Sydney Horler

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Title Publisher Date Issue Points - Notes The Breed of the Beverleys Odhams Press 1921   Love, The Sportsman Hodder & Stoughton 1923 Reissued in 1934 by Collins as The Man with Two Faces The Mystery of No. I As Above 1925 US: 1926 Doran as The Order of the Octopus False- Face As Above 1926 US: 1926 Doran The House of Secrets As Above 1926 American: 1927 Doran The Black Heart Hodder & Stoughton 1927 USA: 1928 Doubleday In the Dark As Above 1927 US: 1928 Doubleday as as A Life for Sale Vivanti As Above 1927 American: 1927 Doran Chipstead of the Lone Hand Hodder & Stoughton 1928 US: 1929 Holt The 13th Hour. Readers' Library 1928   The Curse of Doone Hodder & Stoughton 1928 US: 1930 Mystery League Miss Mystery As Above 1928 US: 1935 Little Brown The Secret Service Man As Above 1929 US: 1930 Knopf Heart Cut Diamond As Above 1929   The Worst Man in the World As Above 1929   Lady of the Night Hodder & Stoughton 1929 US: 1930 Knopf Peril ! Mystery League 1930 UK: 1931 Hodder as Cavalier of Chance Checkmate Hodder & Stoughton 1930   The Screaming Skull As Above 1930   Danger's Bright Eyes Hodder & Stoughton 1930 US: 1932 Harper The Evil Chateau Hodder & Stoughton 1930 US: 1931 Knopf The Murder Mask Readers' Library 1930   Adventure Calling ! Hodder & Stoughton 1931   The Man Who Walked with Death Knopf 1931 UK: 1942 H & S Princess after Dark Hodder & Stoughton 1931 US: 1932 Mystery League as The False Purple The Spy Hodder & Stoughton 1931   The Mystery Mission H&S 1931   The Temptation of Mary Gordon Newnes 1931   Wolves of the Night Readers Library 1931   Vivanti Returns Hodder & Stoughton 1931   Gentleman in Waiting Ernest Benn 1932   High Stakes Collins 1932 US: 1935 Little Brown Horror's Head Hodder & Stoughton 1932   My Lady Dangerous Hodder & Stoughton 1932 US: 1933 Harper Tiger Standish John Long 1932 USA: 1933 Doubleday The Formula John Long 1933 US: 1934 Little Brown as The Charlatan Harlequin of Death John Long 1933 US: 1933 Brown Huntress of Death Hodder & Stoughton 1933   The Menace Collins 1933 US: 1933 Brown The Man Who Shook the Earth Hutchinson 1933   Beauty and the Policeman Ditto 1933   The Man from Scotland Yard Hutchinson 1934   The Secret Agent Collins 1934 US: 1934 Brown S.O.S. Hutchinson 1934   The Prince of Plunder Hodder & Stoughton 1934 US: 1934 Brown Tiger Standish Comes Back Hutchinson 1934   Dying to Live Ditto 1935   The Lessing Murder Case Collins 1935   Lord of Terror Collins 1935 US: 1937 Curl The Mystery of the Seven Cafes H&S 1935 Blue cloth, black titles. Jacket 3/6 The House in Greek Street H&S 1935   The Vampire Hutchinson 1935 US: 1974 Bookfinger The Stroke Sinister Ditto 1935   Death at Court Lady Collins 1936   The Grim Game Collins 1936 US: 1936 Brown The Trailer Collins 1936 As Above The Hidden Hand As Above 1937   Instruments of Darkness Hodder & Stoughton 1937   They Called Him Nighthawk As Above 1937   The Destroyer and The Red-Haired Death As Above 1938   The Evil Messenger As Above 1938   Dark Journey As Above 1938   Knaves & Co Collins 1938   A Gentleman for the Gallows Hodder & Stoughton 1938 US: 1938 Curl The Phantom Forward As Above 1939   Terror on Tip-Toe As Above 1939   Tiger Standish Takes the Field As Above 1939   Here Is an