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James Hadley Chase

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There’s always a price tag – James Hadley Chase

Thriller Book Club Edition undated vg+/vg+ Posted to you – as long as you are in the UK

£5.00

Lay her among the lilies – James Hadley Chase

1953 Robert Hale reprint ex-library dj vg unclipped book vg- In shop £2.50, through post to UK £5.00

£5.00

Shock Treatment – James Hadley Chase

1959 Robert Hale 1st edition dj vg unclipped book vg- (foxing on fore edge and on a number of pages) In shop £2.50 through post (UK) £5.00

£5.00

you’ve got it coming – James Hadley Chase

Robert Hale 1st edition 1955 vg-/vg Posted to any UK location

£5.00

Just Another Sucker – James Hadley Chase

Thriller Book Club Edition 1961 1st edition. vg/vg Posted to UK address

£5.00

Tiger by the Tail – James Hadley Chase

Thriller Book Club edition 1955 vg/vg

£5.00

Knock Knock who’s there – James Hadley Chase

Robert Hale ex-library Copy (reading Copy) Posted to UK address

£4.00

Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Price	Condition	Date	Edition
Chase James Hadley	An Ear to the Ground	Panther	£2.50
Chase James Hadley	Believed Violent	Panther	£2.50
Chase James Hadley	Come Easy-Go Easey	Panther	£2.50	vg		rep
Chase James Hadley	Goldfish Have no Hiding Place	Corgi	£2.50
Chase James Hadley	Hit and Run	Robert Hale	£2.50	vg
Chase James Hadley	Lady Here’s Your Wreath	Jarrods	£6.00	vg
Chase James Hadley	Lady-Here’s your Wreath	Panther	£2.50	vg-	1961	1st
Chase James Hadley	Lay Her Among the Lilies	Panther	£2.50	vg+		1st
Chase James Hadley	Miss hemingway Waves a Hand	Panther	£4.00	f
Chase James Hadley	Miss Shumway Waves a Hand	Panther	£2.50	vg
Chase James Hadley	My Laugh Comes Last	Corgi	£2.50
Chase James Hadley	No Orchids for Miss Blandish	Panther	£2.50	vg		1st
Chase James Hadley	No Orchids for Miss Blandish	Panther	£2.50	vg	1961	1st
Chase James Hadley	Safer Dead	Robert Hale	£10.00	vg	1956
Chase James Hadley	Strictly for Cash	Panther	£5.00	vg+		1st
Chase James Hadley	The Dead Stay Dumb	Panther	£2.50	vg
Chase James Hadley	The Doll’s Bad News	Panther	£2.00
Chase James Hadley	The Doll’s Bad News	Panther	£2.50
Chase James Hadley	The Soft Centre	Corgi	£2.50
Chase James Hadley	The Vulture is a Patient Bird	Panther	£2.50
Chase James Hadley	The wary Transgressor	Panther	£5.00	f	1969	4th
Chase James Hadley	The World in my Pocket	Panther	£2.50	vg
Chase James Hadley	Tiger by the Tail	Panther	£2.50
Chase James Hadley	Trusted Like a Fox	Corgi	£2.50
Chase James Hadley	We’ll Share a Doule Funeral	Corgi	£2.50
Chase James Hadley	What’s Better than Money?	Panther	£2.50	vg		1st
Chase James Hadley	You’ve Got it Coming	Panther	£2.50

I have not found a way to include a PayPal block that allows choice so unfortunately you will have to contact me by phone or e-mail to purchase any of the above, postage and package for a single paperback in UK is £2.00, it obviously gets cheaper (per copy) if you make multiple purchases.

