The Ka of Gifford Hillary is a story concerned with the greatest of all mysteries: what happens after death? With Sir Gifford Hillary and Wing Commander Johnny Norton involved in plans to counter the might of Soviet Russia, interest soon centres on the evil Lady Ankaret and the tragedy which occurred at Longshot Hall, South Hampshire, on the night of the 9th September. A victim is struck down, and from that moment onward, the events which follow seem - at first - fantastic and unbelievable...but are later realised to be entirely logical. What does happen after death? And why should Sir Gifford find himself in prison, on trial for his life?
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Roger Brook adventure No. II. Nov 1787 - Apr 1789 - Roger Brook - Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent - is sent on a secret mission to the Russia of that beautiful and licentious Catherine the Great. Chosen by her to become her lover, Roger is compelled to move with the utmost care, for if it was known that not only was he spying for two countries but also having an affair with the sadistic and vicious Natalia, he would most certainly die. The story moves to Denmark and the tragedy of Queen Matilda, to Sweden and the amazing ride of King Gustavus to save Gothenburg - will Roger make it back to England and to his one great love, Georgina? Illustrated by John Holder. -
When Avril Bamborough left London with a Hollywood contract, she little thought that she would fall in love with another woman's fiance, become the head of a great film empire and face a murder charge. A group of cut-throat financiers were determined to gain control of the entire film industry. All opposition was ruthlessly destroyed. Strikes, arson, hired gunmen were the weapons used. Yet there were those prepared to fight the combine and this was the struggle in which Avril would become involved.
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Roger Brook adventure No. VIII. Pauline Leclerc: the loveliest, most licentious woman in Paris – and the favorite sister of Napoleon himself. Roger Brook is back in France – playing a deadly game as Prime Minister Pitt's most daring secret agent. But when he is ordered to console the newly-widowed Pauline he finds that, for once, the calls of duty and passion coincide... -
Spain, 1906. The Duke de Richleau has not yet succeeded his father, and is still the Count de Quesnoy. Anarchy permeates every country in Europe. Not a night passes without groups of fanatics meeting in cellars to plan attempts with knives, pistols or bombs against the representatives of law and order. A bomb outrage gives de Quesnoy ample cause to vow vengeance on the assassins. His attempt to penetrate anarchist circles in Barcelona nearly costs him his life. In San Sebastian, Granada and Cadiz he hunts and is in turn hunted by them in a ruthless vendetta. Against this background a bitter-sweet romance develops between him and the beautiful Condesa Gulia. -
Toby Jugg, a fighter pilot shot down in combat, is now confined to his bed with little hope of walking again. He is also the heir to a considerable fortune - a fortune that is being administered by a board of trustees until he comes of age. At night, he is becoming increasingly disturbed by a strange presence - a mysterious shadow thrown by the moonlight through a gap in the blackout curtains. He is convinced the shadow is cast by a malevolent and unnatural entity trying to get into his room. Toby is unable to convince anyone of the reality of this entity, and slowly comes to believe that there is a ploy against him, a plot to send him mad, or to make it appear that he is already mad in order to usurp his fortune. Is this some form of hallucination? Is this unearthly creature real or a product of his imagination? Are the people caring for him actually plotting his destruction, or are they sincerely concerned for a young man whose grip on sanity is steadily weakening? Illustrated by David Hollinshead. -
Julian Day adventure No. II In the battle-worn days of 1940, Julian Day finds himself in Alexandria - in a whirlpool of intrigue and spy-rings. He falls under suspicion from both from his fellow countrymen and the Germans and, driven by conflicting loyalties, he sets sail for Greece and the ill-starred campaign of 1941. Determined to sheath the Sword of Fate, he journeys into the heart of enemy-held territory. The danger is desperate; the price of failure - death. Illustrated by Peter Whiteman. -
