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This page lists novels and short story colelctions that feature the Victorian London chimney sweep and amateur detective Tom Wasp.

The cover images are of the first UK edition and a later digital edition.

Murder, 'Orrible Murder!

Amy Myers

2006

A collection of short stories that includes stories that feature Auguste Didier and Tom Wasp.

"Auguste Didier, a master chef in Victorian London, flits from Queen Victoria's jubilee to the home of the Rightful King of England, pursuing his love of exquisite food while constantly being distracted by murder. Chimney sweep Tom Wasp walks the streets of East London with his chummy, young Ned, righting the many wrongs he comes across. Aphrodite, when she can take time off from her main duty of looking after the love life of the gods, including her own, proves a keen detective — particularly when her own interests are threatened. Other investigators include an ardent fan of Rudolph Valentino, and even Sherlock Holmes cannot bear to be excluded. Amy Myers’s stories are filled with humor and a love of history."

• Murdering Mr. Boodle
• Murder At The Jubilee
• Murder At The Picnic
• The Rightful King Of England
• Murder At The Soiree
• Murder In The Pineapple Pit
• Aphrodite's Trojan Horse
• Who Killed Adonis?
• Who Killed Dido?
• Who Killed Pyramus?
• Tom Wasp And Anybody's Child
• Murder, 'Orrible Murder
• A Case For Judge And Jury
• The Case Of The Faithful Retainer
• Footsteps In The Snow
• Happy The Man
• Valentino's Valediction

Tom Wasp and the Murdered Stunner

Amy Myers

2007

A Tom Wasp novel.

"A chimney sweep in Victorian London’s poverty-stricken East End, Tom Wasp is highly flattered to be asked to model for Valentine Drake, a painter in fashionable Chelsea, especially since his co-model is the beautiful and warm-hearted Bessie Barton, a red-headed stunner who becomes his friend. Grief-stricken when her body is found by mudlarks on the muddy banks of the river Thames, Tom vows to find her murderer. Tracking her pitiful past through London’s seamiest quarters, he discovers the monstrous shadow that hangs over her life, Moonman, from whose clutches Bessie had fled, only to fall into his murderous hands at last. But who is Moonman? Is he one of the Angels, the high-minded group of artists to which Valentine belongs? Or is the truth more terrifying still? Step by step Tom hunts down his quarry through the darkness, guided by his faith that there is goodness in this world as well as evil, and assisted by his chummy, the eleven-year-old Ned."

Tom Wasp and the Newgate Knocker

Amy Myers

2010

A Tom Wasp novel.

"When chimney sweep Tom Wasp visits his friend Eliza Hogg in Newgate Prison in January 1863, on the day before she is due to be hanged, he is surprised to be given the only thing of value she possesses—and even more surprised when that turns out to be a pawn ticket. Tom’s apprentice, twelve-year-old Ned, is disappointed that the pawned item was only a scruffy sailor doll. Some days later however, they find its hidden secret... That secret not only sets the two most notorious gangs of London’s East End, the Rat Mob and the Nichol Gang, at each other’s throats, but brings about a tense international situation at a time when the Prince of Wales is about to marry a Danish princess. When Dinah, the daughter of the leader of the Rat Mob, is found murdered, Tom resolves to find her killer for the sake of his friend, her sister Jemima. Helped by Ned and the self-appointed Bug Destroyer to Her Majesty, the redoubtable Mr Chuckwick, Tom pursues the trail through dangerous waters until he reaches the frightening truth behind two murders and the motives for them."