Ernest Dudley Bibliography

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This bibliography contains Ernest Dudley's mystery books
We cannot currently guarantee the chronology of books when more than one title was published in the same year.
We believe only one title was published in America and that is mentioned below
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Title	Published By	Date	Issue Points - Notes
Mr. Walker Wants to Know	Wright & Brown	1939
Meet Dr. Morelle	John Long	1943
Meet Dr. Morelle Again	John Long	1944
The Adventures of Jimmy Strange	John Long	1945
Menace for Dr. Morelle	John Long	1947
Dr. Morelle Meets Murder and other New Adventures	Findon	1948
The Crooked Straight	Hodder & Stoughton	1948
The Dark Bureau	Hodder & Stoughton	1950
Dr. Morelle and the Drummer Girl	Hodder & Stoughton	1950
The Private Eye	John Long	1950
The Harassed Hero	Hodder & Stoughton	1951	Blue cloth, black titles Dust jacket priced 9/6
Look out for Lucifer!	John Long	1951
Two-Face	John Long	1952
Picaroon	Robert Hale	1952	US: 1953 Bobbs
The Crooked Inn	Hodder & Stoughton	1953
T Dr. Morelle, with Arthur Watkyn	Evans	1954	A play
The Blind Beak	Robert Hale	1954
The Whistling Sands	Hodder & Stoughton	1956
Callers for Dr. Morelle	Robert Hale	1957
Dr. Morelle Takes a Bow	Robert Hale	1957
Dr. Morelle and Destiny	Robert Hale	1958
Leatherface	Robert Hale	1958	Dust jacket by Biro
The Mind of Dr. Morelle	Robert Hale	1958
Confess to Dr. Morelle	Robert Hale	1959
Alibi and Dr. Morelle	Robert Hale	1959
Dr. Morelle at Midnight	Robert Hale	1959
Dr. Morelle and the Doll	Robert Hale	1960
Nightmare for Dr. Morelle	Robert Hale	1960	Black cloth, green & silver Dustwrapper 10/6
To Love and to Perish.	Robert Hale	1962

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Ernest Dudley was a pseudonym of Vivian Ernest Coltman-Allen who was born in 1908.

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Sample from Harassed Hero
He stood on the pavement outside the large dispensing chemists, swirls of the fog which had descended on London with freakish suddenness eddying about him. He coughed nervously. At this rate he was certain to catch double pneumonia and be hi bed for a month or more. He might even die. He shuddered. If only he wasn't loaded up with all these parcels he'd have tried one of those lozenges he had in his pocket. He would have to wait until he got into a taxi. "Taxi . . . Taxi!" He should never have come out on a day like this, he told himself. He ought to have phoned Dr. Wyatt to put him off. It was only that he had felt so ghastly. He should have insisted on the doctor coming round to see him. Come to think of it if the chap had felt any consideration towards him he would have offered to call round himself. It was suicide expecting a patient to stagger out in weather like this. A veritable graveyard guarantee. He broke off his morose ruminations as a somewhat discrepit-looking taxi pulled in to the kerb. He dashed towards it. "Taxi ... I say, taxi!" The equally decrepit-looking driver turned a ginger moustache, dripping with mist, to him. "Orlright," he grunted irritably. "I heard yer first time. Where to?" "Chelsea. Number fifteen, River Street. Off the Embankment. Hold on, I've got to get these parcels in. Open the door for me, would you?" The taxi-driver eyed the brown-paper packages of varying shapes and sizes Murray Selwyn was clutching to him. He got

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