Gregory Sallust adventure No. V. Set against the background of Vichy France and the occupied territories in 1940, Gregory is as determined as ever to overthrow the iron rule of the Third Reich. Nursed back to health by Madeleine Lavalliere, he leaves Paris just as the Germans march into the capital. Little did he realize, however, that he would meet up with Madeleine once more and that together they would evolve a plan which would inflict irreparable damage upon the Nazis...Illustrated by Steve Henderson -
Duke de Richleau adventure No. IV. A murder in the heart of London's Clubland - and a somewhat unusual detective force: the connoisseur Duke de Richleau, a husky American millionaire and a young man-about-town on a charge of matricide. When lovely young Lady Felicity gets involved, there's a love affair in the air...then all that's needed is a dead body in a bath and an invitation to tea with an old lady in Sussex for a twist to a first rate crime story. Illustrated by Shirley Bellwood. -
Julian Day adventure No. I. It was for the lovely Sylvia Shane that Julian decided to set out on his quest, but it was the fascinating, dangerous Princess Oonas Shahamalek who delayed his departure. The quest was for the treasure of Cambyses, buried for more than two thousand years. It led Julian to a night in the Tomb of the Sacred Bulls in Alexandria; to an encounter with white slavers and dope runners outside of Cairo; to a voyage up the Nile where death waited for them. It ends in the Libyan desert, five hundred miles from civilisation. -
1936 - As Mussolini's troops invade Abyssinia the international situation deteriorates - and the armaments kings look forward greedily to even fatter profits. No one, it seems, can halt the carnage. Except perhaps the Millers of God, a group of wealthy individuals dedicated to the systematic execution of all those who feed off human suffering. Sir Anthony Lovelace doesn't approve of the organisation's methods. But when Christopher Penn and his beautiful fiancee call on his friendship, he too finds himself involved in a desperate gamble for the cause of peace. -
Roger Brook adventure No. II. Nov 1787 - Apr 1789 - Roger Brook - Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent - is sent on a secret mission to the Russia of that beautiful and licentious Catherine the Great. Chosen by her to become her lover, Roger is compelled to move with the utmost care, for if it was known that not only was he spying for two countries but also having an affair with the sadistic and vicious Natalia, he would most certainly die. The story moves to Denmark and the tragedy of Queen Matilda, to Sweden and the amazing ride of King Gustavus to save Gothenburg - will Roger make it back to England and to his one great love, Georgina? Illustrated by John Holder. -
Gregory Sallust adventure No. II It is 1940, and Gregory Sallust is tasked with contacting an anti-Nazi organisation in Germany who are preparing to overthrow Hitler and sue for peace. In a series of clever disguises, Sallust must masquerade his way through challenge after challenge, surrounded by some of the most vicious and determined Nazis of the Third Reich. Illustrated by Ian Miller. -
Lost Worlds adventure No. III. For five years, Philip Vaudell, son of a Naval Captain and fanatically patriotic young Briton, had done his utmost - and failed - to get into the struggle that was World War II. Yet in the end, he made a contribution to the victory of the United Nations which was probably unequalled by any other man of his generation. The American heroine, red-haired Gloria, is a vital character - and defying blistering heat and freezing cold, these two move through events to the climax of the story - to D-Day! -
A Roger Brooks Adventure, No. VI. Roger Brook – 'wanted' for illegal duelling – sailed for Calcutta in the summer of 1796. With him went his lovely Clarissa. And in Calcutta Clarissa was abducted. Abducted by Rinaldo Malderini, a Venetian senator and a disciple of the Devil, an enemy as vicious and unscrupulous as any that Roger Brook had faced. Through shipwreck, capture by slavers, a desperate night attack on a walled city, Roger Brook seeks his revenge: and achieves it on entering Venice with Napoleon. Illustrated by Patrick Rixson.
