Title | Publisher | Date | Issue Points - Notes |
The Wolf of Corsica | Mellifont | 1932 | |
The Yellow Fiend | Mellifont | 1932 | |
False Pretenses | Mellifont | 1934 | |
The Silver Panther | Gramol | 1934 | |
The Suicide Circle | Gramol | 1934 | |
Footprints in the Sand | Eldon | 1937 | |
And Worms Have Eaten Them | Gerald Swan | 1940 | |
The Demon of Desire | Gerald Swan | 1940 | |
Freak Racket | Gerald Swan | 1941 | |
Lost Souls in Bohemia | Gerald Swan | 1941 | |
Tough Ghosts | Gerald Swan | 1941 | |
Bren Hardy, Tough Dame. | Gerald Swan | 1942 | |
Dope Devils | Gerald Swan | 1942 | |
Silk! | Gerald Swan | 1942 | |
Snatched Dame | Gerald Swan | 1942 | |
Triggers Are Trumps | Gerald Swan | 1942 | Red cloth, gilt titles |
Shot-Silk | Gerald Swan | 1943 | Red cloth, black titles. Jacket 5/- |
Mystery of Me | Gerald Swan | 1944 | |
Bren Hardy Again | Gerald Swan | 1945 | |
Gunning in England | Gerald Swan | 1946 | |
Kissed Corpse | Gerald Swan | 1946 | |
The Running Killer | Gerald Swan | 1946 | |
Sheer Silk | Gerald Swan | 1946 | |
Spun Silk | Gerald Swan | 1947 | Blue cloth, gilt spine, blind
stamp front Dust jacket priced 5/- net |
£1,000,000 | Gerald Swan | 1949 |
Further Information - William J Elliott Biography
Sample from Shot Silk Almost everyone to-day knows what is meant when they hear or read any reference to "the Underworld." They know it for that strata of society wherein move and have their being, murderers, thieves, swindlers, courtesans, and all those pests and parasites who, by dishonest means, live and batten upon the rest of society. Most people are also aware that the Underworld, like the upper one, has its clearly denned social distinctions (thus the killer does not usually associate with the mere burglar, or the burglar with the sneak-thief—just as his Lordship does not associate with his butler, or his butler with the fellow who cleans the windows) and also that it is more or less national—that the Underworld of Paris, for instance, differs in many respects from that of London, and the Underworld of New York is different from either of them. But what a great many people are not, perhaps, aware of is that behind (or beneath ?) the ordinary Underworlds, there exists what one might describe as a tower-Underworld, which is international and which comprises only one class of individual. The inhabitants of this lower Underworld are comparatively few in number, but these few are infinitely dangerous to society. For they are the super-criminals—the King-pins of villainy. The men who finance, and frequently organise, the greater and more commercialised criminal avenues, such as the dope and the white-slave traffics, organised blackmail, and so on. And the trouble is that these individuals, responsible as they are for so much sin and misery, are very, very rarely called upon to pay socially for their crimes. They are far too clever for that! |
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