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Auguste Didier Books in Order

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See the Auguste Didier mysteries by Amy Myers in order, with book summaries, series background, and help choosing your first Victorian chef-detective mystery.

Last updated: June 10, 2026

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11 books

1

Murder in Pug's Parlour

by Amy Myers

1986

At a shooting party at Stockbery Towers, the steward is found poisoned in Pug's Parlour. Suspected because of the food, master chef Auguste Didier turns detective to clear his name before another death follows.

2

Murder in the Limelight

by Amy Myers

1987

Auguste Didier leaves Kent for the Galaxy Theatre in London's West End, where he cooks for high society and works behind the scenes. Amid chorus-line glamour and opening-night nerves, a killer strikes.

3

Murder At Plums

by Amy Myers

1989

When the once all-male club Plum's agrees to admit women, odd pranks begin to trouble its calm respectability. Then poison and a dead member force Auguste Didier to hunt a killer in very polite surroundings.

4

Murder at the Masque

by Amy Myers

1991

Hoping for peace in Cannes, Auguste Didier instead finds himself near a series of jewel thefts linked to Faberge eggs. By the time a cricket match and old passions come into play, murder is close behind.

5

Murder Makes an Entree

by Amy Myers

1992

A Dickens-themed banquet in Broadstairs ends badly when the chairman of the Society of Literary Lionisers collapses and dies. Auguste Didier has to defend his cooking and help uncover how the poison was delivered.

6

Murder Under the Kissing Bough

by Amy Myers

1992

Christmas at Cranton's Hotel promises boar's head, ghost stories, and a house full of distinguished guests. Instead, Auguste Didier finds murder in the corridors and whispers of a plot against the Prince of Wales.

7

Murder in The Smokehouse

by Amy Myers

1994

At a Yorkshire estate preparing for a royal banquet, Auguste Didier's curious wife Tatiana discovers a body in a gloomy smoking folly. What follows is a locked tangle of identity, secrets, and possible murder.

8

Murder At The Music Hall

by Amy Myers

1995

Auguste Didier takes a temporary job at a shabby East End music hall, officially as chef and unofficially as bodyguard to a worried comedian. When the performer dies on stage, the search for the killer begins at once.

9

Murder In The Motor Stable

by Amy Myers

1996

A motoring run from London to Canterbury and the trial of a new electric car bring Auguste Didier into the orbit of inventors, rivals, and social climbers. Once murder breaks out, the kitchens are only part of his problem.

10

Murder with Majesty

by Amy Myers

1999

In the spring of 1905, a picture-perfect village wedding prepares for a royal guest and an American heiress bride. Auguste Didier arrives to cook the banquet, then finds murder, deception, and a threat closing in on him.

11

Murder in the Queen's Boudoir

by Amy Myers

2017

At the Petit Trianon in 1906, a staged attempt to lure out Marie Antoinette's ghost goes badly wrong. The body found in the queen's bedchamber is all too real, and Auguste Didier has to find the killer.

Series background & context

Auguste Didier is the character who started Amy Myers's crime fiction career, and you can see why he lasted. He is a master chef in the late Victorian and Edwardian years, half French and half English, proud of his craft, sensitive about food, and forever being dragged into murder when he would much rather concentrate on a proper menu. That reluctance is part of the charm.

He never sets out to be a detective.

The series moves through clubs, country houses, hotels, theatres, seaside banquets, royal occasions, and all the other places where a first-rate chef might be needed. That gives the books an unusually wide social range. Auguste can be working below stairs one moment and dealing with titled families, performers, diplomats, or even members of the royal circle the next. Food is never just decoration here. It is part of the rhythm of the books, and sometimes part of the crime.

What makes the series work so well is the balance between comfort and disruption. Myers clearly enjoys the detail of kitchens, service, hospitality, and period manners, but she is equally interested in what goes wrong behind the scenes. Jealousy, vanity, snobbery, money worries, sexual politics, and old grudges all simmer away under the surface. Auguste sees more than most because he occupies an awkward in-between position. He is needed by the great and the good, but he is still a working man with his own pride and outsider's eye.

Inspector Egbert Rose of Scotland Yard is an important part of the series too. The books are not built on a flashy double act, but the understanding between Rose and Auguste gives them steadiness. Rose brings official authority. Auguste brings instinct, social reach, and attention to detail. Together they make their way through some wonderfully unlikely settings, from gentlemen's clubs and Christmas hotels to music halls and French royal ghosts.

Readers who enjoy historical mysteries often come to this series for the food and stay for the tone. The books are witty, observant, and full of period texture without becoming heavy. If you want a detective who solves murders while worrying about sauces, banquets, kitchens, and the insult of bad cooking, Auguste Didier is very hard to beat.

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