S. Fowler Wright

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  • Bibliography:
    50 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2008
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Lost Race Fantasy

Beyond the Rim (Mar-2009)
The Hidden Tribe (Mar-2009)
The Screaming Lake (Mar-2009)

Book List in Order: 50 titles

  • Arresting Delia

    Inspector Cleveland of New Scotland has a murder, a suspect, a written confession, and an open-and-shut case -- and a major problem. The woman who confessed to the killing -- Delia Russell -- probably didn't do the deed, at least to his way of thinki...

  • The Attic Murder

    Francis Hammerton is arrested and convicted of involvement with a gang of confidence men--a charge of which he is entirely innocent--but escapes police custody when a cell door is left unlocked. He finds refuge at a nearby boarding house, but is arre...

  • The Capone Caper

    When an American gangster is found murdered in London under suspicious circumstances, Sir Reginald Crowe, British banker and friend of Mr. Jellipot, is accused of the crime. Brought before a coroner's court, he's on the virge of being arrested and in...

  • The End Of The Mildew Gang

    Abel Marks was not a nice man, and when he’s found murdered in his Razor Street flat, suspicion falls on Carol Marks, the young women he'd married just a few hours before. It was she who’d found the body, and she who'd agreed to marry him to pay ...

  • Four Callers In Razor Street

    Abel Marks was not a nice man, and when he’s found murdered in his Razor Street flat, suspicion falls on Carol Marks, the young women he'd married just a few hours before. It was she who’d found the body, and she who'd agreed to marry him to pay ...

  • The Vengeance Of Gwa

    King Bwene of the Baradi faces a stark dilemma. A plague is devastating his people, and the only possibility of salvation is relocating his kingdom from the lowlands to a place where the disease doesn't flourish. But when he attacks the ape-men of th...

  • With Cause Enough?

    Three women of very different characters and social backgrounds have been betrayed by the same man, Bruce Nolan, who married them for their money -- without bothering with messy divorces. Lady Eleanor Cresswell, Edith Westerham, and Lucille Belloes a...

  • Dawn

    The waters are rising--everywhere--and most of England is inundated by the surge, leaving isolated pockets of mankind to fight for survival--and for civilization!...

  • The Bell Street Murders

    Wilfrid Ralston's new invention will revolutionalize the film industry. But the big potential payoff results in his brutal murder, and his girlfriend, Evelyn Merivale, becomes the prime suspect. Only Scotland Yard Inspector Combridge and the solicito...



  • Beyond the Rim

    A Lost Race Fantasy

  • Black Widow

    When Inspector Pinkey investigates the murder of Sir Daniel Denton in his country home, he's confronted with three prime suspects: the man's widow, his brother, and a recently-fired servant. But everywhere the policeman looks, he finds confli...

  • Crime & Co.

    When Bulfwin is found murdered in his office, the prime suspect becomes his American partner, Kingsley Starr, who admits having visited the man on the night of his death. But then the coroner finds that Bulfwin had been murdered by two DIFFERENT guns...

  • Dead by Saturday

    Basil stumbles across a briefcase full of money on a London street. He changes his name and tries to stay one step ahead of the real owners of the cash--a group of American gangsters. But Inspector Cleveland of Scotland Yard knows that he has a major...

  • Dream; or, The Simian Maid

    Marguerite travels through time to become Rita, a simian-woman of the Tree People tens of thousands of years ago. Together with Stele, Elysa, Prince Thelmo, and Princess Tekla, she must fight the invasion of the semi-intelligent rat people who threat...

  • Elfwin

    Princess Elfwin of Wessex is betrothed to her cousin, Prince Athelstan, but she actually loves Prince Sithric of the enemy Danes. She renounces her heritage and goes to her beau, but they're separated from each other during a great battle. Only the V...

  • The Hanging of Constance Hillier

    Constance Hillier and her boyfriend, Thomas Mogson, are convicted of the murder of her aunt, and both are hanged. Before his death, Thomas unsuccessfully tries to save himself by accusing Constance's sister, Margaret, of the crime. Inspector Clevelan...

  • The Hidden Tribe

    A Lost Race Fantasy

  • The Jordans Murder

    When London solicitor Mr. Jellipot discovers a nude body draped over a fence, its blood drained dry, he immediately consults his friend, Inspector Combridge. The Scotland Yard detective arrests the dead man's illegitimate son, Edward Higgins, who sta...