PERMA Books

July 14, 2021July 5, 2021notinheckmondwikebookshopLeave a Comment

Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Price	Condition	Date	Edition
Appell George Charles	Massacre Trail	Perma	£4.00	vg	1955	1st
Avallone Michael	Dead Game	Perma	£2.50	g		1st
Bourjaily Vance	The Hound of Earth	Perma	£5.00
Brestin Howard	Shad Run	Perma	£2.50
Breuer Bessie	Memory of Love	Perma	£2.50	vg	1953	1st
Brick John	The Rifleman	Perma	£5.00	vg	1954	1st
Derby Mark	The Big Water	Perma	£3.50	vg	1955	1st
Eisenhower Dwight D	Crusade in Europe	Perma	£5.00	vg	1952	1st
Ermine Will	Frenchman’s River	Perma	£2.50	vg-	1955	1st
Frazee Steve	Tumbling Range Woman	Perma	£2.50	vg	1956	1st
Grew William	Doubles in Death	Perma	£3.50	vg	1955	1st
Htchens B&D	F.O.B. Murder	Perma	£2.50
Humphrey William	Home from the Hill	Perma	£2.00
Huston HC	With Murder for Some	Perma	£5.00	vg	1954	1st
Jennings John	The Sea Eagles	Perma	£2.50
Kent MF	The Corsair	Perma	£1.00
Lancaster Bruce	The Secret Road	Perma	£3.00	vg	1955	1st
McBain ed	The Mugger	Perma	£3.00
Palmer Stuart	Unhappy Hooligan	Perma	£2.50
Queen Ellery Editor	Ellery Queen’s Awards tenth Series	Perma	£2.50	vg	1957	1st
Slaughter FG	East Side General	Perma	£1.00
Slaughter Frank G	The Road to Bithynia	Perma	£2.50	vg	1953
Sylvester Robert	The Big Boodle	Perma	£3.50	vg	1955	1st
Vincent Richard	Red	Perma	£2.50
Wolf Mari	The Golden Frame	Perma	£3.00	vg-	1961	1st

I haven’t checked all the titles but I am 95% sure I know where I put them.

CALLAN

February 10, 2021July 14, 2021notinheckmondwikebookshopLeave a Comment

I remember watching the first two series as they were shown (pre video), the time when “anti-heroes” came into vogue. I thought Edward Woodward was super cool, then he did that ridiculous American series and managed to be a big enough drip to get burnt in a Straw Man.

I have two hard back first editions, both with water damage, one much worse than the other, thankfully the rarer book is in better condition. A Magnum for Schneider, which I have just watched on YouTube, the damage is a slight wrinkling to the dj, the book has no faults not clipped and no inscriptions. Death and Bright water has extensive repairs to the cover and the dj is stained and has bits of the flap missing.

Because of the condition of Death and Bright Water I am giving that free with the other book, it is available on line from £15 upwards. I am asking £50 for both books. Please ask me any questions if you are interested.

Two Callan Hard Backs A Magnum for Schneider & Death and Bright Water

Condition detailed above. The price below includes UK P&P

£60.00

I have paperback copies on offer for £2.50

A Red File for Callen – Dell paperback

Price below includes UK P&P

£4.00

Red File for Callan originally A Magnum for Schneider – Corgi Paperback

Price below includes UK P&P

£4.00

Very difficult to find in any format. This Corgi is just below VG.

