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Ernest Dudley Books In Order

Dr. Morelle Books In Order

  1. Dr. Morelle and the Drummer Girl (1950)
  2. Dr. Morelle at Midnight (1959)
  3. Meet Dr. Morelle (1943)
  4. Menace for Dr. Morelle (1947)
  5. Dr. Morelle Meets Murder (1948)
  6. Callers for Dr. Morelle (1957)
  7. Dr. Morelle Takes A Bow (1957)
  8. The Mind of Dr. Morelle (1957)
  9. Dr. Morelle And Destiny (1958)
  10. Confess to Dr. Morelle (1959)
  11. Dr. Morelle and the Doll (1960)
  12. Nightmare for Dr. Morelle (1960)
  13. A Case for Dr. Morelle (2010)
  14. Dr. Morelle’s Casebook (2010)
  15. Dr. Morelle Investigates (2010)
  16. Dr. Morelle Intervenes (2010)
  17. Send for Dr. Morelle (2010)
  18. Dr. Morelle Elucidates (2010)
  19. Dr. Morelle Marches on (2010)
  20. New Cases for Dr. Morelle (2013)

Jimmy Strange Books In Order

  1. Meet Jimmy Strange (1948)
  2. Enter Jimmy Strange (2011)

Novels

  1. Mr. Walker Wants to Know (1939)
  2. The Crooked Straight (1948)
  3. The Dark Bureau (1950)
  4. The Harassed Hero (1951)
  5. Look out for Lucifer (1951)
  6. Two-face (1951)
  7. Picaroon (1952)
  8. The Crooked Inn (1953)
  9. The Blind Beak (1954)
  10. The Whistling Sands (1956)
  11. Leatherface (1958)
  12. Alibi and Dr. Morelle (1959)
  13. To Love and Perish (1962)
  14. Arthur (1970)
  15. Rangi (1970)
  16. Rufus (1971)
  17. Chance and the Fire Horses (1972)
  18. For Love of a Wild Thing (1973)
  19. Scrap (1974)
  20. Dog of the Storm (1979)
  21. Run for Your Life (1985)
  22. Scrap and the Dog of the Storm (1986)

Collections

  1. The Adventures of Jimmy Strange (1945)
  2. The Private Eye (1950)
  3. Department of Spooks (2011)
  4. More Cases of a Private Eye (2013)

Plays

  1. Return of Sherlock Holmes (1993)

Picture Books

  1. Badgers of Blind Dog Farm (1978)
  2. Brett, the Border Collie (1978)
  3. Cronk and the Golden Eagle (1978)
  4. Rope Hill Foxes (1978)
  5. Fishing Otter (1978)

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Non fiction

  1. The Gilded Lily (1958)
  2. The Badger (1975)
  3. The Wild Cat (1975)
  4. The Fox (1976)
  5. The Otter (1976)

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Ernest Dudley Books Overview

Dr. Morelle and the Drummer Girl

ERNEST DUDLEY is an English author known to millions of crime fiction addicts for his weekly Armchair Detective radio broadcasts, and also for the Doctor Morelle series of stories and radio plays in which the shrewd detective psychiatrist solved countless mysteries with the aid of his assistant, Miss Frayle. Dudley has revealed that Dr. Morelle has his genesis in a coal cellar in Bristol in 1940, where the author who already worked for the BBC Variety Department sat out German air raids. ‘The character of Dr. Morelle,’ Mr Dudley has remarked, ‘was finally evolved from my memories of the silent film star Erich von Stroheim who incidentally nearly played the part years later in a film version and whom Hollywood used to bill as ‘The Man You Love to Hate.’ In order to point up the self opinionated biting sarcasm of Dr Morelle, I gave him as a foil a pretty feather brained secretary, Miss Frayle. And so, Dr Morelle was let loose on millions of unsuspecting listeners, the first fictional character, I think, whom people hated so much they simply had to tune in and listen to him.’

Meet Dr. Morelle

Here is a collection of the strange adventures of Doctor Morelle, that most sardonic of characters, and his gentle, timorous assistant Miss Frayle, in a sequence of fifteen gripping episodes fifteen dynamically hair raising chapters from the Doctor’s case book. Meet Doctor Morelle throws some interesting sidelights on what is probably the most sensational partnership ever conceived in the field of crime. ‘Ernest Dudley’s creations appear to be doing not a little to fill the blank caused by the extinction of Gonan Doyle’s famous medical partners.’ Western Mail

Menace for Dr. Morelle

ERNEST DUDLEY who is known to millions of crime fiction addicts for his weekly ‘Armchair Detective’ broadcasts, is also author of the famous Doctor Morelle radio series and stories. Doctor Morelle accompanied inevitably by his assistant, Miss Frayle has solved scores of strange mysteries and curious crimes during his bizarre and sensational career, but none more intriguing or sinister than his latest adventure. This is Ernest Dudley’s first full length mystery novel featuring the saturnine and sardonic Doctor and the timorous, fluttering Miss Frayle. As followers of this oddly assorted couple’s investigations of murder and mayhem will expect, the shocks and thrills will be adroitly mingled with plenty of comedy and amusing situations. In Menace for Doctor Morelle Ernest Dudley has written a fast moving whodunit, rushing the reader along with chills following laughs right up to the smashing surprise climax with the identity of the murderer revealed. Fans of Ernest Dudley and his unique sleuth, Doctor Morelle not forgetting the inimitable Miss Frayle! will once again delight in a mystery murder, plus comedy entertainment. ‘Ernest Dudley’s creations appear to be doing not a little to fill the blank caused by the extinction of Conan Doyle’s famous medical partners.’ Western Mail

Callers for Dr. Morelle

This fourth mystery novel in which the noted psychiatrist detective, Dr. Morelle, and his Secretary, Miss Frayle, set out to probe a murder, begins when beautiful Thelma Grayson called at Dr. Morelle’s house in Harley Street, and vividly describes how, the night before, she had deliberately shot the notorious Ray Mercury. Mercury, Thelma tells Dr. Morelle, had been directly responsible for her sister’s suicide. The morning newspapers have, however, reported that Mercury shot himself. The question she now asks is: should she give herself up to the police, or should they be left to believe that Mercury, who anyway deserved to die, really had committed suicide? Dr. Morelle’s search for the answer leads him through a series of dark adventures in Soho’s underworld, and involves him and Miss Frayle with a very odd assortment of characters, before he unravels the mystery sur rounding Mercury’s death and finally traps the murderer.

