List of works by Dornford Yates
Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the English novelist Cecil William Mercer, whose novels and short stories, some humorous, some serious thrillers, were best-sellers in the period between the First and Second World Wars.
The categorization of Yates's books is based on the list that appears opposite the title page of his last published work, B-Berry and I Look Back. All are full-length novels except where noted. Almost all of the tales in the short story collections were also published separately, often in slightly different form and with different titles in The Windsor Magazine: see the corresponding book article for details.
'Berry' books
The 'Berry' books are comic novels and short stories narrated in the first person by Boy Pleydell. They feature the family group of Berry Pleydell, Daphne Pleydell, Jonathan 'Jonah' Mansel and Jill Mansel.Title | Year of first publication | First edition publisher | Notes | |
The Brother of Daphne | 1914 | Ward Lock & Co | Short stories, originally published in The Windsor Magazine | |
The Courts of Idleness | 1920 | Ward Lock & Co | Short stories, originally published in The Windsor Magazine | |
Berry and Co. | 1921 | Ward Lock & Co | Short stories, originally published in The Windsor Magazine | |
Jonah and Co. | 1922 | Ward Lock & Co | Short stories, originally published in The Windsor Magazine | |
Adèle and Co. | 1931 | Hodder and Stoughton | Novel | |
And Berry Came Too | 1936 | Ward Lock & Co | Short stories, originally published in The Windsor Magazine | |
The House That Berry Built | 1945 | Ward Lock & Co | Novel | |
The Berry Scene | 1947 | Ward Lock & Co | Short stories | |
As Berry and I Were Saying | 1952 | Ward Lock & Co | Fictionalised memoirs | |
B-Berry and I Look Back | 1958 | Ward Lock & Co | Fictionalised memoirs |
'Chandos' books
The 'Chandos' books are adventure novels narrated in the first person by Richard William Chandos. They often feature Jonathan Mansel, George Hanbury, and their respective menservants Bell, Carson and Rowley.Title | Year of first publication | First edition publisher | Notes | |
Blind Corner | 1927 | Hodder and Stoughton | Published in abridged form in Short Stories magazine as "The Treasure of the Well" | |
Perishable Goods | 1928 | Hodder and Stoughton | Sequel to Blind Corner | |
Blood Royal | 1929 | Hodder and Stoughton | Novel, set in the fictional Principality of Riechtenburg. | |
Fire Below | 1930 | Hodder and Stoughton | By Royal Command in the US. Sequel to Blood Royal. | |
She Fell Among Thieves | 1935 | Hodder and Stoughton | Novel. Serialised in Woman's Journal. | |
An Eye for a Tooth | 1943 | Ward Lock & Co | Novel, set immediately after the events of Blind Corner. | |
Red in the Morning | 1946 | Ward Lock & Co | Were Death Denied in the US. Follows on directly from Gale Warning | |
Cost Price | 1949 | Ward Lock & Co | The Laughing Bacchante in the US. Sequel to Safe Custody |