James Mitchell Smear Job – a rare Callen Corgi

Price below includes UK P&P

£11.50

More Stock Checking

January 30, 2021January 28, 2021notinheckmondwikebookshopLeave a Comment

Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Price
Amis Kingsley	That Uncertain Feeling	Four Square	£2.50
Andrews John C	Such are the Valiant	Badger	£2.50
Austin George	Whitby Old Parish Church	Church	£2.50
Baber Douglas	Where Eagles Gather	Viking	£2.50
Bainbridge Beryl	A Quite Life	Fontana	£2.50
Banks F R	The Penguin Guides – Sussex	Penguin	£1.50
Bradley James L	No Man Divided	Badger	£3.00
Bradley James L	Sky Devils	Badger	£3.00
Brett John Michael	A Cargo of Spent Evil	Pan	£2.50
Brewer Gil	Appointment in Hell	Monarch	£1.00
Bruce Jean	Photo Finish	Corgi	£2.50
Butler Gerald	Mad With Much Heart	Jarrolds	£4.00
Butler Gerald	The Rainbow Had Black Edges	Jarrolds	£4.00
Clarke Arthur C	Earthlight	Ballantine	£2.50
Creasey John	Invitation to Adventure	Corgi	£1.00
Dexter John K	The Patriots	Badger	£3.00
Doyle Arthur Conan	The Hound of the Baskervilles	John Murray	£2.50
Doyle Arthur Conan	The Seven Percent Solution	Coronet	£2.50
Drayton LS	For Their Tomorrow	Badger	£4.00
Elwood Roger ed.	Invasion of the Robots	Paperback Library	£2.50
Enfield RL	Unseen Enemy	Badger	£3.00
Field Peter	The Land Grabber	Bantam	£2.50
Flannagan Roy	Luther	Lion Books	£2.50
Frizell Bernard	Julie	Panther	£1.00
Fuller Robert L	Pasport for the Damned	Badger	£2.50
Gollancz Victor	A Year of Grace	Penguin	£2.50
Higham Charles	Cecil B DeMille	Dell	£2.50
HMSO	Beaumaris Castle	HMSO	£2.50
HMSO	Dirleton Castle	HMSO	£2.50
HMSO	Skara Brae	HMSO	£2.50
Hoyle Trevor	Blakes 7 – Project Avalon	Arrow	£2.50
Jackson Alfred	The Churches of Scarborough	BPC	£2.50
Jackson LK	Operation Singapore	Badger	£2.56
Janson Hank	Angel Astray	Compact	£3.00
Janson Hank	Dateline Diane	Compact	£3.00
Janson Hank	Go With a Jerk	HJ	£5.00
Janson Hank	I for Intrigue	Compact	£2.50
Janson Hank	Reluctant Hostess	HJ	£2.50
Janson Hank	Sentence for Sin	HJ	£3.50
Knight Damon editor	A Century of Science Fiction	Pan	£2.50
Lamb John W	Bridlington Priory Church	BPC	£2.50
Lardner Ring	The Big Town	Bantam	£2.50
Larson Glen A	Battlestar Galactica The Photostory	Futura	£2.50
Leroux Gaston	The Foating Prison	Daily Express	£2.50
Martin Frank	For Such as We	Badger	£2.00
Martin LF	Hell Command	Badger	£2.50
Mauldin Bill	Back Home	Bantam	£2.50
Messenger Leonard	Just Glorious A Brief Memoir of		£2.50
Miller Wade	Kiss Her Goodbye	Lion Library	£2.50
Mulford Clarence E	Hopalong Cassidy	H&S	£3.00
Newby editor	Time Off on the Yugoslav Coast	Hodder	£2.50
O’Conner Edwin	The Oracle	Lion	£2.50
Paul Elliot	A Ghost Town on the Yellowstone	Bantam	£2.50
Peters Ludovic	Two Sets to Murder	Hodder	£2.50
Phillips Alan	Beaumaris Castle	HMSO	£2.50
Queen Ellery	The Most Wanted Man in the World	NEL	£2.50
Ray David	The End of the Fourth Reich	Panther	£4.00
Reade Charles	The Cloister and the Earth	Pan	£2.50
Richler Anton	Prelude to the Storm	Badger	£2.50
Saxon Ron	The Sweet Smell of Sin	Domino	£2.50
Silone Ignazio	Bread and Wine	Ace UK	£4.00
Tubb EC	Space 1999 – Breakaway	Orbit	£3.00
Wallace Edgar	The Frightened Lady	Hodder	£2.50
Willeford Charles	The Machine in Ward Eleven	Belmont	£5.00
Wood Andrew	The River Will Hide Me	Cherry Tree	£5.00
Yardley O Herbert	The Education of a Poker Player	Fontana	£2.50

