Leslie Thomas

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1972
  • Latest Book:
    July 2011
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Full Series List in Order

A Dangerous Davies Novel

1 - The Last Detective (Jul-2011)
Dangerous Davies the Last Detective (Mar-1982)
Dangerous by Moonlight (Dec-1995)

The Virgin Soldiers Trilogy

1 - The Virgin Soldiers (Jan-2006)
2 - Onward Virgin Soldiers (Apr-1972)
3 - Stand Up Virgin Soldiers (Dec-2010)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Onward Virgin Soldiers

    The Virgin Soldiers Trilogy - 2

    Bursting with life and bawdy humour, National Serviceman Brigg is now a Regular Army sergeant defending the Empire in the beds and bars of Hong Kong.Peace-time diversions include sensual fireworks with a pair of delicious Chinese twins and a tender, ...

  • Dangerous Davies the Last Detective

    A Dangerous Davies Novel

    Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies is the central character in a series of comic novels by Leslie Thomas and a TV series, The Last Detective made for ITV. The first novel in the series was also made into a film for television in 1981....

  • Goddess of the Moon

    Mills & Boon Special Edition - 53
    Silhouette Special Edition - 53

    Casey Hampton had found the life she wanted, but one youthful indiscretion still haunted her. And in the searing heat of the Yucatan, she came face to face once more with that specter from her past: Brandon Whitney. The silver light of the moon b...

  • Loves and Journeys of Revolving Jones

  • Arrivals and Departures

    Fresh from Los Angeles, Mrs Pearl Collingwood and her daughter Rona arrive in the frenzied no-man's-land of Heathrow airport: from the nearby village of Bedmansworth, Edward Richardson jets in and out of it faster than his marriage can tolerate. ...

  • The Magic Army

  • Dangerous by Moonlight

    A Dangerous Davies Novel

    Known in the London police as the Last Detective, it is no surprise when Det. Dangerous Davies gets beaten up on the job. While recuperating, he is approached by a member of the local Widows Club to investigate the death of her husband 15 years befor...

  • Dangerous Davies And Lonely Hearts

  • Waiting for the Day

    Mid-winter, 1943. Britain is gripped by intense cold and in the darkest days of the war. It is six months before D-Day and the battle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe. RAF officer Martin Paget is returning home for Christmas. He has been on covert op...



  • The Virgin Soldiers

    The Virgin Soldiers Trilogy - 1

    'It rained a lot and steamed when the sun shone. It was always hot. But it was safe...'One way or another the Communist guerrilla war in Malaya kept a whole British army occupied from 1948 until 1952. They were the virgin soldiers. Idle, homesick, af...

  • Soldiers and Lovers

    In a sunlit, secret valley in the green mountains of central Italy, two people meet away from the horrors and clamour of battle. David Hopkins, a young fisherman from west Wales and Kate Medhurst, from a genteel town in the Thames Valley, embark upon...

  • Dangerous In Love

    A walk through Kensal Green Cemetery, a meat pie in the greasy spoon, a weekend away complete with flannel pyjamas - Dangerous Davies knows how to treat the woman he loves. Detective Constable Davies has two things on his mind: Jemma Duval, the beaut...

  • Almost Heaven

    A slightly irreverent take on stories and myths that surround the world famous Salisbury Cathedral, its Close and the surrounding area -- from the 13th century through to the present day. Some of the stories are hilarious, others sensational, many pu...

  • Stand Up Virgin Soldiers

    The Virgin Soldiers Trilogy - 3

    The worst has happened. On the eve of their return to Blighty, Brigg and his fellow National Servicemen find themselves sentenced to another six months in Panglin Barracks...Many of the surviving characters from The Virgin Soldiers live again in thes...

  • Kensington Heights

    Frank Inigo Savage simply wants to be alone and the top flat of Kensington Heights seems just the place. Until the other bizarre and eccentric inhabitants of the building start arriving on his doorstep.And the Savage gets a visit from a homeless waif...

  • My World Of Islands

    Leslie Thomas's odyssey is a vivid, personal account of the most fascinating islands at the furthest reaches of the globe: to islands as distant and diverse as Saint-Pierre et Miquelon off Newfoundland and Great Barrier Island off New Zealand, and to...

  • Other Times

    At the start of the war in 1939 James Bevan is a junior officer approaching middle-age, attached to a small anti-aircraft unit on the south coast.Abandoned by his wife, the soldiers he command are his family: Bairnsfather, whose sexual encounters wit...

  • Running Away

    Written with the characteristic wit and good humour, Leslie Thomas's novel tells the story of a grown man who runs away from home, and the adventures that befall him in his quest for a new lease of life. His latest love affair discovered (thanks to a...

  • The Adventures of Goodnight and Loving

    At 43, George Goodnight, lawyer for a London newspaper, is sick of his boring, structured life, so when his wife files for divorce he jettisons orderly routine for aimless travel. In Thomas's hands, Goodnight's round-the-world romp is delightful, tou...



  • The Complete Dangerous Davies

    As plain-clothes men go, Dangerous Davies looks like a non-starter. The small fry of petty larceny and minor disturbances in the backwaters of north-west London are his daily round. His philosophising Welsh drinking companion Mod, his outsized and un...

  • Orders For New York

  • That Old Gang Of Mine

    At four-thirty one January afternoon a bus returning to Miami and Fort Lauderdale containing tourists who have been visiting a Seminole Indian Reservation is held up at gunpoint by five hooded gangsters. The combined ages of the 5 robbers total 320 y...

  • Chloe's Song

    The new tale of love and life, rich with humour and pathos, from our best loved storyteller. From the prison cell where Chloe Smith, 43, is awaiting trial for the merciful murder of the only man who ever loved her with honesty, she recalls the men in...

  • The Last Detective

    A Dangerous Davies Novel - 1

    Dangerous Davies earned his nickname the same way that fat men nicknamed Tiny earn theirs. He is known as the last detective not because there are no others like him, but because he is, in nearly every instance, the last boy picked for the team. With...

  • The Dearest and the Best

    • / General Fiction
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    In the spring of 1940, the spectre of war turned into grim reality. And on the English home front, men, women and children found themselves swept into a maelstrom of fear and uncertainty while events abroad led inexorably from the debacles of Norway ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Leslie Thomas has published 25 books.

Leslie Thomas does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Last Detective, was published in July 2011.

The first book by Leslie Thomas, Onward Virgin Soldiers, was published in April 1972.

Yes. Leslie Thomas has 2 series.
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