Phyllis A. Whitney Books In Order

Phyllis A. Whitney Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. A Place for Ann (1941)
  2. A Star for Ginny (1942)
  3. A Window for Julie (1943)
  4. The Red Carnelian / Red is for Murder (1943)
  5. The Silver Inkwell (1945)
  6. Willow Hill (1947)
  7. Ever After (1948)
  8. The Mystery of the Gulls (1949)
  9. Linda’s Homecoming (1950)
  10. Mystery of the Strange Traveler / The Island of Dark Woods (1951)
  11. Love Me, Love Me Not (1952)
  12. Step to the Music (1953)
  13. The Mystery of the Black Diamonds (1954)
  14. A Long Time Coming (1954)
  15. Mystery on the Isle of Skye (1955)
  16. The Quicksilver Pool (1955)
  17. The Highest Dream (1956)
  18. The Fire and the Gold (1956)
  19. The Trembling Hills (1956)
  20. Skye Cameron (1957)
  21. Mystery of the Green Cat (1957)
  22. The Moonflower (1958)
  23. Secret of the Samurai Sword (1958)
  24. Creole Holiday (1959)
  25. Window on the Square (1960)
  26. Mystery of the Haunted Pool (1960)
  27. Thunder Heights (1960)
  28. Secret of the Tiger’s Eye (1961)
  29. Blue Fire (1961)
  30. Mystery of the Golden Horn (1962)
  31. Mystery of the Hidden Hand (1963)
  32. Seven Tears for Apollo (1963)
  33. Secret of the Emerald Star (1964)
  34. Black Amber (1964)
  35. Sea Jade (1964)
  36. Mystery of the Angry Idol (1965)
  37. Columbella (1966)
  38. Silverhill (1967)
  39. Secret of the Spotted Shell (1967)
  40. Hunter’s Green (1968)
  41. The Secret of Goblin Glen (1969)
  42. The Secret of the Missing Footprint (1969)
  43. The Mystery of the Crimson Ghost (1969)
  44. The Winter People (1969)
  45. Lost Island (1970)
  46. The Vanishing Scarecrow (1971)
  47. Listen for the Whisperer (1971)
  48. Nobody Likes Trina (1972)
  49. Mystery of the Scowling Boy (1973)
  50. Snowfire (1973)
  51. The Turquoise Mask (1974)
  52. Secret of Haunted Mesa (1975)
  53. Spindrift (1975)
  54. The Golden Unicorn (1976)
  55. Song of the Shaggy Canary (1976)
  56. The Stone Bull (1977)
  57. Secret of the Stone Face (1977)
  58. The Glass Flame (1978)
  59. Domino (1979)
  60. Poinciana (1980)
  61. Vermilion (1981)
  62. Emerald (1982)
  63. Rainsong (1984)
  64. Dream of Orchids (1985)
  65. Flaming Tree (1985)
  66. Silversword (1987)
  67. Feather on the Moon (1988)
  68. Rainbow in the Mist (1989)
  69. The Singing Stones (1990)
  70. Woman Without a Past (1991)
  71. The Ebony Swan (1992)
  72. Star Flight (1993)
  73. Daughter of the Stars (1994)
  74. Amethyst Dreams (1997)

Phyllis A. Whitney Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Writing Juvenile Fiction (1947)
  2. Writing Juvenile Stories and Novels (1976)
  3. Guide to Fiction Writing (1982)

Malice Domestic Books In Publication Order

  1. Malice Domestic 1 (By:Elizabeth Peters) (1992)
  2. Malice Domestic 2 (By:Mary Higgins Clark) (1993)
  3. Malice Domestic 5 (1996)
  4. Malice Domestic 7 (By:Sharyn McCrumb) (1998)
  5. Malice Domstic 8 (By:Margaret Maron) (1999)

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Phyllis A. Whitney Books Overview

The Red Carnelian / Red is for Murder

It’s Chicago, 1943. Linell Wynn, working at a department store, is hurt from her affair with Michael Montgomery. World War II is on, and good men are hard to find. Things get worse when he marries a younger employee, and then turns up dead. Everyone at Cunningham’s had a motive for killing Michael, particularly Linell. And when another corpse appears in the store, Linell finds that a red carnelian holds the murderer’s secret…

The Quicksilver Pool

A tense and moving story of a young woman who uncovers a scandal in her husband’s past with terrifying implications to herself. The author also wrote ‘Thunder Heights’, ‘Skye Cameron’, ‘The Red Carnelian’, ‘The Singing Stones’ and ‘Woman Without a Past’.

