Jim Eldridge Books In Order
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Jungle Kill | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death in the Desert | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Urban Assassin | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Bug Club Books
BC NF Brown A/3C Machines on the Move | (0) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Meddlers: The Not-So-Merry-Go-Round | (0) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bug Club Pro Guided Year 6 The Road to Freedom | (0) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Step Inside a Story | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Plays to Act Tyrannosaurus Drip | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Plays to Act Tiddler | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flash the Dog Dives In! | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bumblebees, Sweets and a See-Through Stomach: Poems | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dragon's Tale and Other Beastly Stories | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Missing Milly | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Goha and the Shoes | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Bet | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Frog Fight | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Noises Next Door | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Don't Call Me Mum! | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flash the Dog Bounces In! | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Big Giant, Little Bear | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of DCI Paul Stark Books
Publication Order of Disgusting Dave Books
Disgusting Dave And The Farting Dog | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Disgusting Dave And The Flesh Eating Maggots | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Disgusting Dave and the Bucketful of Vomit | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Fantasy Soldiers Books
Death In The Jungle | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Killer In The City | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White Death | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Plague Ship | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Hotel Mysteries Books
Murder at the Ritz | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at the Savoy | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at Claridge's | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of London Underground Station Mysteries Books
Murder at Aldwych Station | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at Down Street Station | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Malichea Quest Books
The Invisible Assassin | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Deadly Game | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lethal Target | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Enemy | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Museum Mysteries Books
Murder at the Fitzwilliam | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at the British Museum | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at the Ashmolean | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at the Manchester Museum | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at the Natural History Museum | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at Madame Tussauds | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at the National Gallery | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at the Victoria and Albert Museum | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at the Tower of London | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of SAS Books
Hostile Terrain | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
London Siege | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secret Assault: SAS | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jungle War: Sas | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Survivor Books
Publication Order of Warpath Books
Tank Attack | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly Skies | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Behind Enemy Lines | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Depth Charge Danger | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Bomber | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Island of Fear | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Wrestling Trolls Books
Big Rock and the Masked Avenger | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hunk and Thud | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Rumble | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thud in Trouble | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jack Versus Veto | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Showdown | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Down Payment On Death | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bad Boyes | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
King Street Junior | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bad Boyes and the Gangsters | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Monsterman | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Uncle Jack and Operation Green | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Double Life of E.W.Potts, Schoolboy | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Time Riders | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Uncle Jack and the Loch Ness Monster | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Legend of the Lost Keys | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Desert Duel | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dunkirk Escape | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
4.3.2.1 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sink the Tirpitz | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bomb! | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood on the Wall | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Chapter Books
Publication Order of Picture Books
Tractor and Digger Save the Day | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tractor And Digger | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wayfarers | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Refugee Camp | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
Publication Order of Collections
Monster Summer Reading Pack | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spies And Special Forces! | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Second World War Stories for Boys | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Daring World War Two Stories for Boys | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Courageous First World War Stories | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The funniest joke book | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bogeys, Boils And Bellybuttons | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Save Our Planet | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Holidays Survival Guide | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Complete How to Handle Grown-ups | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Completely Misleading Guide to School | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What Grown-Ups Say and What They Really Mean | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Even More Ways to Handle Grown-ups | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Warriors! True Stories Of Combat, Skill And Courage | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Canny History of Carlisle | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Standing Alone | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
London Stories | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Charles Dickens | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stories of the First World War | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
1066 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Independence. War in Ireland | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of 50 Things You Should Know About . . . Books
50 Things You Should Know About The Tudors | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Things You Should Know about Fierce Creatures | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Things You Should Know About The First World War | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Things You Should Know About the Second World War | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Things You Should Know About The Human Body | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Things You Should Know About the Environment | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of My Story Books
The Titanic | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Story The Trenches | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hunger | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twentieth Century Girl | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Plague: A London Girl's Diary, 1665-1666 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Battle of Britain: Harry Woods, England, 1939-1941 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Suffragette | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sophie's Secret War | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cadogan Square | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nowhere to Run | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
War Spy | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Victoria | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Codename Céline | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Coming Home | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mayflower | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Princess Sophia Duleep Singh | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mary Prince | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of My Story: Boys Books
The Trenches: Billy Stevens, The Western Front, 1914-1918 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Battle of Britain: Harry Woods, England, 1939-1941 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trafalgar: James Grant, HMS Norseman, 1799-1806 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Armada: Thomas Hobbs, England, 1587-1588 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Agincourt : Jenkin Lloyd, France, 1415 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Waterloo: Bob Jenkins, Royal Horse Artillery, 1814-1817 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flying Ace: Jack Fairfax, Royal Flying Corps, 1915-1918 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
D-Day: Lieutenant Andy Pope, Normandy, 1944 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crimea: Michael Pope, 110th Regiment, 1853-1857 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spy Smuggler: Paul Lelaud, France, 1942-1944 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Desert Danger: Tim Jackson, North Africa WWII | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
U-boat Hunter: Peter Rogers, HMS Arum, 1939-1945 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roman Invasion: A British Boy, AD 84 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Viking Blood | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sweep's Boy: A Victorian Boy, London, 1870 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pyramid of Secrets | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dodger: The Story of a Victorian Pickpocket | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jim Elridge is a thriller, young adult fantasy, children’s fiction, historical mystery, and young adult fiction author from Kent. The author was born in London’s Euston suburb in 1944 and loves to style himself a survivor of V1 and V2 rockets during the Second World War.
