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James Pattinson
Book List in Order: 74 titles
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Wild Justice
- Dec-1989
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When Peter Hadley, second mate of the British tramp steamer Ocean Waif, goes ashore in Philadelphia looking for the sister from whom he has heard nothing for two years, he quickly finds himself caught up in a web of mystery and deceit. It does not t...
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The Poison Traders
- Jun-1995
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The trade route stretched over 3 continents. Investigating one part of it cost the life of a police detective, but that death might have been suicide. Detective Inspector Marler felt certain it was murder but to trace the murderers proved a difficult...
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Devil Under the Skin
- Dec-1995
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The Merrymakers concert party was near the end of the road. Howard Layton, player-manager of the troupe, sensed he was fighting a losing battle against the competition of cinema and radio, and his audiences in the small towns and villages of East Ang...
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The Animal Gang
- Mar-1996
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The Animal Gang carried out its robberies only in the houses of the rich and left no clues. No-one in the underworld seemed to know anything about them. But the gang had a weakness; a man whom Victor Braine regretted bringing in. Braine was the le...
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The Telephone Murders
- Jun-1996
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The caller on the telephone told Charles Rowan that he would give him a plot for his next novel. The man, who said his name was Hogan, claimed to be a murderer, and he told Rowan where to find the body. From then on, Rowan found himself drawn ever de...
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Fat Man from Colombia
- Jun-1997
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Kemp blamed himself; he should have kept in closer touch with his sister. Now it appeared Lorna had gone to Colombia with a man named Roberto Vargas. Apparently there had been a party at the house of a certain Barton Sanger but when Kemp went there t...
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One-Way Ticket
- Apr-1998
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Sometimes in his own mind Keele referred to himself as "The Booking Clerk." This was a rather macabre private joke since the tickets he issued were all one-way. Yet whatever he was called, his was a profitable occupation. The time came, however, when...
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Flight to the Sea
- Nov-1999
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1937: The Japanese have broken through the Great Wall of China. An ageing British ship, the ORIENT QUEEN, is the last of the ships to leave port, north of Shanghai. Fleeing in her are the few remaining refugees. They are an American missionary and...
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The Petronov Plan
- Feb-2000
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Ex-Marine Tom Cord, partnered by one-time Polish seaman Jan Kusiak, was scraping a bare living with his boat BUENAVENTURA when the two men came to him with a proposition: one million pesos for a small voyage along the coast. Cord was dubious about ac...
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The Spoilers
- Mar-2000
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Carlos Ortega was negotiating with a London merchant bank for a loan to buy land in Central America on which to expand his cattle-rearing enterprise. Paul Fraser was sent to assess the prospects for such an investment. He discovered there was bitter ...
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Silent Voyage
- Feb-2002
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World War II has ended and the Cold War is starting when Brett Manning is sent to do some business in the timber trade in Archangel. But on his way, in the thick fog and darkness of the Barents Sea, disaster strikes and his ship is run down by a muc...
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The Angry Island
- Aug-2002
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When Guy Radford goes to visit an old college friend on the West Indian island of St. Marien, he is blissfully unaware of the trouble he is flying into. For St. Marien is an island on the brink of revolution, where divisions of race and wealth have c...
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Obituary for Howard Gray
- Dec-2003
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Drake read the obituary for Howard Gray in the Daily Telegraph. It intrigued him because he had been very close to Gray many years ago, though they had lost touch later for reasons that were certainly not mentioned in the newspaper. Indeed, there was...
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The Rodriguez Affair
- Dec-2006
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Harry Banner turned up in London one November evening. He had just got back from Venezuela and he wanted to see Robert Cade. He'd known Cade six years earlier in Buenos Aires and now Banner wanted a small favour, just to keep a parcel until he called...
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The Unknown
- Mar-2008
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It was Mrs. Croyden who had been taken by the idea of digging up the history of the family. It seemed to be the kind of thing that everyone was doing nowadays. And once started she became more and more enchanted by the project. Even her husband Ge...
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Soldier, Sail North
- Jul-2009
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The gunners on the Golden Ray were a strangely assorted bunch. The seamen were more of a type, but the soldiers seconded to the job could hardly have differed more from one another. There was the professional, Sergeant Willis, in love with his job, V...
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Wind on the Heath
- Dec-2009
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When David Sterne went up to London to seek his fortune, Adolf Hitler was rampant and the shadow of impending conflict lay forebodingly over Europe. He was still struggling to make a living when war broke out and he was swept into it.Six years of his...
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Squeaky Clean
- Jan-2010
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One of the most important attributes of a prospective candidate for the United States presidency is that of being clean; not to have any dirt in your background, present or past, which an eager muckraker can dig up. Senator William S. Gaullicauder ap...