DANGER MAN – Hell for Tomorrow by Peter Leslie

September 14, 2020August 26, 2020notinheckmondwikebookshopLeave a Comment

Not ever spelled out, but the obvious prequel to The Prisoner. It would be interesting to watch an episode now and see how it has stood the test of time. This is a first edition by Consul Books for sale at the bargain price of only £4.00

ARROW – Paperbacks Stock Check

February 19, 2020February 4, 2020notinheckmondwikebookshopLeave a Comment

I thought I had a few more titles but the stock check revealed some gaps, they may have been misfiled, but it is more likely that I have sold them and forgotten to update my records.

Arrow like other paperback publishers at the time had an eclectic spread of authors and subjects. It picking out covers to illustrate their range I seem to have missed the most prominent and prolific author they featured, Dennis Wheatley.

I always like to compare how illustrations change over time, sometimes influenced by a film or to justify a price increase (note the 20% increase in these two editions.

The range covers a non fiction account of miniature submarines, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, part of John Creasey’s prodigious output and an illustration of how language changes over time, though it is difficult to think what Ann Hepple’s book title could be meant to mean today.

Auther Title Publisher Letter Number Edition Date Cover Condition Price
Asquith Cynthia When Churchyards Yawn Arrow 679 vg £2.00
Ballard Todhunter West of Quarantine Arrow 501 1st Hank f £2.50
Bentley Phyllis Ring in the New Arrow 453 1st 1971 photo vg £2.50
Berge Victor Danger is my Life Arrow 461 1st anon vg+ £2.50
Borghese J Valerio Sea Devils Arrow 405 1st 1956 anon vg £2.50
Braddon Russell Those in Peril Arrow H 415 f £3.50
Braddon Russell Gabriel Comes to 24 Arrow 631 1st 1962 anon vg £2.00
Breihan Carl W Outlaws of the Old West Arrow 589 1st vg- £2.00
Bridges Yseult Saint with Red Hands Arrow 491 1st Vernon f £3.50
Brinton Henry Two to Slay Arrow 540 1st f £4.00
Broad Lewis The Truth About Oscar Wilde Arrow 470 1st 1957 anon g £1.00
Brookes Ewart To Enless Night Arrow J 408 vg+ £3.00
Brookes Ewart Nor on What Seas Arrow 510 1st 1958 Flint? f £4.00
Burns Robert E I am a Fugative from a Chain Gang Arrow 783 1st 1964 anon vg+ £2.00
Clark Leonard The River Ran East Arrow H 425 Tansley vg £2.00
Creasey John The House of the Bears Arrow 676 1st 1962 anon f £3.00
Creasey John The League of Light Arrow 717 1st vg- £2.50
Creasey John Palfrey v Shadow of Doom Arrow 734 1st Hall vg £3.00
Creasey John The Peril Ahead Arrow 780 1st anon vg £2.50
Creasey John The League of Dark Men Arrow 793 1st anon f £3.00
Creasey John The Death Miser Arrow 794 1st anon vg+ £3.00
Creasey John The Hounds of Vengeance Arrow 938 1st 1967 anon f £4.00
Creasey John The Mark of the Crescent Arrow 989 1st anon vg £2.50
Deal Borden Dragon’s Wine Arrow 756 1st Hall vg+ £3.00
Downes Terry My Bleeding Business Arrow 860 1st 1966 photo vg- £2.00
Fienburgh Wilfred No Love for Johnnie Arrow 606 1st 1960 Dion f £3.00
Fuchido & Okumiya Midway Arrow 614 1st anon vg £2.50
