James Pattinson Books In Order

Harvey Landon Books In Order

Contact Mr. Delgado (1959)
The Liberators (1961)
The Last Stronghold (1968)
The Sinister Stars (1971)

Sam Grant Books In Order

Search Warrant (1973)
A Real Killing (1976)
Something of Value (1978)
The Syrian Client (1986)
Dangerous Enchantment (1987)
Legatee (1988)
Death of a Go-between (1998)

Novels

Last in Convoy (1958)
The Silent Voyage (1959)
Across the Narrow Seas (1960)
On Desperate Seas (1961)
The Angry Island (1968)
Find the Diamonds (1969)
The Golden Reef (1969)
Plague Makers (1969)
The Deadly Shore (1970)
The Rodriguez Affair (1970)
Three Hundred Grand (1970)
The Murmansk Assignment (1971)
Sea Fury (1971)
Watching Brief (1971)
Weed (1972)
Away with Murder (1972)
Ocean Prize (1972)
Fortune in the Sky (1973)
Marakano Formula (1973)
Cordleys Castle (1974)
The Haunted Sea (1974)
The Petronov Plan (1974)
Feast of the Scorpion (1975)
Freedman (1975)
The Honeymoon Caper (1976)
The Wheel of Fortune (1976)
Walking Shadow (1976)
Special Delivery (1976)
The Spanish Hawk (1977)
Final Run (1977)
Blind Date (1978)
Red Exit (1979)
The Courier Job (1979)
Levantine Trade (1980)
The Spayde Conspiracy (1980)
Busman’s Holiday (1980)
The Antwerp Appointment (1981)
Stride (1981)
Seven Sleepers (1982)
Lethal Orders (1982)
A Fatal Errand (1982)
The Stalking Horse (1982)
Flight to the Sea (1983)
Kavulu Lion (1983)
Car for Mr. Bradley (1983)
Precious Cargo (1984)
The Saigon Merchant (1984)
Dead of Winter (1984)
Come Home, Toby Brown (1985)
Life Preserver (1985)
Homecoming (1985)
Poisoned Chalice (1986)
Where the Money is (1986)
Soldier, Sail North (1987)
Paradise in the Sun (1987)
A Dream of Madness (1987)
The Junk Run (1988)
Killer (1989)
Dishonour Among Thieves (1989)
Operation Zenith (1989)
Wild Justice (1989)
The Spoilers (1990)
Dead Men Rise Up Never (1990)
With Menaces (1991)
Devil Under the Skin (1991)
The Animal Gang (1992)
Steel (1992)
The Emperor Stone (1993)
Fat Man from Colombia (1993)
Bavarian Sunset (1993)
The Telephone Murders (1994)
Lady from Argentina (1994)
The Poison Traders (1995)
Squeaky Clean (1995)
Avenger of Blood (1996)
A Wind on the Heath (1996)
One-way Ticket (1997)
The Time of Your Life (1997)
Some Job (1998)
The Wild One (1999)
Skeleton Island (1999)
A Passage of Arms (2000)
Old Pal’s Act (2001)
Crane (2001)
Obituary for Howard Gray (2003)
Bullion (2004)
The Unknown (2008)

Plays

Other Fellow’s Oats (1976)

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Other Fellow’s Oats
(1976)

James Pattinson Books Overview

The Rodriguez Affair

Harry Banner turned up in London one November evening. He had just got back from Venezuela and he wanted to see Robert Cade. He’d known Cade six years earlier in Buenos Aires and now Banner wanted a small favour, just to keep a parcel until he called back for it. The trouble was that Banner never did call back, because the next morning he was found dead in his hotel room with a stab wound to the chest. Other people came looking for the parcel at his flat, but by that time Cade had decided a trip to Venezuela might throw some light on the reasons for Harry’s murder. However, in San Borja, the climate could be very unhealthy for someone who went round asking too many questions.

Sea Fury

It was an oddly assorted company of passengers that boarded the S.S. Chetwynd in Hong Kong and Singapore to take passage to Fremantle. The old vessel, operated by a line that had a poor reputation, was the kind of ship that could hardly attract the finest officers or crew, and was patronized only by the least demanding or affluent of passengers. 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 indescribable fury of the storm hit.

Ocean Prize

When a valuable cargo ship is abandoned in the Atlantic, Captain Barling of the S.S. Hopeful Enterprise has very special reasons for wishing to tow it into port. But is he justified in risking men’s lives for the sake of his own desires? Shipmate Adam Loder thinks it is nothing but a wild goose chase, and chief engineer Jonah Madden is worried about his ailing engines. However, Barling has more than fearsome gales to contend with as a tenacious rival threatens his chances.

The Spanish Hawk

There were five dead men in the cabin of the boat, lying under six fathoms of Caribbean water. But the men had not been drowned they had been shot through the head at close range. John Fletcher had gone down to photograph a sunken ship, but he took photographs of the boat and its cargo of dead men instead. Soon he is having trouble with the island police, some men from President Clayton Rodger’s private army of thugs, and two CIA agents. Now Fletcher wishes he had followed his first impulse and said nothing to anyone.

Soldier, Sail North

The gunners on the Golden Ray were a strangely assorted bunch. The seamen were more of a type, but the soldiers seconded to the job could hardly have differed more from one another. There was the professional, Sergeant Willis, in love with his job, Vernon the intellectual, and Miller the tragic communistic misfit who found his Russian Mecca not quite what he expected. The background and past of each character in the book are skilfully woven into the narrative of the ordeal at sea in both directions, and experiences on Russian soil at Murmansk.

Bavarian Sunset

Sam Grant must find the vendor of a painting that came up for sale at a London auction room. Painted by a German Jewish artist who perished in a Na*zi concentration camp, the artwork had been stolen from a schloss in Lower Saxony in World War II, after which it had apparently vanished until resurfacing fifty years later. Who had possessed it for all those years? As Sam digs through years of cover ups, the case takes a fatal turn.

Old Pal’s Act

Steve Brady had not seen Linda Manning for years. Then quite out of the blue, she turned up on his doorstep. They had worked together during the Cold War and she had been with British Intelligence, raking him in as a kind of irregular auxiliary. Now she wants him to join her in South America where anything might happen.

Obituary for Howard Gray

Drake read the Obituary for Howard Gray in the Daily Telegraph. It intrigued him because he had been very close to Gray many years ago, though they had lost touch later for reasons that were certainly not mentioned in the newspaper. Indeed, there was a great deal that had been left out, and he felt he knew very well why. A lot had happened in those early years that whoever supplied the material for the obituary might have been reluctant to see in print. Drake wondered who that person might be, and he decided to pay a visit and try to solve the mystery. But nothing could have prepared him for what was to follow.

Bullion

Alan Caley was far from delighted to receive a phone call from his old school pal Chuck Brogan. It was quite some time since he had last seen Brogan, who had taken part in a gold robbery and been sent to prison for a number of years. Caley felt inclined to refuse the invitation, but Brogan was persuasive and hinted that the meeting might turn out to be to Caley’s financial advantage. So he agreed to have lunch with Brogan, little suspecting what dire consequences were to stem from that free meal.

The Unknown

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. And once started she became more and more enchanted by the project. Even her husband George, having once seen the ancient photograph of a most attractive girl, long since dead, was taken by the project. The only snag was that even Great Aunt Maud, the owner of the photograph, had no idea what had happened to the beautiful girl named Isabella. Apparently she had completely vanished and to the rest of the family had simply become The Unknown. Would the mystery ever be solved?