  • The King Against Anne Bickerton

    When Arabella Hackett is found poisoned, her sister and heir, Anne Bickerton, is accused of the crime. She's arrested and brought to trial, but the only defense she can make is to proclaim her innocence. Can anyone save Anne Bickerton from the hangma...



  • The Mildew Gang

    Isabel Houghton has been shot dead, and her fugitive husband James is the chief suspect. Scotland Yard's Inspector Cauldron must unravel the mystery, and discover the connection between James and the notorious drug dealer, Cornelius Mildew. The first...

  • Murder in Bethnal Square

    When the blackmailer Henry Coldwater is murdered, Basil Forbes becomes the prime suspect, since he admits having thrashed Coldwater an hour before his death. But solicitor Mr. Jellipot has no trouble clearing Forbes' name, leaving Scotland Yard Inspe...

  • Post-Mortem Evidence

    When Mrs. Hamilton dies, Inspector Combridge receives an anonymous letter stating that she was poisoned. Post-mortem evidence finds traces of a rare dental anesthetic in her body, and her stepdaughter and heir, Ada, becomes the prime suspect, since s...

  • The Return of the Mildew Gang

    Cornelius Mildew, the notorious international drug dealer introduced in The Mildew Gang, returns for another bout with Scotland Yard. The King of Crime is alive and well, and vowing to take his revenge on anyone who stands in his way. Can Inspector C...

  • The Rissole Mystery

    When Adrian Rissole is murdered in his London flat, leaving all of his money to his beautiful neighbor, Jane Lovejoy, Scotland Yard Inspector Combridge immediately suspects her and her husband. Only the brilliant solicitor Mr. Jellipot can unravel th...

  • The Screaming Lake

    A Lost Race Fantasy

    Devereux and Juanita travel deep into the Amazon jungle looking for Incan gold. What they find is an ancient city forgotten by time, located on the shores of The Screaming Lake, where huge, toad-like monsters feast on unwary travelers. Can they survi...

  • Spiders' War

    In the far future, a woman must fight for her life and honor against two foes: the men who control society, and the giant spiders that inhabit a neighboring land. The third novel in the Marguerite Cranleigh Series....

  • Three Witnesses

    Roger Truscott and brother Cyril inherit a controlling interest in their late father's firm. Rowton, the company manager, urges them to sell out before the business fails. The brothers argue in Rowton's office, and shortly thereafter, Cyril is shot d...

  • Too Much for Mr. Jellipot

    When Phillip Briggs is murdered in his bed, the prime suspects are Robert Ames, his partner, Henry Gilson, a major investor in the firm, Reggie Tudor, Mr. Jellipot's clerk, and Mr. Jellipot himself, heir to the Briggs estate. Then Ames disappears, an...

  • Was Murder Done? A Classic Crime Novel

    Crime writer Alfred Culbertson concocts a scheme to increase his royalties: he'll fake the murder of his cousin, Thomas Birchell (who's also hard-up for cash), and together they'll reap a bonanza. When Tom takes a dive off a nearby cliff, supposedly ...



  • Prelude in Prague

    In 1935 S. Fowler Wright penned the first volume of an SF trilogy based on the notion--then considered absurd--that Adolf Hitler was an evil, empire-seeking megalomaniac bent on conquering the world. First Hitler rearms Germany, then forces Europe to...

  • The Secret of the Screen

    In The Bell Street Murders, Evelyn Merivale had helped the police solve the murder of her friend, Wilfrid Ralston, who'd invented a process to revolutionize the motion picture industry. But the master criminal, Professor Blinkwell, still wants the lu...

  • Who Murdered Reynard?

    Prof. Blinkwell, the suave, unscrupulous scientist and criminal mastermind, is back, this time visiting Paris. When Henri Reynard, the official investigating Blinkwell, is murdered in the hotel suite of the U.S. Ambassador, the prime suspect becomes ...

  • The Wills of Jane Kanwhistle

    Jane Kanwhistle leaves ten thousand pounds from her estate to her nephew, Frederick Corder--provided that he commit a different crime each and every day for a year, and avoid prosecution and imprisonment. Fred and his writer wife Adeline decide to ca...

