Roderic Jeffries / Roderic Graeme Books In Order
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Concerning Blackshirt | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blackshirt Passes By | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blackshirt Wins the Trick | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Salute to Blackshirt | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Amazing Mr. Blackshirt | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blackshirt Meets the Lady | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Paging Blackshirt | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Double for Blackshirt | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blackshirt Helps Himself | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blackshirt Sees It Through | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blackshirt Finds Trouble | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blackshirt Takes The Trail | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blackshirt on the Spot | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Call For Blackshirt | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blackshirt Saves the Day | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Danger For Blackshirt | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blackshirt at Large | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blackshirt in Peril | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blackshirt Stirs Things Up | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Brandy Books
Publication Order of Don Kerry Books
Investigations are Proceeding / The D.I. | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Enquiries are Continuing / The Superintendent's Room | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of C. I. D. Room Books
The C.I.D Room / All Leads Negative | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Circle of Danger | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder Among Thieves | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Guilt Without Proof | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Despite the Evidence | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Call Back to Crime | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Field of Fire | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Murder Line | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Six Days to Death | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder is Suspected | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ransom Town | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Man Condemned | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Betrayed by Death | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One Man's Justice | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Inspector Alvarez Books
Mistakenly in Mallorca | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two-faced Death | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Troubled Deaths | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder Begets Murder | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Just Deserts | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unseemly End | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly Petard | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Three and One Make Five | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Layers of Deceit | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Almost Murder | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Relatively Dangerous | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Trick | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Clever | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Too Clever by Half | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder's Long Memory | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Fatal Fleece | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder Confounded | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Takes Time | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Arcadian Death | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Artistic Way to Go | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Maze of Murders | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Enigmatic Disappearance | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Artful Death | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ambiguity of Murder | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Definitely Deceased | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seeing Is Deceiving | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Intriguing Murder | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Air of Murder | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Sunny Disappearance | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder Delayed | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder Needs Imagination | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Instinctive Solution | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sun, Sea and Murder | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Question of Motive | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder Majorcan Style | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murdered by Nature | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Search of Murder | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Twice Checked | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Counsel for the Defense | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly game | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evidence of the Accused | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Burden of Proof | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Exhibit no. 13 | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Benefits of Death | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Will Anyone Who Saw the Accident | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Against Time! | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Embarrassing Death | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hand of Innocence | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Police Dog | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Consider the Evidence | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Against the Lawyers | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death in the Coverts | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hit and run | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Deadly Marriage | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Forget What You Saw | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Patrol Car | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Police Car | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Traitor's Crime | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prisoner at the bar | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Man's Bluff | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
To Protect the Guilty | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Police Patrol Boat | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bent Copper | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Man Will Be Kidnapped Tomorrow | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trapped | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Double Run | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Colour of Violence | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Three Layers of Guilt | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The riddle in the parchment | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Slow down the world | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Boy Who Knew Too Much | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hostage To Death | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Anger of Fear | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Missing Man | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Recipe for Murder | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Loss of the Culion | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Voyage into Danger | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eighteen Desperate Hours | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Guilt with Honour | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Peril at Sea | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Sense of Loyalty | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Presumption of Guilt | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sunken Danger Jeffries | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Ideal Crime | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Meeting Trouble | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Question of Principle | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Couldn't Be | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Crime Remembered | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Honourable Detective | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Conflict of Interests | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Illegal Solution | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly Reunion | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twisted Justice | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Judgment Deferred | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bitter Bite | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Price of Failure | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Loyal Disloyalty | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Web of Circumstances | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cost of Innocence | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Honest Betrayal | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder Will Out | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Looking-Glass Justice | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Truthful Injustice | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Fair Exchange Is Robbery | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evidentially Guilty | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly Corruption | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Illegal Guilt | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Dangerous Friendship | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jigsaw Guilt | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Criminal Innocence | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Justice Deferred | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Damned by Logic | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roderic Jeffries is British detective fiction author who also writes as Graham Hastings, Roderic Graeme, Jeffrey Ashford, and Peter Alding. Jeffries is descended from Quaker William Penn, who famously gave his name to the newly found colony of Pennsylvania. His father was the popular detective thriller writer Graham Montague Jeffries of the “Blackshirt” series of novels fame. Jeffries was born in 1926 London, and attended Harrow View House Preparatory School, before proceeding to University of Southampton Department of Navigation. He would go on to become a sailor, joining the New Zealand Shipping Company. The company sailed to New Zealand and Australia though the young Jeffries soon found a job with Union Castle Company, as he wanted to see other parts of the world. Upon his return to England in the middle of the century, he became a member of the Honorable Society of Gray’s Inn while he was reading for the Bar. He made it into the Bar in 1953 but had a terrible time as jurist losing all seven of his cases, severely denting his confidence as a lawyer. He decided the law was not for him and quit to pursue a career in writing and published his first novel in 1950.