Gee Maurice The Big Season Arrow 755 1st 1964 anon vg £2.50
Grubb Davis One Foot in the Grave Arrow 925 1st 1966 anon vg £3.00
Harris John The Sea Shall Not Have Them Arrow 473 1st 1957 Blandford f £4.00
Harris John The Sleeping Mountain Arrow 935 1st anon vg+ £2.50
Harrison Richard Whitehall 1212 Arrow 497 1st 1958 Window vg £2.00
Hass Hans Under the Red Sea Arrow 406 anon vg £2.50
Hepple Anne The North Wind Blows Arrow 708 1st 1963 Connell? vg £2.50
Hepple Anne Gay Go Up Arrow 833 1st vg £1.50
Hocking Anne Poisoned Chalice Arrow 682 1st 1962 anon vg £2.50
Hossent Harry Run for your Death Arrow 883 1st Photo vg- £2.50
Jacob Naomi The Morning will Come Arrow 686 1st 1962 f £3.00
Jacob Naomi Private Gollantz Arrow 790 1st RH vg- £2.00
King William The Stick and the Stars Arrow 611 1st anon vg+ £2.50
Lee Edna The Web of Days Arrow HB 349 anon vg £2.50
MacArthur Wilson Simba Bwana Arrow 507 1st 1958 anon vg £2.50
Maupassant Guy De Mademoiselle Fifi Arrow 913 1st 1966 anon vg £2.50
Moorcock Michael The Rituals of Infinity Arrow 488 1st 1971 vg £2.50
Moorhead Alan Gallipoli Arrow 526 1st 1959 anon vg £2.00
Muskett Netta Middle Mist Arrow 566 2nd vg £2.00
Muskett Netta Scarlet Heels Arrow 879 1st anon vg £2.50
Muskett netta Flowers From The Rock Arrow 897 1st 1966 anon vg £2.50
Myers John Myer Dead Warrior Arrow 475 1st 1957 anon vg £2.50
Neill Robert Mist over Pendle Arrow 376 2nd 1962 Roger Hu?? f £2.50
Nordyke Lewis Wes Hardin Texas Gunman Arrow 555 1st 1960 o’connel vg £3.50
Orczy Baroness The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel Arrow 972 vg £2.00
Owen Frank The Campaign in Burma Arrow H 446 1st 1957 anon vg £3.50
Prendergast William Z Car Detective Arrow 856 1st 1966 anon vg £2.50
Procter Maurice The Chief Inspector’s statement Arrow H 367 1st Kenyon vg £3.00
Procter Maurice Hell is a City Arrow 453 1st vg £4.00
Ruark Robert C Horn of the Hunter Arrow 479 1st anon vg £2.50
Ruesch Hans The Racer Arrow 467 £3.00
Sapper Bull-Dog Drummond Arrow 616 1st 1961 vg £3.00
Sapper The Black Gang Arrow 617 1st 1963 Stowe vg+ £5.00
Seaton George John Isle of the Damned Arrow 400 2nd Berry vg £2.00
Simenon Maigret and the Young Girl Arrow 12 1st 1958 vg £2.50
Simenon Maigret’s Little Joke Arrow 571 rep vg- £1.50
Slaughter Frank G Spencer Brade Arrow 538 1st 1959 Hall f £3.50
Slaughter Frank G Sword and Scapel Arrow 600 1st anon vg+ £2.50
Slaughter Frank G Lorena Arrow 645 1st anon vg £2.00
Slaughter Frank G Epidemic Arrow 685 1st anon vg+ £2.50
Slaughter Frank G Darien Venture Arrow 711 1st anon vg- £1.50
Slaughter Frank G The Golden Ones Arrow 722 1st 1963 anon vg £3.00
Smith Frederick E 633 Squadron Arrow 492 1st 1958 vg- £2.00
Spain Nancy Thank You Nelson Arrow H 420 1st Sax vg+ £2.50
Stoker Bram Dracula Arrow 272 10th 1971 photo vg £2.50
Stoker Bram Dracula Arrow 370 rep 1960 anon vg £5.00
Stoker Bram The Lair of the White Worm Arrow 585 1st Stowe vg- £2.50
Stoker Bram The Lady of the Shroud Arrow 644 1st 1962 vg £4.00
Stoker Bram Dracula’s Guest Arrow 916 vg £2.50
Swinson Arthur Sergeant Cork’s Casebook Arrow 836 1st 1965 photo vg £2.50
Tack Alfred PA to Murder Arrow 988 1st 1967 photo vg £2.50
