Title | Publisher | Date | Issue Points - Notes |
Bluefeather | Harrap | 1928 | US: 1928 Appleton |
Death's Eye | Harrap | 1929 | US: 1929 Appleton as The Shadow and the Stone |
Camouflage | Harrap | 1930 | US: 1930 Lippincott as Mystery at Newton Ferry |
Asking for Trouble | Ward Lock | 1931 | |
Consummate Rose | Hutchinson | 1931 | |
Storm Against the Wall | Hutchinson | 1931 | US: 1931 Lippincott |
The House on the Cliff | Hutchinson | 1932 | US: 1932 Lippincott |
Paid in Full | Harrap | 1933 | US: 1933 Lippincott as Paid in Full |
Watch the Wall | Harrap | 1933 | US: 1934 Lippincott as The Gentlemen Go By |
Odds on Bluefeather | Harrap | 1934 | US: 1935 Lippincott |
Third Time Unlucky ! | Harrap | 1935 | |
On the Night of the 18th | Nicholson | 1936 | US: 1936 Harper |
The Door in the Wall | Watson | 1937 | Dust jacket 7/6. Artwork by Bip Pares US: 1937 Harper |
The House in the Hills | Nicholson | 1937 | Dust jacket 7/6. Artwork by Bip Pares US: 1938 Harper |
The Dandy | Nicholson | 1938 | |
The Hut | Watson | 1938 | |
His Aunt Came Late | Nicholson | 1939 | |
And Be a Villain | Watson | 1939 | Red/black. DW 7/6. Artwork by Bruce Roberts |
The Creaking Chair | Collins | 1941 | |
The Dark Square | Rest Same | 1941 | |
Strange Landing | 1946 | ||
The Evil Hour | 1947 | Purple cloth, silver titles. Jacket 8/6 | |
The Bright Face of Danger | 1948 | ||
The Echo in the Cave | Collins | 1949 | |
The Lady on Platform One | 1950 | ||
Party of Eight | 1950 | ||
The Man No One Knew | 1951 | ||
The Frightened Man | 1952 | ||
Danger Round the Corner | Collins | 1952 | |
Too Clever by Half | 1953 | ||
Give Me the Knife | 1954 | ||
Where Is She Now ? | 1955 | ||
Saturday Out | 1956 | US: 1962 Walker | |
The Breaking Point | 1957 | ||
One Step from Murder | 1958 | ||
The Abandoned Doll | Collins | 1960 | Purple cloth, silver titles. Dust jacket 10/6 |
The House in Marsh Road | 1960 | ||
The Pit in the Garden | 1961 | ||
Virgin Luck | 1963 | US: 1964 Simon Schuster | |
Sleep of the Unjust | Collins | 1963 | |
More Deadly Than the Male | Collins | 1964 | |
Double Fault | Collins | 1965 | |
Die by the Book | Collins | 1966 | |
The Suspect Scientist | Hamish Hamilton | 1966 | Dust jacket artwork by Roger Payne |
The Mauve Front Door | Collins | 1967 | |
Death of a Philanderer | Collins | 1968 | US: 1969 Doubleday |
Of Malicious Intent | Collins | 1969 | |
The Shelter | Robert Hale | 1970 | |
The Curious Crime of Miss Julia Blossom | Macmillan | 1970 | |
The End of the Long Hot Summer | Robert Hale | 1972 | |
Death by Arrangement | Macmillan | 1972 | US: 1972 McKay |
A Little Matter of Arson | Macmillan | 1972 | |
A View from the Terrace | Robert Hale | 1972 | |
The Fatal Flaw | Macmillan | 1973 | US: 1978 Stein |
The Thirteen Trumpeters | Macmillan | 1973 | US: 1978 Stein Day |
The Fortunate Miss East | Robert Hale | 1973 | US: 1974 Coward McCann |
The Woman in Number Five | Robert Hale | 1974 | US: 1975 Coward McCann as as Burlington Square |
The Fairly Innocent Little Man | Macmillan | 1974 | US: 1977 Stein Day |
The Footpath | Robert Hale | 1975 | |
Don't Stop for Hooky Hefferman | Macmillan | 1975 | US: 1977 Stein |
Hooky and the Crock of Gold | Macmillan | 1975 | |
The Lost Half Hour | Macmillan | 1976 | US: 1977 Stein |
Hooky Gets the Wooden Spoon | Macmillan | 1977 | US: 1977 Stein |
Papersnake | Macmillan | 1978 | |
Hooky and the Villainous Chauffeur | Macmillan | 1979 | |
Hooky and the Prancing Horse | Macmillan | 1980 | |
Hooky Goes to Blazes | Macmillan | 1981 | |
The Secret of the Pit | Macmillan | 1982 | |
Silver Guilt | Macmillan | 1983 | |
The Open Door | Macmillan | 1984 |
Laurence Meynell Author Biography - Further Information
Laurence Meynell, a prolific writer in many fields of fiction and non-fiction, may be said to have emerged properly as a crime writer only late in his career with ,4 View from the Terrace (1972). In the years since he has produced a regular flow of books which may be divided into two distinct sorts. There are the books that have no running hero but generally have some somewhat outre circumstance as their mainspring, and there is the series of charming and salty books that feature "Hooky" Hefferman, a character so well conceived that he lifts the works in which he appears into a class of their own. It is in these books that the typical Meynell tone of voice, which shows intermittently elsewhere when it is appropriate, comes into its own. Hooky is a man of the bars, and the Meynell voice is a voice heard in bars. But it must be understood what "a man of the bars" is. He is not a bar-fly, someone who can scarcely leave a bar. who cadges drinks and company. He is not, by a long chalk, a drunk. Though he likes drink and is somewhat of a connoisseur of it—Hooky usually drinks a Pimm's No. 1 himself—it is not for the drink alone that he finds bars attractive. It is for the conversation, that special brand of conversation confined to bars. Conversation in clubs and common rooms may sometimes be as worldly and sometimes more witty, but bar conversation is unique. So Hooky is most at home in the right sort of bar, and Meynell's characteristic voice is much the voice of bartalk. salty, man-of-the-world, sexy but not dirty, tolerant, with its standards. As to the time that Hooky does not spend in bars, he makes a living, rather a precarious one, as a classy private inquiry agent, having worked once on the edges of journalism |