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A Passage of Arms
- Dec-2016
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When Daniel Gregg inherits some money, he knows exactly what to do with it. Leaving the merchant navy, he buys his own ‘tramp’ ship and goes into business with a friend, Frank Loder. Naming the ship W.H. Davies, together they travel the world, tr...
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Across the Narrow Sea
- Jan-2017
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Ready for the final assault… A vast armada was assembled for the D-Day invasion. Among them was a small coaster, the S.S. Radgate, her holds loaded with high-explosive shells and small arms ammunition…The crew aboard the Radgate, a crew varied i...
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Contact Mr. Delgado
- Jan-2017
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Harvey Landon agrees to help his friend, Don Vargas, who is plotting the overthrow of a South American government. The Revolutionaries, however, are without aircraft and, to obtain their supply, Landon volunteers to take a letter to a mysterious Mr. ...
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Death of a Go-Between
- Jan-2017
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The search for Arnie Walker was not a job that Sam Grant was particularly keen to undertake. But Miss Gloriana Goldstar was so pressing in her demand that he should do so, and Cynara Jones was so ardent in her support, that it became impossible to re...
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The Junk Run
- Jan-2017
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Paul White's misfortune is to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and it costs him dearly.It turns out to be unfortunate for a number of other people as well.White has a sister, Diana, and when his yacht is found drifting in the Atlantic, with n...
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Last in Convoy
- Jan-2017
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When a convoy of 45 ships tries to make it from Halifax to England, it finds progress sabotaged by an onslaught of enemy submarine torpedoes. Terror strikes the crews who are forced to witness their comrades drowning or becoming human torches amid th...
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Skeleton Island
- Aug-2017
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The island was uninhabited except for the skeleton.This bony relic could probably have told a very interesting story if it had been able to speak. But it could not, and the four young people who had stumbled upon it were presented with a puzzle which...
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On Desperate Seas
- Mar-2018
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A novel of man’s will to survive against all the odds.None of the crew is particularly gratified when the British tanker Rosa Dartle is chosen to carry a cargo of industrial alcohol from Philadelphia to Russia. For these are the dark days of World ...
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Dead Men Rise Up Never
- Oct-2019
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War is coming, but murder had arrived.“We thank with brief thanksgiving, whatever gods may be, that no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never.”When Arnie Taylor took the red MG from Brock’s Wood he had no idea it would make him a murd...
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The Antwerp Apppointment
Brady was in Antwerp on a small assignment when he ran across the girl he had known as Paula. It was a surprise, since she should have been going through her act at that scruffy little theatre in Gdansk. So what was she doing in Antwerp, and why, w...
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Away with Murder
It was to be easy money; all Steve Brady had to do was deliver a valuable book to a man in Amsterdam. Nevertheless, he was a shade suspicious - who had ever heard of a first edition of an algebra text-book being worth big money? Later, he was to wish...
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Bavarian Sunset
Sam Grant had to trace the vendor of a painting that had come up for sale at a London auction room. By a German Jewish artist who perished in a Nazi concentration camp, the painting was stolen from a schloss in Lower Saxony in World War Two. Then it ...
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Bullion
Alan Caley was far from delighted to receive a phone call from his old school pal Chuck Brogan. It was quite some time since he had last seen Brogan, who had taken part in a gold robbery and been sent to prison for a number of years. Caley felt incli...
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Busman's Holiday
Susan Sims wanted a holiday in Spain, but Sam Grant of the Peking Inquiry Agency persuaded her to settle for three weeks in a cottage on the North Norfolk coast. It was supposed to be restful and relaxing, but then Miss Sims happened to encounter an ...
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The Courier Job
Steve Brady had never been a very willing agent but, according to Pledger, this was a job that a child could carry out. When people like Manuel and Felipe started knocking hell out of him, Steve became even less willing. The carrying of a letter from...
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Dangerous Enchantment
Sam Grant was held up in traffic when the woman opened his car door and got in, saying she was being followed. Katrina Karpova was big trouble, even if she did bring in some badly-needed business for the newly-established Grant Inquiry Agency. She wa...
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Dead of Winter
She was standing in the middle of the road with the snow swirling round her and Maxted was only just able to stop the Jaguar quickly enough to avoid hitting her. He had an important assignment to carry out and the last thing he wanted was the encumb...
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The Deadly Shore
Nobody knew what caused the explosion that sent the M.V. SOUTHERN PIONEER to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. For Matthew King, the chief officer, the disaster was an opportunity to regain a command of his own, even if was only in an open boat with n...
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A Fatal Errand
John Clayton was touring the world but became involved, somewhat against his will, in guerrilla activities in a small Central American republic, recently taken over by a military junta. After a while he acquired a taste for the life; for the exciteme...