With over 150 novels in his various names, Jeffries is one of the most enduring and popular of names in detective crime fiction. He is best known for continuing the “Blackshirt” series of novels started by his father Bruce Graeme, in which he wrote twenty titles. After immigrating to Mallorca in Spain, he would pen another of his very popular detective crime fiction series, “The Inspector Alvarez” series. His experiences working as a lawyer and in the merchant navy have had a significant influence on his writings. Many of the novels that may be best described as police procedurals explain how the justice and law enforcement systems work, while also trying to explain criminal behavior and psychology. Using his real name and numerous pseudonyms, he has written dozens of standalone novels and series that have gone on to become wildly popular. As Jeffrey Ashford, he wrote the “Inspector Don Kerry” series, as Peter Alding he wrote the “C.I.D. Room” which features Scotland Yard’s Inspector Fusil and Constable Kerr. Jeffries is currently settled in Mallorca, Spain where he lives with his wife and two children in a 17th century farmhouse. His novels have been published in dozens of countries and have been adapted for radio, television, and film.
Like many prolific writers of his time, Jeffries found that publishers would not allow him to publish his novels as fast as he would like, hence the need for pseudonyms. As such, similar to his character in “The Colour of Violence”, he took up pseudonyms and went on to publish over 60 mystery stories at the rate of about two to three titles a year. Starting with his father’s Blackshirt series, he wrote at least two dozen titles before he moved onto other titles. While most of his works are police procedurals, each author pseudonym has a distinctive character and plot for the novel series or standalone they write.
Roderic Jeffries earlier works were for the most part straight detective novels with no lead character. Over the years and especially after moving to Mallorca, he gravitated towards a strong lead starting with his most popular character, Inspector Alvarez. Jeffries “Blackshirt” and “Inspector Alvarez” series of novels are murder tales that involve clever courtroom tactics that call for the defendant to take charge of his own defense in an attempt at acquittal. The “Blackshirt” series of novels are about Richard Varell, a bestselling author and secret crook masquerading as a gentleman. Given his extensive knowledge on crime and criminals, the police often call on him to assist in resolving complicated crimes that are beyond ordinary law enforcement officers. Even as Varell starts out as a crook, his willingness to help others and good nature soon see him become a fully-fledged member of crime fighters in his city. Jeffries Inspector Enrique Alvarez character is a Spanish police officer who fights crime on Mallorca, a Spanish island resort. Alvarez is a middle-aged man who solves crime in a unique unhurried yet diligent approach that consistently delivers results.
“Concerning Blackshirt” is a top class whodunit about a country gentleman turned detective who uses the mechanisms of law to delay justice. It starts with Richard Varell the said gentleman spending a quiet weekend at a friend’s estate in Kent. Everything seems normal until he walks across the field looking for a good spot for some target practice and stumbles upon a Blower four and half Bentley in a garden shed. Rushing back to the house to fetch his host, they return to find themselves facing unseen gunmen shooting at them from semi-automatic weapons, followed by the roar of the Bentley roaring away. Surviving the scare unharmed, they flee to a nearby building only to find the body of a strange man. What better incentive to become involved in something that has nothing to do with him that a dead body. Blackshirt being who he is would never hesitate to take such a mysterious case. “Concerning Blackshirt” is a novel of dangerous secrets, revolvers, money, and chasing women as Blackshirt sets out to resolve one of the most intriguing of mysteries.
“Blackshirt Passes” by is a fascinating novel that is vintage Roderic Jeffries at his best. Richard Varell is out on an evening stroll minding his own business when he spots his car being dangerously driven behind the British Museum. Not a man to stand by and wonder how his car came into the possession of a man he knew nothing about, he sets out to track down the man through the backstreets. It is not long before he learns that the man driving the car had been the perpetrator of a daring raid targeting the British Museum. He had made away with only one item; a ruby and gold horse from the museums precious Saladin collection. Why would the man make such a daring raid to steal only one item is a mystery that Blackshirt is determined to unravel. Moving with the prodigious speed we have come to expect of the master detective, he delights as he traverses the posh estates of the elite of London, down to the darkest and dirties of its poorest, looking for clues and answers to a strange mystery.
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