The Trembling Hills

Sara’s childhood has been haunted by dreams of a candlelit figure glimpsed in a mirror. She now decides to follow her true love, Ritchie Temple, to San Francisco. But Sara could not know about the terrors that were in store for her.

Skye Cameron

They said Justin Law had been in prison, that he was a murderer and worse. But from the moment Skye Cameron caught her first glimpse of him, her heart began to stir.

Secret of the Samurai Sword

When Celia and her brother Stephen visit Japan, they discover a guest with a message from the past the ghost of an ancient samurai soldier.

Window on the Square

Brandon Reid’s nine year old nephew is impossible to handle since accidentally shooting his father two years before. Reid asks Megan Kincaid to move into the Reid house and work with the troubled boy to curb his violent temper. As Megan learns more about Jeremy and the fateful shooting, she realizes that the boy’s father was murdered by someone else. Last published in 1981.

Mystery of the Haunted Pool

It’s a case of haunts along the Hudson in this spine tingler by a master maker of tingles for the younger set. Leaving her family in New York at the start of the summer vacation, Susan Price comes up the river to the little town of Highland Crossing, where her aunt runs an antique shop.

Secret of the Tiger’s Eye

Young Benita, visiting her aunt Persis in Cape Town, South Africa, becomes intrigued with the story of the ghost of a menacing tiger that haunts a nearby cave and sets out to see for herself with her new friend Charis.

Blue Fire

When Susan returns to South Africa as the wife of Dirk Hohenfield, she is both excited and apprehensive. Perhaps by seeing her estranged father, she can discover the answers to questions about her family that have haunted her for years.

Sea Jade

A historical novel set in the late 19th century in which a woman returns to Bascomb’s Point and soon has cause to regret her impulsive visit when she finds herself plunged into a loveless marriage and everyone in Bascomb’s Point apparently hostile towards her. From the author of AMETHYST DREAMS and DAUGHTERS OF THE STARS.

Columbella

‘Phyllis Whitney is, and always will be, the Grand Master of her craft.’ Barbara MichaelsJessica’s life was a closed book until she found herself entangled with the dangerous drama of a strange and passionate family. Searching for a new life on sultry St. Thomas Island, she is drawn into the wealthy family’s dark betrayals…
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Silverhill

From the day Malinda Rice first comes to Silverhill her mother’s home her hope turns to fear. But she will not run. For the beauty of Silverhill‘s setting hides more than one family’s secrets. And Malinda must fight for both her sanity and her life before she discovers the full, horrifying truth about the past evil and present terrors that may engulf her…
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Lost Island

Lacey, Elise and Giles. They grew up together on a mist shrouded island off the Georgia coast. Long ago, and without Giles ever knowing it, Lacey gave birth to his son. But Elise, the beautiful, domineering one, got Giles. She got Lacey’s child too, to bring up as her own. Lacey has tried to forget. But in ten years she has not been able to. So she’s going back. To see her son. To confront Elise. To exorcise the spell of the island and of Giles. Or perhaps to be trapped by them forever.

Listen for the Whisperer

Leigh Hollins was determined to find her mother the famous Hollywood actress Laura Worth. She found her all right, but it was not a happy reunion. For Laura was being haunted by the murderer who had killed the director of one of her movies twenty years earlier. Laura was being stalked, harrassed, and frightened near to death. And because Leigh was her daughter, someone would try to kill her too…
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From the Paperback edition.

Nobody Likes Trina

Through Trina, a re*tarded girl, Sandy learns that love of nature entails respect for all living things including man.

Snowfire

Graystones is a chic American ski resort. But Linda Earle, who hasn’t come for the winder sports feels a terrifying atmosphere on the icy slopes.

The Turquoise Mask

Something hidden deep in her memory was the key to Amanda Austin’s past, but she didn’t know that it was also the key to her future. Her father had kept her away from her mother’s family in New Mexico. Now, Amanda is alone and she has the chance to find the truth. But from the moment she arrives at her grandfather’s home, she is met with hate and suspicion. Her family seems like strangers to her, and one of them is a killer…

Secret of Haunted Mesa

Living in the shadow of her famous sister, Jenny tries to get attention by intruding on the life of a recluse whose growing friendship makes her aware of the cultural conflict of the local Indians.

The Golden Unicorn

Courtney had been the perfect adopted child. But around her neck hung a time bomb on a chain a tiny gold unicorn that brought her face to face with the violent intrigues of the past and the murderer her real mother had not escaped…
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Secret of the Stone Face

While staying with her mother in an old Victorian hotel, a young girl becomes entangled in a mystery involving a dangerous old mill, a labyrinth, and faked antiques.

