Dorothy Cannell Books in Order
Dorothy Cannell has written 23 books, published between 1984 and 2022. The first book is The Thin Woman (1984) and the newest is Peril in the Parish (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 23
- Published
- 1984–2022
- Confirmed
- 22 of 23 titles
- Pages on record
- 5,066 in 18 of 23 books
- Reading time
- 84–127 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,066 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 18 of 23 titles with a page count on record.
Dorothy Cannell is an English-American mystery writer. The Ellie Haskell series, opening with The Thin Woman (1984), runs through Down the Garden Path (1985), The Widow's Club (1988) and Femmes Fatal (1992), and features an interior decorator turned amateur sleuth in England. Cannell's catalogue holds 23 books published between 1984 and 2022, also covering the Florence Norris and Tessa Fields series alongside standalones and short stories.
How many Dorothy Cannell books are there?
Dorothy Cannell has 23 books, released between 1984 and 2022. They include 3 separate series.
Dorothy Cannell Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 23 Dorothy Cannell books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 119843043/4
- 219852883/4
- 319883453/4
- 419903243/4
- 519902633/4
- 619912643/4
- 719923043/4
- 819942373/4
- 919942753/4
- 101995–1/4
- 111995–3/4
- 1219972583/4
- 1319982883/4
- 1419992783/4
- 1520002563/4
- 1620022563/4
- 1720072613/4
- 1820083203/4
- 1920092943/4
- 202012–3/4
- 212014–3/4
- 2220152513/4
- 232022–3/4
Dorothy Cannell characters in order
The character linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Ellie Haskell books in order 13 books
Dorothy Cannell books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Ellie Haskell Mystery in order
13 books- 1. The Thin Woman
- 2. The Widow's Club
- 3. Mum's the Word
- 4. Femmes Fatal
- 5. How to Murder Your Mother-In-Law
- 6. How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams
- 7. The Spring Cleaning Murders
- 8. The Trouble with Harriet
- 9. Bridesmaids Revisited
- 10. The Importance of Being Ernestine
- 11. Withering Heights
- 12. Goodbye, Ms. Chips
- and 1 more in the table above
Dorothy Cannell Short Stories/Novellas
3 books3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Florence Norris in order
3 booksDorothy Cannell Standalone Novels
2 books2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Tessa Fields in order
1 bookDorothy Cannell Short Story
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Dorothy Cannell books in order?
You only need to read Dorothy Cannell books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Dorothy Cannell
Start with The Thin Woman (1984), the first Ellie Haskell book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Dorothy Cannell book?
Peril in the Parish (2022) is the newest Dorothy Cannell book released so far.
Is there a new Dorothy Cannell book coming?
No next Dorothy Cannell book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Dorothy Cannell at a glance
- Paused
- No new Dorothy Cannell title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Dorothy Cannell books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 5,066 pages across the 18 of 23 books with a recorded length, a median of 276 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Dorothy Cannell books, 11 of 23, were published in the 1990s.
What the Dorothy Cannell books are about
21 of the 23 Dorothy Cannell books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: ellie haskell (fictitious character) is tagged on 11 of 21. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Ellie Haskell (Fictitious character) 11 of 21 books
- England 10 of 21 books
- Haskell, ellie (fictitious character) 8 of 21 books
- Women interior decorators 8 of 21 books
- Haskell, bentley (fictitious character) 6 of 21 books
- Mystery & detective, traditional 6 of 21 books
- Mystery & detective, women sleuths 5 of 21 books
- Mystery & detective 3 of 21 books
- Crime 2 of 21 books