John Hall Books in Order
John Hall has written 14 books, published between 1993 and 2016. The first book is I Remember The Date Very Well (1993) and the newest is Special Commission (2016). Publication order is the reading order below. 8 of the 14 books listed here are in the Sherlock Holmes Mystery series, which has its own page: Sherlock Holmes Mystery books in order.
- Books
- 14
- Published
- 1993–2016
- Confirmed
- 1 of 14 titles
- Pages on record
- 2,101 in 12 of 14 books
- Reading time
- 35–53 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,101 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 14 titles with a page count on record.
John Hall writes traditional mystery in the Sherlock Holmes line, and the recorded subjects name Holmes, Dr John H. Watson and Arthur Conan Doyle, with England the setting. Sherlock Holmes Mystery is the series in the catalogue. Fourteen books are listed from I Remember The Date Very Well (1993) to Special Commission (2016), among them Sherlock Holmes and the Telephone Murder Mystery (1998), Sidelights on Holmes (1998), Sherlock Holmes and the Boulevard Assassin (1999) and Sherlock Holmes and the Abbey School Mystery (2001).
How many John Hall books are there?
John Hall has 14 books, released between 1993 and 2016. 8 of them belong to the Sherlock Holmes Mystery series.
John Hall Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 14 John Hall 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.
- 1I Remember The Date Very Well1993 · 77 pages · confirmed 1/41993771/4
- 21997–3/4
- 3Sherlock Holmes and the Telephone Murder MysterySherlock Holmes Mystery #11998 · 189 pages · confirmed 1/419981891/4
- 4Sidelights on Holmes1998 · confirmed 1/41998–1/4
- 5The Abominable Wife and Other Unrecorded Cases of Mr. Sherlock Holmes1998 · 114 pages · confirmed 1/419981141/4
- 6Sherlock Holmes and the Boulevard AssassinSherlock Holmes Mystery #21999 · 174 pages · confirmed 1/419991741/4
- 7Sherlock Holmes and the Disgraced InspectorSherlock Holmes Mystery #31999 · 140 pages · confirmed 1/419991401/4
- 819991901/4
- 9Sherlock Holmes and the Abbey School MysterySherlock Holmes Mystery #52001 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/420011761/4
- 1020011371/4
- 1120011741/4
- 12The Ardagh Emeralds2007 · 339 pages · confirmed 1/420073391/4
- 1320081671/4
- 14Special Commission2016 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/420162241/4
John Hall series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
John Hall 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.
Point Horror in order
1 book- 72. Homecoming Queen
Standalone books
5 books5 John Hall titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read John Hall books in order?
You only need to read John Hall books in order within the Sherlock Holmes Mystery series, which holds 8 of the 14 John Hall books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with John Hall
Start with Sherlock Holmes and the Telephone Murder Mystery (1998), the first Sherlock Holmes Mystery book. The earliest catalogued title overall is I Remember The Date Very Well (1993).
What is the newest John Hall book?
Special Commission (2016) is the newest John Hall book released so far.
Is there a new John Hall book coming?
No next John Hall book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
John Hall at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest John Hall title on record dates from 2016, 10 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- John Hall books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 2,101 pages across the 12 of 14 books with a recorded length, a median of 174 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most John Hall books, 8 of 14, were published in the 1990s.
What the John Hall books are about
12 of the 14 John Hall books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: holmes, sherlock (fictitious character) is tagged on 9 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Holmes, sherlock (fictitious character) 9 of 12 books
- Sherlock Holmes 6 of 12 books
- Mystery & detective, traditional 5 of 12 books
- Watson, john h. (fictitious character) 4 of 12 books
- John H. Watson (Fictitious character) 3 of 12 books
- Doyle, arthur conan, sir, 1859-1930 2 of 12 books
- England 2 of 12 books
- Mystery & detective 2 of 12 books
- Sherlock Holmes (Fictitious character) 2 of 12 books