James Pattinson

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....

The search for Arnie Walker was not a job that Sam Grant was particularly keen to undertake....

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....

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 in the sun than work....

Two survivors find themselves on board a Russian freighter bound for a secret destination. Slowly it dawns on Brett and his companion that they now know too much for their own good....

When Sergeant Fred Mason of the Maritime Royal Artillery eventually locates his new ship SS Radgate, he finds the little coaster quite a contrast to his previous posting....

Drake read the obituary for Howard Gray in the Daily Telegraph. It had intrigued him because he had been very close to Gray many years ago....

Paul Crane had not altogether liked the look of Skene and West when they turned up at his North Norfolk cottage and made him an offer he could not refuse....

One of the most important attributes of a prospective candidate for the U.S. presidency is not to have any skeletons in one's closet....

Harry Banner turns up in London one November evening having just got back from Venezuela. He wants to see Robert Cade, a man he'd known six years earlier in Buenos Aires....

In this company, living in such close quarters, there was inevitably a certain amount of friction. But human passions would prove insignificant by comparison when the fury of the storm....

Kemp blamed himself: he should have kept more closely in touch with his younger sister. Now it appears that Lorna has gone off to Colombia with a man named Roberto Vargas....

When a lifeboat marked 'Valparaiso I' is discovered, a strange mystery unfolds. The Valparaiso had been sunk by a Japanese submarine nearly a year earlier....

The gunners on the Golden Ray were a strangely assorted bunch....

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.....

Sam Grant is tasked with the job of tracing the vendor of a painting that had come up for sale at a London auction room....

The drug trade route stretched from London across Europe and part of Asia to the borders of Afghanistan. Investigating one part of it cost the life of a police detective name George Lacon....

Alan Caley was far from delighted to receive a phone call from his old school pal Chuck Brogan, inviting him to lunch....

It was nearing the end of the road for The Merrymakers. Such companies of entertainers touring the towns and villages of East Anglia were finding things more and more difficult....

English adventurer Harvey Landon is alone in New York - wanted by the police and with only a few dollars in his pocket. Theodore Cranefield offers him a job that he can't afford to refuse....