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Feast of the Scorpion
From the window of Mark Aston's apartment in the Central American city of Mendoza he could see a couple of hundred yards up the Avenida Almirante Diaz. Which was of no significance to Aston until some people came along who were particularly intereste...
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Final Run
It was exactly what Blade wanted; if he made good use of the ten thousand pounds he might never again feel obliged to do dicey jobs for people like Korvan. The only snag was that he didn't much care for the particular job he was being offered. True, ...
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The Golden Reef
When the S.S. Southern Queen encounters a life boat marked Valparaiso a boat that had been sunk by the Japanese a year earlier, a strange mystery begins. More interestingly the sunken ship carried gold. There was a man in the life boat and despite hi...
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The Honeymoon Caper
Steve Brady was not happy about taking on the job of accompanying lovely Linda Manning to Finland - he had been involved with her on a previous occasion and had only narrowly escaped with his life. However, the money was a pretty big consideration so...
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Legatee
Selina Blanch had apparently gone missing after leaving a troupe of dancers. Her estranged husband, Leonard Dowling was only concerned that he was unable to get his hands on the money she had left him in her will. He turned to Sam Grant for assistanc...
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The Liberators
English adventurer Harvey Landon is alone in New York--wanted by the police and with only a few dollars in his pocket. Then Theodore Cranefield offers him a job that he can't afford to refuse. Soon he is driving south with a gunman named Gregg to a r...
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The Murmansk Assignment
According to Winston Blake it was to be as simple as meeting someone off a train. All Paul Wyatt had to do was go to Murmansk and bring out a Polish biologist named Mickiewicz. To Wyatt it sounded crazy and scared him sick, but he needed the money. B...
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Ocean Prize
When a valuable cargo ship is abandoned in the mid-Atlantic, Captain Barling of the S.S. Hopeful Enterprise has very special reasons for wishing to tow it into port. But is he justified in risking men's lives for the sake of his own desires? Shipmate...
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Operation Zenith
Operation Zenith, designed as a propaganda exercise, appeals to Dr Goebbels who sells it to Hitler. Ten of the German navy's most highly trained men are required, and command of this task force falls to Captain Hans Brant, son of a naval hero, who lo...
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The Saigon Merchant
Clark Madden was in London on a pleasure trip, but something came up which made him alter his plans. So he put through a telephone call to his partner, Wayne Kregman, in New York. Kregman soon appreciated the need to join Madden in London, because if...
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Sea Fury
It was an oddly assorted company of passengers that boarded the S.S. Chetwynd in Hong Kong and Singapore to take passage to Fremantle. The old vessel, operated by a line that had a poor reputation, was the kind of ship that could hardly attract the f...
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Some Job
When Detective Sergeant Frank Devon was sent to the West Indian island of St Joseph on an exchange assignment, he was told that it would be more of a holiday than work. And so it would have been, if he had not begun to observe certain goings-on that...
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Something of Value
Enrique Olmedo, lying naked, bloody and bound in his luxurious drawing-room at Westerton Old Hall, had forty-two knife wounds in his body and only the last was lethal. But who had tortured and killed him, and why? One person who might have known wa...
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The Spanish Hawk
There were five dead men in the cabin of the boat, lying under six fathoms of Caribbean water. But the men had not been drowned -- they had been shot through the head at close range. John Fletcher had gone down to photograph a sunken ship, but he too...
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The Spayde Conspiracy
One summer night a freight train was hijacked in New Mexico. Rumour, strenuously denied by the United States Government, had it that a quantity of plutonium had been taken. Later, a top-rank nuclear physicist walked out of a Miami hotel and simply va...
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Special Delivery
All Roy Farrell had to do was deliver a briefcase to a man named Sampson - manager of the Lucky K gaming club - and wait while he opened it. But what followed added up to quite a packet of trouble for Farrell - and if it had not been for Gail Newcomb...
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Stride
At eighteen he was a hero, or so said Lucille in Liverpool; and he was in love with her. At twenty-eight the encounter with the Cuban Catalina left scars. At thirty-six he came out of the trouble with Sicilian Lucia a little wiser. At thirty-eight Ra...
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The Syrian Client
Sam Grant was none too keen on the job the Syrian client wanted him to do, but the sizeable deposit in ready money meant Grant really had no choice in the matter. Of course there were certain attractions in working for someone as lovely as Miss Yasmi...
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The Time of Your Life
In her determination to solve the mystery surrounding her husband's death, Margaret Calder turned to an old friend for help. Keith Brooke said he would do what he could, and his investigation takes him to far flung destinations....
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The Wheel of Fortune
The ocean is calling…John Baxter is not truly a seaman. John had served on a destroyer during the war and since then had gone back to work in the bank with his father.But no longer content with the daily office grind, he sets out to find work on th...