Elridge quit school as a sixteen-year-old and held a variety of jobs before he went to train to become a teacher. He would go on to teach in many low-income areas in Luton, even as he built a career as a children’s book author and scriptwriter. He would later on quit his teaching career to become a full-time author.
Starting in 2010, he quit writing children’s fiction and scriptwriting as he was more focused on adult historical crime fiction. In the more than four decades that he spent writing scripts, he would be responsible for more than 250 broadcast scripts in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Some of his works include “King Street Junior,” a long-running comedy drama for the BBC. As a scriptwriter, he penned more than twenty series for ITV and the BBC.
Living in the post-Second World War era, his family did not have a TV and hence much of the entertainment was radio and reading. Jim Elridge particularly loved listening to the “Goon Show” on the radio.
Elridge began writing in his late teenage years as he got into short stories, and poems even though none of these will ever see the light of day. In 1965 he was fortunate enough to get one of his poems published in “The Tribune,” and this led to several of his works getting published in small magazines and several other places.
In 1966, he became a performance poet, playing to large audiences across the UK. In 1968, he was on Radio 1 show “Night Ride” as a guest poet interviewed by John Peel. By then, he had made the decision that he was interested in writing more fiction apart from poetry. He wanted to pen full-length fiction and scripts too.
His debut fiction work was published in 1971 and this was the same year he had his first commission as he was contracted to develop “Parsley Sidings” which starred Ian Lavender, Arthur Lowe, Liz Fraser, and Kenneth Connor.
Over the years, Jim Eldridge has written in a range of genres both as a scriptwriter and author. He has said that for him all he wants when he is writing is to pen a good story with interesting lead characters and a great supporting cast. He does this regardless of whether he is penning stories for children or adults.
While he has become a very successful author, he had said that had he not been an author he would have still been a teacher. Elridge always loved the teaching profession and particularly working with underprivileged learners in Dunstable and Luton.
He had then specialized in working with kids with additional needs and for a year, he taught at an ESN school where he used to communicate in Makaton.
After living in Cumbria and Ireland for many years, Jim and Lynne his wife now make their home in Kent.
“Murder at the Fitzwilliam” by Jim Elridge opens with the imminent launch of a new Egyptian artifact collection by the Fitzwilliam Institution. The employees were in the process of delivering and unpacking the boxes when what was believed to be an empty sarcophagus is found to have a dead body in it.
Sir William McKenzie calls upon Detective Inspector Daniel Wilson to do a low-key investigation since he does not want to attract the interest of the press. If the press got wind of the situation, it would likely jeopardize the exhibition.
First things first, Wilson needs to identify the victim with hardly any personal details to go with. The detective ropes in Abigal Fenton and while they initially have their disagreements, they soon come to an understanding. But Daniel seems to like his partner a lot more than he would wish to acknowledge.
Despite diligent investigations and a lot of leg work, they cannot seem to make any headway and things only get more complicated when they discover a second body. By this time, their employer has little option but informs the police which just complicates things for Daniel and Abigail.
Jim Elridge’s novel “Murder at the British Museum” is set in 1894 where the British Museum is holding a special exhibition.
The exhibition will be featuring a new work by Professor Lance Pickering that asserts that Ambrosius Aurelianus and King Arthur are the same person. When the professor arrives to lecture at the museum he is stabbed while in the restroom.
Abigail Fenton and Daniel Wilson are contracted to solve the mysterious murder by the museum. They are well qualified for the job as Abigail is a historian and archeologist and Danel is a private investigator who is a former detective with Scotland Yard.
But things get complicated when some youths come to the exhibition and soon after they break a glass case. Someone has also painted in red paint “Who Killed Ambrosius,” even as the museum is receiving letters demanding more money.
Finally, the man who published professor Lance’s book is stabbed in the exhibition hall while another youth is also stabbed in the former professor’s home.
The police superintendent believes the man responsible for all the crimes is the professor’s illegitimate daughter. But Daniel and Abigail are not so easy to convince as they continue with their investigations.
The two find themselves in a race to save the Museum’s reputation while the murderer grows increasingly worried that they are getting too close.
“Murder at the Ashmolean” by Jim Elridge is set in 1895. An executive who is working for the Oxford-based Ashmolean Museum is found murdered, with a single bullet hole in his forehead and the murder weapon close by.
The local police have declared his death a suicide since there is hardly any motive for anyone to kill the man. However, Gladstone Marriott the administrator of the museum suspects there is something fishy.
He knows Daniel Wilson as a private investigator who had showcased incredible shrewdness investigating the Ripper case. He brings alongside him Abigail Fenton an archeologist turned detective and the two promise to conduct a low-key investigation.
But their work immediately runs into headwinds as a lone agent from the Special Branch known for his intimidating and secretive methods interferes with them.
Meanwhile, there are also rumors of political ructions from Apartheid South Africa, lost Shakespeare play, and mislaid artifacts which tangles them in all manner of bureaucracy.
They are forced to make unlikely alliances but they are confronting players who seem to live by a different set of rules. They may also have to dig deep into their ingenuity and intellect to reveal the many secrets being held by the aristocracy.
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