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A Gregory Sallust adventure No. III. British secret agent Gregory Sallust is on the run after being shot down in Nazi Germany. His journey to save the woman he loves takes him to Finland and Russia in the midst of some of the worst battles in the early days of World War II. Illustrated by John Holder. -
A Gregory Sallust adventure No. III. British secret agent Gregory Sallust is on the run after being shot down in Nazi Germany. His journey to save the woman he loves takes him to Finland and Russia in the midst of some of the worst battles in the early days of World War II. Illustrated by John Holder. -
Roger Brook adventure No. I. Later he will become Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent. For now, in 1783, the handsome Brook is out to seek his fame and fortune. He might never have set out at all were it not for the beautiful, wicked Georgina Thursby. And he would not have become entangled in French foreign policy except for the lonely Athenais de Rochambeau... Illustrated by Richard Dalkins. -
Roger Brook Adventure No. IV. Roger Brook, Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent, is in Paris during the Great Terror when more than a million people perished and the Terrorists found that the guillotine did not work quickly enough. This, the second phase of the French Revolution, opened with the storming of the Tuileries in June, 1792, and in the months that followed, the Liberals were mown down by cannon fire, drowned by the thousand, and flung back into the flames of villages burnt to the ground. And amidst all this brutality and bloodshed, Roger Brook, a Commissar in Revolutionary Paris, faced terrifying hazards trying desperately to rescue Queen Marie Antoinette and other members of the Royal Family from a mob thirsting for revenge. Illustrated by Malcolm Poynter. -
de Richeleau Adventure No. X. The Duke de Richeleau and his friends had faced many dangers in Russia, Spain and Nazi Germany. Now a new and unexpected menace confronts them: the fourth, Rex Van Ryn is missing and he has made off with more than a million dollars from the Buenos Aires branch of his family bank. Behind the conventional courtesy of Argentinian society lies a conspiracy of terror and silence - and a trail that leads straight to the Devil himself...Illustrated by Virginia Smith. -
A Gregory Sallust adventure, No. 11. The war is long over, but danger and excitement still cling to ex-agent Gregory Sallust. Boredom leads him to Rio de Janeiro, where he is soon drawn into an adventure that takes him to the South Pacific. Circumstance leads to him becoming the friend of a young South Seas Rajah, Ratu James Omboluku, there to secure finance to recover treasure from a sunken ship lying off the island he rules; and he intends to use this treasure for the betterment of his people. But others, led by the unscrupulous Pierre Lacost, are also planning to recover the treasure, and it is not long before Gregory, having an affair with the passionate Manon de Bois-Tracy, finds himself surrounded by blackmail, kidnapping, the most ruthless thugs he has ever encountered - and murder and black magic that turn the paradise of the islands into a place of horror and death. Illustrated by Stephen Bennett. -
Roger Brook adventure No XII. 1814. The Irish Witch is dead, and Europe at peace. Roger Brook, now Lord Kildonan, is content to divide his time between his young wife, Mary, and his life-long mistress and spirit-companion, Georgina. But as the fashionable world glitters at the Congress of Vienna, the power-hungry Napoleon is about to plunge the continent into war once more. And Mary, possessed by demonic jealousy, is hatching a plot which threatens Roger's fortune – and Georgina's life. Reluctantly, Roger Brook must assume his old identity – as Europe's most daring secret agent. Illustrated by Tony Morris. -
In 1952, political tension in Europe nears breaking point as the Superpowers double and redouble the nuclear stakes - each one pushing the other as far as it will go. Nicholas Novak is an idealist, a left wing professor who views the international situation as remote and vaguely exciting. Then Nicholas' cousin, a top nuclear scientist, announces his intention to defect. Within hours, a quiet weekend dissolves into a nightmare adventure behind the Iron Curtain. Illustrated by Janet Archer. -
Gregory Sallust adventure No. IX. On a pleasure cruise in the South Seas, Sir Pellinore Gwaine-Cust's yacht hits a coral reef and sinks. Only one survivor is washed ashore - Gregory Sallust. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself among a community of Chinese, ruled by the descendants of the ancient Imperial House. Within days, the throne becomes vacant and Gregory joins an expedition to find the true heir - a hazardous search that takes him deep into the forbidden heart of China. Illustrated by Bill Jarvis. -
Roger Brook adventure No. V. August 1794: Roger Brook – Prime Minister Pitt's most daring and resourceful secret agent – had sailed for the West Indies with a party that included three beautiful women. His purpose: pleasure. But the Caribbean, blue seas, lush tropical islands and palm-shaded beaches, was infested with pirates. The slaves of the 'Sugar islands' were in revolt. All this Roger Brook encountered. But also he uncovered a mysterious episode in the early life of the Empress Josephine – a mystery that had its effect on the Parisian intrigues that led to Napoleon receiving his first great command: the Army of Italy. A mystery that tied together many strange scenes and unlikely events. Illustrated by Steve Henderson. -
Duke de Richleau IX. When the bombs fall on London, the elderly Duke de Richleau is forced to consider a problem of the utmost urgency. What methods are the Germans using to discover - with sinister effect - the secret routes of the Atlantic convoys? His answer is bizarre and fantastic. Could it really be that the enemy are in touch with supernatural powers? Can these powers only be overcome by those who have the knowledge and courage to join battle with them on the Astral Plane? The Duke and his supporters face the terrifying challenge from the Powers of Darkness. -
Gregory Sallust Adventure No. IV. Set against the background of the seventy days from Hitler's invasion of Norway in April to the surrender of the French in June, Gregory Sallust once more plays his part in adventure after adventure in Scandinavia, the Low Countries and right through France; his adversary on this occasion being the Black Baroness, the French associate of his old enemy Herr Gruppenfuhrer Grauber.