Taine John G.O.G.666 Arrow 705 1st Sheldon vg+ £3.00
Thomson (ed) More Not at Night Arrow 608 2nd 1963 anon vg £2.00
Thomson C C ed Still Not at Night Arrow 671 1st 1962 anon vg- £2.00
Thorndike Russell Docter Syn Returns Arrow 541 2nd 1963 anon vg £3.00
Thorndike Russell The Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn Arrow 742 r anon vg £2.00
Thorwald Juergen Flight in the Winter Arrow 490 1st Morgan vg £2.50
Vaculik Serge Air Commando Arrow 401 vg £2.50
Various Not at Night Arrow 586 1st anon vg £2.50
Wallace Edgar Big Foot Arrow 407 2nd 1961 anon vg- £2.00
Wallace Edgar The Missing Million Arrow JL 418 rep anon vg £2.50
Wallace Edgar On the Spot Arrow 464 3rd anon vg £2.00
Wallace Edgar The Avenger Arrow 477 3rd 1962 anon vg+ £3.00
Wallace Edgar When the Gangs Came to London Arrow 481 3rd anon vg £2.50
Wallace Edgar The Missing Million Arrow 570 1st K. vg £3.00
Wallace Edgar The Face in the Night Arrow 593 1st 1961 O’Connell vg £2.50
Wallace Edgar The Mixer Arrow 642 1st 1966 photo vg- £2.00
Wallace Edgar The Twister Arrow 643 1st 1966 anon vg £2.50
Water Silas The Man With absolute Motion Arrow 795 1st vg- £1.50
Wheatey Dennis Star of Ill-Omen Arrow 378 2nd 1962 anon vg+ £2.50
Wheatley Dennis The Forbidden Territory Arrow 282 rep 1964 Heldon vg £2.50
Wheatley Dennis The Fabulous Valley Arrow 284 rep 1958 vg £2.50
Wheatley Dennis The Fabulous Valley Arrow 284 4th 1959 anon f £2.50
Wheatley Dennis They Found Atlantis Arrow 335 vg £2.50
Wheatley Dennis The Secret War Arrow H 336 vg £2.50
Wheatley Dennis The Sword of Fate Arrow 363 2nd 1958 Sax vg £2.50
Wheatley Dennis To the Devil a Daughter Arrow 412 rep 1963 Peff vg £3.00
Wheatley Dennis The Man Who Missed the War Arrow 534 2nd 1961 anon vg+ £2.50
Wheatley Dennis The Haunting of Toby Jugg Arrow 543 2nd 1961 anon vg- £2.00
Wheatley Dennis V for Vengeance Arrow 550 1st 1960 Steward vg+ £3.00
Wheatley Dennis The Black Baroness Arrow 558 1st anon vg £3.50
Wheatley Dennis Sixty Days to Live Arrow 559 1st 1960 anon vg £2.00
Wheatley Dennis Come Into My Parlour Arrow 578 2nd 1965 anon f £3.00
Wheatley Dennis Come into My Parlour Arrow 578 1st 1960 anon vg+ £2.50
Wheatley Dennis Uncharted Seas Arrow 580 1st 1960 Boldero vg+ £2.50
Wheatley Dennis Three Inquisative People Arrow 581 1st 1960 anon vg £2.50
Wheatley Dennis Contraband Arrow 582 2nd 1966 anon vg+ £2.00
Wheatley Dennis Contraband Arrow 582 1st 1960 anon vg £3.00
Wheatley Dennis The Prisoner in the Mask Arrow 603 1st 1964 vg- £2.00
Wheatley Dennis Codeword Golden Fleece Arrow 622 1st 1961 anon vg £2.50
Wheatley Dennis The Rising Storm Arrow 627 1st 1961 anon vg- £2.00
Wheatley Dennis Such Power id Dangerous Arrow 628 1st 1962 Tayler vg £2.50
Wheatley Dennis The Golden Spaniard Arrow 629 1st 1962 anon f £4.00
Wheatley Dennis The Satanist Arrow 653 4th 1964 anon vg+ £3.00
Wheatley Dennis Old Rawley Arrow 680 1st 1962 anon vg £3.00
Wheatley Dennis Gunmen Gallants & Ghosts Arrow 691 3rd 1966 anon vg £2.00
Wilson James Interrupted Journey Arrow 724 1st 1963 Hall f £3.50
Winn Godfrey ‘PQ’ 17 A Story of a Ship Arrow 430 2nd 1963 anon vg+ £3.00