  • Four Days' War

    The Nazis attack the West--in 1938! First their Blitzkrieg attacks and subdues Czechslovakia. Now it's England's turn, as wave after wave of German bombers devastate London and the other big cities. British spy Richard Steele has evidence of an appal...

  • Megiddo's Ridge

    In 1938 the Nazis launch a sudden attack on Czechoslovakia, which they quickly subdue, and also on England, which proves to be a much harder morsel to digest. As the allies from the West gather their forces in Palestine for a final climactic battle a...

  • Red Ike

    When Red Ike and his friend Will Moffatt accidentally spy two of their friends making love "under the Brutchstone" in rural Cumberland County, England, in 1883, they set in motion a series of events that will profoundly affect their own lives and tho...

  • The Blue Room

    In this alternate history of 1990, the world is dominated by three great nation-states. When the United States of Europe declares "limited war" on The Commonwealth of English-Speaking Nations, Lord Seeley Whitcombe must travel to Europe to find some ...

  • Wyndham Smith

    When Wyndham Smith is transported to the 45th century, he finds himself fighting a sterile dystopia in which machines have created a sterile womb for mankind, without pain or suffering. Humanity is on the verge of deliberate racial suicide, but Wyndh...

  • Inquisitive Angel

    When an inquisitive angel named Elya comes to Earth, she assumes the form of an extraordinarily beautiful young woman, and promptly proceeds to poke holes in the foundation of human society. Why, she wants to know, are we so irrational, so willing to...



  • Power

    Stanley Maitland, a young British politician, suddenly finds himself owning a super-weapon that makes him temporary Dictator of England. He wants to reform government and abolish all the unnecessary rules and regulations that have accumulated during ...

  • The Lord's Right in Languedoc

    In medieval France, Count Gismond becomes locked in an escalating war of nerves between himself, the nearby town of Faucon-bas, and a mercenary captain named Halt Redwood. Gismond needs money to finance his lavish lifestyle, and the townsfolk refuse ...

  • The Ordeal of Barata

    British Doctor Enrico Dalston travels to Central America, where he finds himself entangled in the longstanding political quarrel between the republics of Barata and Bioli. On the voyage to Bioli, he becomes enamored of the beautiful daughter of Bioli...

  • The World Below

    When George is transported to a far-future Earth, he finds himself caught between two very different species of humanity--the Amphibians, dwellers of the deeps, and the giant Dwellers, rulers of the large island that constitutes the major land mass. ...

  • David the King

    The aim of this book has been no more than to give an imaginative construction of David's life from when he was a petty king in Hebron to the birth of Solomon, says S. Fowler Wright in his Preface, but this summary ignores the vivid characters that t...

  • Seven Thousand in Israel

    In late 1920s England, on the verge of the Great Depression, John Oakley owns a small manufacturing plant that has fallen on hard times. Taxes are rising, orders are dropping, and the firm is gradually heading towards bankruptcy. But his grown childr...

  • Cortez

    In 1518, a Spanish conquistador named Hernando Cortez set out with a handful of men to conquer the hitherto-unknown Aztec Empire. Facing armies that numbered, at times, 10 or 20 or 100 times his strength, he pushed his way into the interior, determin...

  • Deluge

    The “landmark disaster novel” that follows the story of two survivors after a global flood has wiped out civilization (Publishers Weekly).   An immediate bestseller upon its release in the early twentieth century, Deluge takes place in the E...

  • The Island of Captain Sparrow

    Stranded on an unknown island in the Pacific, Charlton Foyle must fight goat-like hominids, giant, semi-intelligent birds, degenerate pirate settlers, and the remnants of an ancient race of men with powers to foretell the future, in order to save the...

  • The Amphibians

    A time traveler voyates half a million years into the future in an attempt to find two previous explorers who have failed to return. What he finds is a world as completely different from ours, as ours is different from when dinosaurs roamed the Earth...



  • Deluge. A novel of global warming.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

S. Fowler Wright has published 50 books.

S. Fowler Wright does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Deluge. A novel of global warming., was published in April 2024.

The first book by S. Fowler Wright, Arresting Delia, was published in March 2008.

Yes. S. Fowler Wright has 1 series.
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