell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, DEATH AT THE ALTAR an absolutely gripping murder mystery full of twists, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Norman Russell, The Dried-Up Man, was published in August 2000.

Yes. Norman Russell has 3 series.
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