- Enchanted Caravan (1949) (ASIN: B0006ary4y)
- Carnival Gypsy (1950) (ASIN: B000jkb0oq)
- Ragamuffin Alley (1951) (ASIN: B0006astpm)
- The Calico Year (1953) (ASIN: B000gabx14)
- Four Party Line (1954) (ASIN: B001k36208)
- Papa Dolphin’s Table (1955) (ASIN: B000moc1qk)
- Girl in Buckskin (1956) (ISBN 978-0449703809)
- Heartbreak Street (1958) (ASIN: B00209ktic)
- Witch’s Silver (1959) (ASIN: B0006avz6m)
- Masquerade (1961) (ASIN: B0006ax1im)
- Heart’s Design (Masquerade Republished (1963) (ASIN: B000ts8al4)
- Ten Leagues to Boston Town (1963) (ASIN: B0006ay2v2)
- The Bells of Freedom (1963) (ASIN: B001u11ad4)
- Uncertain Voyage (1967) (ISBN 978-0449216286)
- Clairvoyant Countess (1975) (ISBN 978-0449213186)
- A Nun in the Closet (1975) (ISBN 978-0449211670)
- A New Kind of Country (1978) (reissued by Fawcett in 1989) (ISBN 978-0449216279)
- The Tightrope Walker (1979) (ISBN 978-0449211779)
- The Maze in the Heart of the Castle (1983) (ISBN 978-0449703984)
- Incident at Badamya (1989) (ISBN 978-0449217214)
- Caravan (1992) (ISBN 978-0345492371)
- Thale’s Folly (1999) (ISBN 978-0449003657)
- Kaleidoscope (2002) (ISBN 978-03454482170)
The Mrs. Pollifax series
- The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1966) (ISBN 978-0449208281)
- The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax (1970) (ISBN 978-0449209127)
- The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax (1971) (ISBN 978-0449215234)
- A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax (1973) (ISBN 978-0449208649)
- Mrs. Pollifax on Safari (1977) (ISBN 978-0449215241)
- Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station (1983) (ISBN 978-0449208403)
- Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha (1985) (ISBN 978-0449209837)
- Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle (1988) (ISBN 978-0449215159)
- Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish (1990) (ISBN 978-0449147603)
- Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief (1993) (ISBN 978-0449149058)
- Mrs. Pollifax Pursued (1995) (ISBN 978-0449149560)
- Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer (1996) (ISBN 978-0449150047)
- Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist (1997) (ISBN 978-0449183366)
- Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled (2000) (ISBN 978-0449006702)
Other
- (Contributor) On Creative Writing 1964
- A New Kind of Country (nonfiction), 1978
- Contributor to Good Housekeeping, Jack and Jill, Redbook, Ladies' Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Writer, and other magazines; contributor of short stories, under name Dorothy Gilman Butters, to Redbook.
Media Adaptations
Mrs. Pollifax...Spy was filmed by United Artists in 1970 as "Mrs. Pollifax--Spy," starring Rosalind Russell.
Angela Lansbury starred in the made-for-TV movie
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax in 1999. She was directed by her son, Anthony Pullen Shaw.