Jim Eldridge

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1999
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Black Ops

1 - Jungle Kill (May-2011)
2 - Death in the Desert (Jul-2011)
3 - Urban Assassin (Oct-2011)

A Cathedral Mystery

1 - Murder at St Paul's Cathedral (Apr-2025)

A DCI Paul Stark Mystery

1 - Assassins (Oct-2016)
2 - Shadows of the Dead (May-2017)

Disgusting Dave

1 - Disgusting Dave and the Farting Dog (Jun-2009)
2 - Disgusting Dave and the Bucketful of Vomit (May-2011)
3 - Disgusting Dave and the Flesh-Eating Maggots (May-2011)

Hotel Mysteries

1 - Murder at the Ritz (Jul-2021)
2 - Murder at the Savoy (Oct-2021)
3 - Murder at Claridge's (Apr-2022)

A London Underground Station Mystery

1 - Murder at Aldwych Station (Nov-2022)
2 - Murder at Down Street Station (Apr-2023)
3 - Murder at Lord's Station (Jul-2024)
4 - Murder at Whitechapel Road Station (Nov-2024)

The Malichea Quest

1 - The Invisible Assassin (Nov-2012)
2 - The Deadly Game (Dec-2012)
3 - The Lethal Target (Dec-2013)
4 - The Last Enemy (Apr-2014)

Museum Mysteries

1 - Murder at the Fitzwilliam (Nov-2018)
2 - Murder at the British Museum (Mar-2019)
3 - Murder at the Ashmolean (Sep-2019)
4 - Murder at the Manchester Museum (Jan-2020)
5 - Murder at the Natural History Museum (Aug-2020)
6 - Murder at Madame Tussauds (Jun-2021)
7 - Murder at the National Gallery (Jan-2022)
8 - Murder at the Victoria and Albert Museum (Aug-2022)
9 - Murder at the Tower of London (Jul-2023)
10 - Murder at the Louvre (Dec-2023)

Wrestling Trolls

1 - Big Rock and the Masked Avenger (Feb-2014)
2 - Hunk and Thud (Apr-2016)
3 - The Giant Rumble (Jun-2014)
4 - Thud in Trouble (Feb-2015)
5 - Jack Versus Veto (Jun-2015)
6 - The Final Showdown (Sep-2015)

Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • Tractor and Digger Save the Day

    'A fun storybook for children, and a way to explore friendships and jealousies.' Baby Magazine Max Tractor and Dougie Digger are vehicle cousins. They both show off and pretend to the other that their respective jobs are better and more important. In...

  • Disgusting Dave and the Farting Dog

    Disgusting Dave - 1

  • Disgusting Dave and the Bucketful of Vomit

    Disgusting Dave - 2

  • Disgusting Dave and the Flesh-Eating Maggots

    Disgusting Dave - 3

    Dave's disgusting. He has a dog that farts, and he's way too interested in snot and sick for his Aunt Dora's liking. But really, he only wants to find out about fascinating things like the human body, and creepy crawlies, and ... flesh-eating maggo...

  • Jungle Kill

    Black Ops - 1

    The first book in a new high-octane, adrenalin-fueled combat adventure series following the dangerous missions of a six-man Special Forces team Thrown out of the Special Air Service (SAS), Mitch thought his days as a specia...

  • Death in the Desert

    Black Ops - 2

    The second thrilling adventure in a gritty, realistic series dealing with warfare, combat, heroism, and male bonding Another day, another mission. Now a full-fledged member of the covert military squad Delta Unit, Mitch is thrust straight b...

  • Urban Assassin

    Black Ops - 3

    He was part of the unit . . . He was one of us. Mitch and the boys of Delta Unit are on their most dangerous mission yet, and this time, it's personal. The mission: to stop the assassination of the British Prime Minister by a ruthless, renegade k...

  • The Invisible Assassin

    The Malichea Quest - 1

    As a Junior Press Officer for the British government, Jake is sent to cover a 'non-story' - a demonstration against the construction of a laboratory on the supposed site of an ancient fairy ring. But what Jake sees there is shocking and terri...

  • The Deadly Game

    The Malichea Quest - 2

    Jake Wells has uncovered the shadowy and mysterious Order of Malichea. He has - briefly - had in his possession an ancient book belonging to the Order. However, other agencies are also desperate to get hold of the book and the knowledge it contains. ...



  • Bomb!

