Inspector Lynley · Book 6

Missing Joseph

Published
1 January 1993
Pages
567
ISBN-13
9780593021194
Type
novel
Cover of Missing Joseph

About this book

Missing Joseph (1993), the sixth entry at 567 pages, keeps Lynley and Havers's odd-couple partnership central as George's novels grow denser and longer across the series.

Key facts about Missing Joseph

Elizabeth George wrote Missing Joseph, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1993. The book has 567 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780593021194 to find the main one.

Missing Joseph is book 6 of 22 in the Inspector Lynley series. The series has 22 published books. However, the series starts with A Great Deliverance (1988). A Slowly Dying Cause is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 23 September 2025.

Additionally, Elizabeth George writes Whidbey Island as a separate series. Those series sit on our police procedural and young adult mystery shelves. Meanwhile, A Slowly Dying Cause is the latest published Elizabeth George book on file, from 23 September 2025.

About Elizabeth George

Elizabeth George is an American author best known for the Inspector Thomas Lynley series of British crime novels, an unusual case of an American writer working almost entirely within English settings and class dynamics. See every Elizabeth George book in order.

Its place in Inspector Lynley

Missing Joseph is book 6 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows For the Sake of Elena. It is followed by Playing for the Ashes. See the full Inspector Lynley reading order.

Thomas Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton, is a Scotland Yard detective who happens to be minor aristocracy — a premise Elizabeth George uses to explore British class friction from the inside, especially through his prickly, working-class partner DS Barbara Havers, whose resentment of and eventual loyalty to Lynley is one of the great slow-burn partnerships in crime fiction. George, an American writing English detective fiction with unusual authority, builds each novel as a dense, doorstop-length literary mystery…

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