Anthony Lyveden is a 1921 adventure novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer).

[2] The book was Mercer's first attempt at a full-length novel, and was succeeded by Valerie French which continued the story of the main characters.

The estate's owner, Colonel Winchester, becomes mad and leaves Lyveden in charge under a power of attorney.

The author was not a happy man at the time, his father having committed suicide early in 1921, and Mercer's biographer AJ Smithers reports a suggestion that at this date he was not far from suffering a nervous breakdown.

[5] He criticised the characterisations, suggesting that a reader might with some justice think the hero a pompous prig, one of the young women a humourless, suspicious creature, and the other a trollop manquée.