Poinciana

The Palm Beach home of Ross Logan contains his celebrated collection of oriental art, and a prized new possession his terrified young bride…
. Adorning the Florida coastline stands Poinciana, the fabulous mansion of the Logan family. Inside its regal walls a volcano of intrigue and violent emotion has begun to erupt, and not one of the Logans is safe. Especially not Sharon Hollis Logan, the lovely young bride of patriarch Ross Logan. For reasons unknown to Sharon, Ross seems to be hated by Gretchen, his daughter from a previous marriage, by her ne’er do well husband, Vasily, and by Ross’s strange mother, Allegra and all their hostility is readily transferred to Sharon. But as she tries to find out why, Sharon uncovers a devastating secret about her own relationship with her husband a secret that, in the end, will test the limits of her courage as well as her ability to love…
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Vermilion

‘Romantic suspense at its wildest and most whimsical!’COSMOPOLITANWhen Lindsay received an anonymous and chilling note about her father’s sudden death, she went to his Arizona home to learn the truth about her own past a past her father would never talk about. She also had to discover anew her feelings for her sister’s husband Rick. As a child she had ignored him. Now as a woman she had to risk seeing him again and seeing the sister who had always hated her…
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Emerald

‘Phyllis Whitney is, and always will be, the Grand Master of her craft.’Barbara MichaelsCarol Hamilton is terrified of her ex husband, a wealthy and powerful man who will stop at nothing to take their son away from her. To escape him, Carol seeks refuge at the Palm Springs home of her great aunt, Monica Arlen, a once celebrated movie star. While under her spell, Carol, a journalist, decides to write a book about Monica. What she doesn’t realize, though, is that digging into the past is going to break open old and terrible secrets that set the stage for murder…
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Rainsong

‘A contemporary chiller romance…
Whitney drums up suspense at a delightfully frantic pace. Old fans and new ones can dig in with total confidence.’THE KIRKUS REVIEWSHollis Sands has never gotten over her husband Ricky’s death. She cannot believe he took his own life and wonders if it wasn’t really murder. Trying to escape her memories, she seeks peace at Windtop in Cold Spring Harbor. But strange and frightening things keep happening voices sing the song she wrote for Ricky and guitars play from nowhere. Windtop has become a trap, but Hollis Sands will not leave, until she discovers the truth, no matter how close to death that takes her…
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Dream of Orchids

Laurel York has dreamed of this reunion with her father, the famous writer Clifton York, for years. And when she follows him down to the exotic Florida Keys, both love and evil meet her in the form of handsome Marcus O’Neill, who welcomes her, but her two suspicious stepsisters do not. Then there is Clifton York himself, the strange man they all love, and the secret buried treasure that has lain undetected for years. Only the prize orchids waiting in the greenhouse hold the key to a life that Laurel has only dreamed about or a nightmare that can only end in murder…

Flaming Tree

A compassionate woman haunted by her past. A mysterious man who leads her to love. And the dangerous secret that is stronger than both of them. Kelsey Stewart is not thinking of love or adventure when she visits her aunt at her peaceful seaside inn nestled in beautiful Carmel, California. But when she is urged to help in the recuperation of Jody Hammond, a young boy who fell from a sea cliff, she finds her troubled heart coming back to life. And soon she finds herself falling in love with Jody’s father, the mysterious, handsome Tyler. From the Paperback edition.

Silversword

The last time Caroline Kirby saw handsome David Reed, she was only a child, back in the exotic days on Maui, where she lived with her parents before they were killed in a terrible accident. But she has never forgotten his voice, his eyes, or his kindness. Now, an adult, recently divorced, Caroline discovers her life has been built on deception, and to find the truth she must return to Maui and to the man she has never gotten out of her mind…
From the Paperback edition.

Rainbow in the Mist

Desperate for peace and safety, Christy Loren flees from her psychic gifts to the Blue Ridge Mountains and the reassuring presence of her Aunt Nona. But in this peaceful place, something wicked hides. Here, Christy knows the blood chilling dream that has haunted her will come to terrifying life. For someone will do anything to stop her from discovering the dark secret hidden in the mist…
or the love that, like a rainbow, awaits. From the Paperback edition.

