Works on architecture •
The English Home (1959) •
European Architecture in Colour: from the Greeks to the Nineteenth Century (1961) •
Victorian Architecture (1966) •
Le Corbusier (1972) •
Concise History of Western Architecture (1984)
Television documentaries •
The Rape of Utopia: the Disenchanted City (BBC, 1964) •
Spirit of the Age - Eight Centuries of British Architecture (with Alec Clifton-Taylor, John Julius Norwich, Roy Strong, John Summerson, Mark Girouard, Patrick Nuttgens, Hugh Casson) (1976)
Detective novels •
The Ingenious Mr Stone (1945): a detective story about the poisoning of the ultra-
High Church headmistress of a girls' school in Devonshire • ''Let's Talk of Graves, of Worms, of Epitaphs'' (1975): . A fictional account of an Anglican clergyman who becomes Pope, loosely based on
Lytton Strachey's life of
Cardinal Manning • ''Oh, Where are Bloody Mary's Earrings?'' (1972): concerns a pair of earrings given as a wedding present by
Philip II of Spain to
Mary I of England, and the times they were stolen or copied between then and the Edwardian period •
The Homicidal Colonel (1970): concerns a
psychopathic colonel from the American Deep South who reinvents himself as an English country squire and later disappears back to America, there committing a series of sex murders. •
The Month of the Mangled Models (1977): a series of murders set at the time of the
Pre-Raphaelite and
Arts and Crafts movements ==References==