SOS As Above 1939   The Man Who Died Twice As Above 1939   The Enemy Within the Gales As Above 1940   The Return of Nighthawk As Above 1940   Tiger Standish Steps on It Hodder & Stoughton 1940   Enter the Ace As Above 1941   Nighthawk Strikes to Kill As Above 1941   Tiger Standish Does His Stuff As Above 1941   Danger Preferred Hodder & Stoughton 1942   Fear Walked Behind Robert Hale 1942   The Man in White Staples 1942   The Night of Reckoning Eyre & Spottiswoode 1942   The Hostage Quality Press 1943   High Hazard Hodder & Stoughton 1943   The Man Who Preferred Cocktails Crowther 1943   Murder Is So Simple Eyre & Spottiswoode 1943   Tiger Standish Has a Party Todd 1943   The Lady with the Limp H&S 1944   The Man with Dry Hands Eyre & Spottiswoode 1944   Nighthawk Mops Up H&S 1944   Murder for Sale Vallancey Press 1945   A Bullet for the Countess Quality Press 1945   Virus X As Above 1945   Dark Danger. Mystery House 1945 UK ?? Terror Comes to Twelvetrees Eyre & Spottiswoode 1945   Great Adventure and Out of a Dark Sky Robert Hale 1946 2 stories Corridors of Fear Quality Press 1947   Ring Up Nighthawk Hodder & Stoughton 1947   The Closed Door Pilot Press 1948   Exit the Disguiser Hodder & Stoughton 1948   The House with the Light Hodder & Stoughton 1948   The Man Who Did Not Hang Quality Press 1948   The Man Who Loved Spiders Barker 1949   They Thought He Was Dead Hodder & Stoughton 1949   Whilst the Crowd Roared Archer Press 1949   A Man of Affairs Pilot Press 1949   Master of Venom Hodder & Stoughton 1949   The Blanco Case Quality Press 1950   The High Game Redman 1950   The House of the Uneasy Dead Hodder & Stoughton 1950   Nap on Nighthawk Hodder & Stoughton 1950   Scarlet ! Special Branch Foulsham 1950   The Devil Comes to Bolobyn Marshall 1951   The Man in the Cloak Eyre and Spottiswoode 1951   The House of Jackals Hodder & Stoughton 1951   The Man of Evil Barker 1951   Murderer at Large Hodder & Stoughton 1951   The Mystery of Mr. X Foulsham 1951   Scarlett Gets the Kidnapper Foulsham 1951   These Men and Women Museum Press 1951   The Blade Is Bright Eyre and Spottiswoode 1952   The Face of Stone Barker 1952   Hell's Brew Hodder & Stoughton 1952   The Man Who Used Perfume Wingate 1952   The Mocking Face of Murder Hale 1952   The Web Redman 1952   The Cage Hale 1953   The Dark Night Hodder & Stoughton 1953 Red cloth, black titles. Jacket 10/6 Death of a Spy Museum Press 1953   The Secret Hand Barker 1954   Nighthawk Swears Vengeance Hodder & Stoughton 1954   The Man in the Hood Redman 1955   The Man in the Shadows Hale 1955   The Dark Hostess Eyre and Spottiswoode 1955   All page content © Classic Crime Fiction   Further Information Sydney Horler, born 18 July 1888 in Essex England and died in 1954, also wrote under the names Peter Cavendish and Martin Heritage. To say he was prolific is clearly an understatement and he was in direct competition with Edgar Wallace both in terms of style and output ! Series Characters  The Ace.  Sir Marker Bellamy.  Brett Carstairs.  Bunny Chipstead.   Sir Brian Fordinghame.  Gerald Lissendale.  Chief Constable Meatyard. Nighthawk aka Gerald Frost.  Sebastian Quin. Peter Scarlett.  Tiger Standish.  Baron Veseloffsky.  Paul Vivanti.  Robert Wynnton

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