Dr. Morelle And Destiny

ERNEST DUDLEY is an English author known to millions of crime fiction addicts for his weekly Armchair Detective radio broadcasts, and also for the Doctor Morelle series of stories and radio plays in which the shrewd detective psychiatrist solved countless mysteries with the aid of his assistant, Miss Frayle. Dudley has revealed that Dr. Morelle has his genesis in a coal cellar in Bristol in 1940, where the author who already worked for the BBC Variety Department sat out German air raids. ‘The character of Dr. Morelle,’ Mr Dudley has remarked, ‘was finally evolved from my memories of the silent film star Erich von Stroheim who incidentally nearly played the part years later in a film version and whom Hollywood used to bill as ‘The Man You Love to Hate.’ In order to point up the self opinionated biting sarcasm of Dr Morelle, I gave him as a foil a pretty feather brained secretary, Miss Frayle. And so, Dr Morelle was let loose on millions of unsuspecting listeners, the first fictional character, I think, whom people hated so much they simply had to tune in and listen to him.’

Confess to Dr. Morelle

In the fading but still tempestuous world of radio drama, Dr. Morelle finds blackmail and murder…
And must ultimately take to the microphone and the airwaves himself to unmask the killer! A thrilling mystery by the BBC’s famous Armchair Detective!

Nightmare for Dr. Morelle

Helping Interpol unmask the big wheel behind an international narcotics racket, Dr Morelle himself becom es involved in a train crash with unforeseen results. Mean while, his secretary, Miss Frayle, makes a flying dash acros’s Europe to help Morelle. ‘

The Dark Bureau

For many years, rumours concerning the activities of an international criminal gang with a chain of contacts in every large European city had been noted at Scotland Yard. Then the rumours assumed the shape of fantastic facts, as the exploits of the gang became ever more outrageous and daring. From wide scale dope running, to blackmail and spying and counter spying for who paid most, to white slave traffic all came within the limitless scope of this amazing organisation. At Scotland Yard, a special international department, the E Bureau, is set up to discover the mastermind behind the organisation. It quickly becomes dubbed The Dark Bureau, named after its charismatic and dynamic Chief, Algy Dark. Although from time to time various agents and smaller fry are run to earth, they are terrified to reveal any information that might uncover the fabulous crime colossus behind everything the grotesque and sinister man known only as ‘The Butterfly.’ Then the Butterfly’s operations extend to London, and the fat really hits the fire with the disappearance and kidnapping of Tod Archer, the presenter of a hard hitting television show exposing criminals, and the one man likely to uncover the secrets of the Butterfly…
Ernest Dudley, the BBC ‘Armchair Detective’ and creator of the famous ‘Doctor Morelle’ series, is at the top of his form with this exciting novel of sensational murder and intrigue.

Look out for Lucifer

Radium is not a substance that can be quietly stolen, and no questions asked especially in this age of atomic warfare. Inspector Faithfull and his mercurial sergeant, Somers, expected action when they were given the task of catching the thieves, but nothing so bewildering as the glamorous Miss Georgie Nash. Georgie had a flair for cropping up in the most unexpected places, and Inspector Faithfull, whose working hours were already burdened by a very dead body and a villainous character known as ‘Lucifer’ said some hard things under his breath. Before the case was many days old, quite a few blood pressures at the ‘Yard’ did a somersault, for ‘Wister Hale’, the mysterious ace reporter of the Daily World began forecasting, with uncanny accuracy, the movements of police and crook alike. This fresh headache found the inspector puzzled but unperturbed ; he was convinced that his turn was coming, with a vengeance. And come it did, with a suddenness which surprised everyone except ‘Wister Hale’ ! Ernest Dudley’s latest offering is an absorbing thriller in his best tradition, a ‘must’ for all armchair detectives.

Alibi and Dr. Morelle

At the time that Ted Patrick is planning to pull off his biggest house breaking job, Dr. Morelle, aided as ever by Miss Frayle, sets up an off beat criminological experiment, which is destined to have unexpected results. The success of Ted Patrick?s coup, achieved with the inside help of a pretty blonde, Myra Campbell, is marred by the killing of a village policeman. Patrick gets away with the loot but runs into trouble when his cleverly planned alibi crumbles dramatically. In a last desperate effort to keep himself in the clear, he deliberately becomes involved in Dr. Morelle?s strange scheme. At first it seems that Ted Patrick?s luck will hold, but he reckons without Dr. Morelle…
and without Myra Campbell herself!

The Adventures of Jimmy Strange

ERNEST DUDLEY is an English author known to millions of crime fiction addicts for his weekly _Armchair Detective_ roadio broadcasts, and also for the Doctor Morelle series of stories and radio plays in which the shrewd detective psychiatrist solved countless mysteries with the aid of his assistant, Miss Frayle. The Adventure of Jimmy Strange presents fifteen short stories about a new hero Jimmy Strange.

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