    Tense thriller. Rob must use all his bomb-defusing skills when he comes up against an explosive in a school. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers of 10+Action packed thriller. Rob's the army's youngest bomb disposal of...

  • The Lethal Target

    The Malichea Quest - 3

    Jake's girlfriend, Lauren, has been exiled to New Zealand by MI5, who ensure that the two of them never speak about the missing books of the Order of Malichea. The information in these books could destroy mankind if they fall into the wrong hands, bu...

  • Big Rock and the Masked Avenger

    Wrestling Trolls - 1

    Jack knows every wrestling move there is to know, and his dreams come true when he's recruited as a training assistant to Waldo's Wrestling Trolls. Little does Jack know that he's actually part troll, and that when his new family is in trouble he mor...

  • Blood on the Wall

    Along the line of Hadrian's Wall, someone is murdering people and taking their heads. Is this a ritualistic killer or a revenge mission? DI Andreas Georgiou of Carlisle CID is brought back from suspension to investigate, but with an accusation of bru...

  • The Last Enemy

    The Malichea Quest - 4

    Centuries-old wisdom. Knowledge people will kill for. The ultimate prize: The Index of the Order of Malichea. And the most powerful organisations in the world are in a deadly race to find it. The Index will change the shape of the future. J...

  • The Giant Rumble

    Wrestling Trolls - 3

    Challenged to a Giant Rumble but suffering from a shortfall of wrestlers, Jack and his friends set out to find more participants for their great battle. But what starts as a fun-filled road trip soon becomes an action-packed adventure filled with dan...

  • Thud in Trouble

    Wrestling Trolls - 4

    The Wrestling Trolls are BACK, facing nasty bullies and vengeful villains.Here come the Wrestling Trolls with two great new adventures! Jack, Milo, Robin and Big Rock are back, and they have a new friend with them too - Blaze, the magical phoenix. As...

  • Jack Versus Veto

    Wrestling Trolls - 5

    Rustlers, revenge and revelations - the Wrestling Trolls family are under attack!Disaster has struck the Wrestling Trolls family. Their grumpy but much-loved friend Robin has been stolen by a nasty band of horse rustlers, and it's up to the gang to g...

  • The Final Showdown

    Wrestling Trolls - 6

    In the first of two stories, Lord Veto has been kidnapped and is being held at the dreaded Mount Doom. Now that Jack knows that his arch enemy is in fact his grandfather, the gang find themselves on the most unexpected mission of all: to save Lord Ve...

  • Hunk and Thud

    Wrestling Trolls - 2

    Jack is doing fantastically well as the Wrestling Trolls training coach: Big Rock is winning matches, and the group are on their way to more gold and tasty rocks than they can count. All Jack has to do is keep his alter-ego THUD! under control. With ...



  • Roman Invasion

  • Assassins

    A DCI Paul Stark Mystery - 1

    The first of a new mystery series featuring Winston Churchill and King George V: an intriguing departure for bestselling children’s author Jim Eldridge. London, 1921. Prominent Cabinet minister Lord Amersham has been shot dead outside his Regen...

  • Shadows of the Dead

    A DCI Paul Stark Mystery - 2

    DCI Paul Stark discovers that the bitter legacy of WWI casts a long shadow in the second of this intriguing historical mystery series. London, 1921. Lord Johnny Fairfax has been found dead in his study, along with a second victim, a mysterious Am...

  • Coming Home

  • Murder at the Fitzwilliam

    Museum Mysteries - 1

    After rising to prominence for his role investigating the case of Jack the Ripper, former Detective Inspector Daniel Wilson is now retired. Known for his intelligence, investigative skills, and most of all his discretion, he's often consulted when a ...

  • Murder at the British Museum

    Museum Mysteries - 2

    1894. A well-respected academic is found dead in a gentlemen's convenience cubicle at the British Museum, the stall locked from the inside. Professor Lance Pickering had been due to give a talk promoting the museum's new 'Age of King Arthur' exhibiti...

  • 1066: The Norman Conquest

  • Murder at the Ashmolean

    Museum Mysteries - 3

    1895. A senior executive at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is found in his office with a bullet hole between his eyes, a pistol discarded close by. The death has officially been ruled as suicide by local police, but with an apparent lack of motive fo...

  • The Trenches

  • Murder at the Manchester Museum

    Museum Mysteries - 4

    1895. Former Scotland Yard detective Daniel Wilson, famous for working the notorious Jack the Ripper case, and his archaeologist sidekick Abigail Fenton are summoned to investigate the murder of a young woman at the Manchester Museum. Though staff re...