James Patterson – Stock Check

May 16, 2019May 15, 2019notinheckmondwikebookshopLeave a Comment

Just a stock check of what I have on my shelves at the moment. All but the last four paperbacks, all available at £2.00 each

5th Affair
Pop Goes the Weasel
Hide and Seek
Cat and Mouse
Cross Mt Heart
Hope to Die
Tick Tock
Unlucky 13
Worst Case
Cross Country
Alex Cross’s Trial
I Alex Cross
Run for Your Life
Cross Justice
Cradle and All
Four Blind Mice
When the Wind Blows
The Jester

Dennis Wheatley

April 7, 2019October 9, 2019notinheckmondwikebookshopLeave a Comment

I Thought I had a good collection of his works, I knew he was prolific ( not John Creasey or Michael Moorcock prolific but prolific just the same) over 70 books. I do have, paperbacks, hardbacks, hardbacks with dust jackets and some 1st editions (one signed) in stock, mostly at £2.50 each but a few at £5.00. I have highlighted titles I have in stock in red on the bibliography below.

Dennis Yates Wheatley (1897 – 1977) was an English author whose prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world’s best-selling writers from the 1930s through the 1960s. His Gregory Sallust series was one of the main inspirations for Ian Fleming’s James Bond stories.

Born in South London, he was the eldest of three children of an upper-middle-class family, the owners of Wheatley & Son of Mayfair, a wine business. He admitted to little aptitude for schooling, and was expelled from Dulwich College. Soon after his expulsion Wheatley became a British Merchant Navy officer cadet on the training ship HMS Worcester.

During the Second World War, Wheatley was a member of the London Controlling Section, which secretly coordinated strategic military deception and cover plans. His literary talents gained him employment with planning staffs for the War Office. He wrote numerous papers for the War Office, including suggestions for dealing with a German invasion of Britain.

Dennis Wheatley died on 11th November 1977. During his life he wrote over 70 books and sold over 50 million copies.