The Singing Stones

Despite her misgivings, child psychologist Lynn McLeod returns to Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to help ten year old Jilly, her ex husband Stephen’s child. But what she finds at the secluded household are more questions. And the danger that threatens both Stephen and Jilly soon closes tightly around Lynn. And all the while, the soft, hypnotic sound in the wind the eerie yet beautiful music of The Singing Stones lures Lynn into a realm of mystery, murder, and dormant passion. And, perhaps, to the key to her own destiny…
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Woman Without a Past

In her thirty fifth novel of psychological suspense, Phyllis A. Whitney spins a spellbinding tale of a young woman’s quest to uncover her true identity. Successful young mystery novelist Molly Hunt, raised by adoptive parents on Long Island, is stunned when a chance encounter leads to a startling revelation. She is apparently the daughter of the aristocratic Mountfort family of Charleston, South Carolina, kidnapped as an infant from their ancestral home and has an identical twin sister. Travelling to Charleston, Molly meets her delicately lovely long lost twin; her mother’s stern cousin, now the family patriarch, doubtful of Molly’s identity and suspicious of her motives; and his tiny, enigmatic wife, a psychic who channels the spirit of a man who died mysteriously on the Mountfort estate a generation before. As Molly searches for the truth of her own origins, she comes to realize that the secrets of her troubled family’s past have a strange and powerful hold on the present. Her reappearance in the lives of the Mountfort clan sets in motion events that threaten the family’s very existence as well as her own.

The Ebony Swan

‘Energetic and richly textured…
If terror and murder can be rendered ladylike, Phyllis Whitney is just the lady to do it.’ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTIONSusan Prentice has come home to Virgina’s eastern shores, to the very spot where her mother fell to her death twenty five years before, also the home of Alex Montoro, her proud, intense grandmother. But Susan’s arrival has alarmed people who fear what may lie dormant in Susan’s memory. Especially Alex. For she believes her granddaughter is the only living witness to the tragedy. Together Alex and Susan must pry open the locked doors of the past, where burning passions, dark secrets, and hidden danger must be challenged to set the present free.

Daughter of the Stars

‘Were they all lying? Misleading me for their own purposes?…

Lacey Elliot has been a woman without a past since the day her mother whisked her off to Charlottesville, refusing for thirty years to speak of her father, her family, or her history.
But when Lacey intercepts a desperate letter from an aunt in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, Lacey sees her chance to confront the past that has terrified her mother and to fill in the gaps in her own life.
Against the charm and colorful, turbulent history of the picturesque town, the violent history of Lacey’s heritage is about to repeat itself. As she finds herself drawn to a man intrigued by the town for reasons of his own, old ghosts reappear and danger returns as a killer walks among them once more…
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‘Evocative, moving, suspenseful another surefire winner from the writer who taught all of us how it should be done.’
BARBARA MICHAELS
PHYLLIS A. WHITNEY IS A WINNER OF THE GRAND MASTER AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT FROM THE MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA

Amethyst Dreams

Shining with intrigue, allure, and passionate suspense, Amethyst Dreams is Phyllis Whitney at her most spectacular a story bejeweled with hypnotic prose and spellbinding secrets…
. Seeking shelter from her own broken dreams, Hallie Knight answers a cryptic plea for help from Nicholas Trench, the grandfather of her dearest friend. Susan mysteriously disappeared from home one night off North Carolina’s historical Topsail Island and Hallie is Nick’s last hope of finding her. But surrounding Nick is a family as headstrong as they are suspicious for at the heart of the matter is a vast inheritance. And as Hallie is lured deeper into a mystery nestled in a quagmire of bitterness, dark betrayal, and subtle menace, she becomes certain of one thing: this sunny, seaside paradise harbors dangerous and profoundly shattering secrets…
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Malice Domestic 1 (By:Elizabeth Peters)

A collection of mystery tales presents the work of such masters of the genre as Charlotte MacLeod, Barbara Paul, Charlotte and Aaron Elkins, and Audrey Peterson.

Malice Domestic 2 (By:Mary Higgins Clark)

An anthology of 17 tradidtional mysteries collected by master mystery writer Mary Higging Clark. Pages 6. 38′ x 4. 12′

Malice Domestic 7 (By:Sharyn McCrumb)

The Malice Domestic mystery is a mystery of manners. No blood, no body parts, just nice civilized murder. And in this collection, thirteen outstanding mystery writers explore the unlucky fates of those who indulge their most murderous fantasies.

Malice Domstic 8 (By:Margaret Maron)

Margaret Maron Presents MALICE DOMESTIC 8 An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories Bear witness to murder most fouls and its finest scribes: Nevada Barr Amanda Cross Mary Daheim Jonathan Gash Edward D. Hoch Susan Holtzer H.R.F. Keating Susan Kenney Alanna Knight Janet Laurence Miriam Grace Monfredo Sister Carol Anne O’Marie Abigail Padget & Douglas Dennis Sample a delectable bit of the mysterious, the bizarre, and the murderously outrageous Cyber love meets sabotage in a case of romance gone dreadfully wrong A writer with an exclusive story finds a way to keep his source quiet for good London during the blitz provides an excellent place to bury trouble AND MORE!

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