  • Murder at the Natural History Museum

    Museum Mysteries - 5

    1895. When the newly dubbed 'Museum Detectives' are asked to investigate deliberate damage to a dinosaur skeleton at the Natural History Museum, there is evidence that the fossil-hunting mania of the notorious Bone Wars in America may have reached th...

  • Murder at Madame Tussauds

    Museum Mysteries - 6

    London, 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague nowhere to be found. To the police, the case seems simple: one killed the other and fled, but workers at the museum aren't convinced. Although forbidde...

  • Murder at the Ritz

    Hotel Mysteries - 1

    August 1940. On the streets of London, locals watch with growing concern as German fighter planes plague the city's skyline. But inside the famous Ritz Hotel, the cream of society continues to enjoy all the glamour and comfort that money can buy duri...

  • Murder at the Savoy

    Hotel Mysteries - 2

    Jim Eldridge, author of the Museum Mysteries, turns his pen to Wartime London's grandest hotels.September 1940: the height of the Blitz. The Savoy Hotel boasts London's strongest air raid shelter with all the luxury expected from one of the capital's...

  • Blitz Kids

    Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book ...

  • Murder at the National Gallery

    Museum Mysteries - 7

    A grim portrait of murder in Victorian London.1897, London. The capital is shocked to learn that the body of a woman has been found at the National Gallery, eviscerated in a manner that recalls all too strongly the exploits of the infamous Jack the R...

  • Murder at Claridge's

    Hotel Mysteries - 3

    Jim Eldridge, author of the Museum Mysteries, turns his pen to Wartime London's grandest hotels.October 1940. The Blitz bombing raids continue mercilessly, but when the body of a kitchen porter from Claridge's hotel is found, it is clear that he has ...

  • Murder at the Victoria and Albert Museum

    Museum Mysteries - 8

    London, 1899. Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone on the site of what she names as The Victoria and Albert Museum. Shortly after, the Museum Detectives Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton are called to the site because the dead body of curator Andr...

  • Murder at Aldwych Station

    A London Underground Station Mystery - 1

    December, 1940. With the Luftwaffe pounding the city nightly, Londoners seek refuge in underground stations. Aldwych has been taken out of service to provide shelter for the British Museum's priceless Elgin Marbles, as well as civilians escaping t...

  • Murder at Down Street Station

    A London Underground Station Mystery - 2

    Christmas, 1940. A temporary truce between the German and Allied forces is a welcome respite from the relentless air raids over London.Down Street underground station, in the heart of Mayfair, is now a secret retreat for Prime Minister Winston Church...



  • Murder at the Tower of London

    Museum Mysteries - 9

    London, 1899. A shocking murder is discovered at the heart of the Tower of London. The dead body of a Yeoman Warder is found inside a suit of armour belonging to Henry VIII, having been run through with a sword, and when details of this outrage are r...

  • Murder at the Louvre

    Museum Mysteries - 10

    Paris, 1899. Abigail Wilson has received an invitation from Professor Alphonse Flamand, a prominent French Professor of Archaeology, to join him on a dig in Egypt. Overjoyed to be presented with such an opportunity, Abigail and her husband, Daniel, t...

  • Murder at Lord's Station

    A London Underground Station Mystery - 3

    March, 1941. London is the scene of nightly destruction as the Blitz continues, and the bombing is taking its toll on the city's inhabitants.Detective Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are recovering from a devastating bomb attack on the Ca...

  • Murder at Whitechapel Road Station

    A London Underground Station Mystery - 4

    April, 1941. At the former Whitechapel Road Underground station, repurposed as an air raid shelter since the onset of the Blitz, the body of a woman has been discovered, stabbed and eviscerated. With the ghoulish history of Jack the Ripper and his vi...

  • Murder at St Paul's Cathedral

    A Cathedral Mystery - 1

    May 1941. One of the senior choristers of St Paul's Cathedral choir, Dr Edwin Roberts, is found beaten to death in the crypt of the Cathedral. Coburg and Lampson are called in to investigate, and when they get there, Coburg is pleasantly surprised to...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jim Eldridge has published 44 books.

The next book by Jim Eldridge, Murder at St Paul's Cathedral, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Jim Eldridge, Tractor and Digger Save the Day, was published in August 1999.

Yes. Jim Eldridge has 9 series.
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