Duke de Richleau series
The Forbidden Territory (Adventure, January 1933) – filmed in 1934
The Devil Rides Out (Occult/Romance, December 1934) – filmed in 1968
The Golden Spaniard (Adventure, August 1938)
Three Inquisitive People (Crime, February 1940)
Strange Conflict (Occult, April 1941)
Codeword – Golden Fleece (Espionage, May 1946)
The Second Seal (Historical/Espionage, November 1950)
The Prisoner in the Mask (Historical/Espionage, September 1957)
Vendetta in Spain (Historical/Espionage, August 1961)
Dangerous Inheritance (Crime, August 1965)
Gateway to Hell (Occult, August 1970)
Gregory Sallust series
Black August (Science Fiction/Adventure, January 1934)
Contraband (Espionage, October 1936)
The Scarlet Impostor (Espionage, January 1940)
Faked Passports (Espionage, June 1940)
The Black Baroness (Espionage/Crime, October 1940)
V for Vengeance (Espionage, March 1942)
Come into My Parlour (Espionage, November 1946)
The Island Where Time Stands Still (Espionage, September 1954)
Traitors’ Gate (Espionage, September 1958)
They Used Dark Forces (Espionage/Occult, October 1964)
The White Witch of the South Seas (Crime/Occult, August 1968)
Julian Day novels
The Quest of Julian Day (Adventure/Romance, January 1939)
The Sword of Fate (Adventure/Romance, September 1941)
Bill for the Use of a Body (Crime, April 1964)
Roger Brook series
The Launching of Roger Brook (Historical/Espionage, July 1947)
The Shadow of Tyburn Tree (Historical/Espionage, May 1948)
The Rising Storm (Historical/Espionage, October 1949)
The Man Who Killed the King (Historical/Espionage, November 1951)
The Dark Secret of Josephine (Historical/Espionage, March 1955)
The Rape of Venice (Historical/Espionage, October 1959)
The Sultan’s Daughter (Historical/Espionage, August 1963)
The Wanton Princess (Historical/Espionage, August 1966)
Evil in a Mask (Historical/Espionage, August 1969)
The Ravishing of Lady Mary Ware (Historical/Espionage, August 1971)
The Irish Witch (Historical/Espionage/Occult, August 1973)
Desperate Measures (Historical/Espionage, September 1974)
Molly Fountain / Colonel Verney novels
To the Devil – a Daughter (Occult, January 1953) – filmed in 1976
The Satanist (Occult, August 1960)
Other occult novels
The Haunting of Toby Jugg [Toby Jugg] (Occult, December 1948) – filmed in 2006 as The Haunted Airman
The Ka of Gifford Hillary [Gifford Hillary] (Occult/Science Fiction, July 1956)
Unholy Crusade [‘Lucky’ Adam Gordon] (Historical Adventure/Occult, August 1967)
Science fiction novels
Sixty Days to Live (X). [Lavinia Leigh and others] (Apocalyptic, August 1939)
Star of Ill-Omen (X). [Kem Lincoln] (Alien abduction, May 1952)
“Lost World” novels
They Found Atlantis [Camilla and others] (January 1936)
Uncharted Seas [Various] (January 1938) – filmed in 1968 as The Lost Continent
The Man Who Missed the War (X). [Philip Vaudell] (November 1945)

Other adventure/espionage novels
Such Power is Dangerous [Avril Bamborough] (Adventure, June 1933)
The Fabulous Valley [The Heirs of John Thomas Long] (Adventure, August 1934)
The Eunuch of Stamboul [Swithin Destime] (Espionage, July 1935) – filmed in 1936 as Secret of Stamboul
The Secret War [Sir Anthony Lovelace, Christopher Pen, Valerie Lorne] (Espionage, January 1937)
Curtain of Fear [Nicholas Novák] (Espionage, October 1953)
Mayhem in Greece [Robbie Grenn] (Espionage, August 1962)
The Strange Story of Linda Lee [Linda Lee] (Crime/Adventure, August 1972)

James Bond plus some unrelated titles.

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Needless to say, I have many (too numerous to list) Bond titles in stock. I nearly bought a hard back first with dj of Octopussy yesterday then I noticed it had 30 pages missing, also I have a perfect copy in my shop anyway. These two are; Live and Let Die 20th 1965 £2.50 and The Spy Who Loved Me 1st at £2.50.

Gladwell Richardson who I have never heard of, apparently was extremely prolific and respected in the Western Genre, though despite 190 listings on ABE, this title is not one of them, Trigger Fingers £3.00.

Puffin 34 – Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson £2.50.

Fehrenbach, The Battle of Anzio £2.50

Ronald Johnston; The Wrecking of Offshore Five £2.50

and bringing up the rear; The Prince’s Person by Roger Peyrefitte £2.00

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