James Pattinson

The gunners on the Golden Ray were a strangely assorted bunch....

Two survivors find themselves on board a Russian freighter bound for a secret destination. Slowly it dawns on Brett and his companion that they now know too much for their own good....

When Sergeant Fred Mason of the Maritime Royal Artillery eventually locates his new ship SS Radgate, he finds the little coaster quite a contrast to his previous posting....

English adventurer Harvey Landon is alone in New York - wanted by the police and with only a few dollars in his pocket. Theodore Cranefield offers him a job that he can't afford to refuse....

The drug trade route stretched from London across Europe and part of Asia to the borders of Afghanistan. Investigating one part of it cost the life of a police detective name George Lacon....

Alan Caley was far from delighted to receive a phone call from his old school pal Chuck Brogan, inviting him to lunch....

In this company, living in such close quarters, there was inevitably a certain amount of friction. But human passions would prove insignificant by comparison when the fury of the storm....

English adventurer Harvey Landon agrees to help his old Oxford friend, Don Vargas, who is plotting the overthrow of a South American government....

When Detective Sergeant Frank Devon was sent to the West Indian island of St Joseph on an exchange assignment, he was told that it would be more of a holiday in the sun than work....

It was Mrs Croyden who had been taken by the idea of digging up the history of the family. It seemed to be the kind of thing that everyone was doing nowadays....

Sam Grant is tasked with the job of tracing the vendor of a painting that had come up for sale at a London auction room....

Harry Banner turns up in London one November evening having just got back from Venezuela. He wants to see Robert Cade, a man he'd known six years earlier in Buenos Aires....

It was nearing the end of the road for The Merrymakers. Such companies of entertainers touring the towns and villages of East Anglia were finding things more and more difficult....

It seemed he had to be forever on the move. Until he met Eva Gray, and even that meeting was to lead in the end to tragedy....

There were five dead men in the cabin of the boat, lying under six fathoms of Caribbean water. But the men had not been drowned: they had been shot....

The search for Arnie Walker was not a job that Sam Grant was particularly keen to undertake....

When a valuable cargo ship is abandoned in the mid-Atlantic, Captain Barling of the SS Hopeful Enterprise has his own special reasons for wishing to tow it into port. But is he justified?....

Drake read the obituary for Howard Gray in the Daily Telegraph. It had intrigued him because he had been very close to Gray many years ago....

When a lifeboat marked 'Valparaiso I' is discovered, a strange mystery unfolds. The Valparaiso had been sunk by a Japanese submarine nearly a year earlier....

Paul Crane had not altogether liked the look of Skene and West when they turned up at his North Norfolk cottage and made him an offer he could not refuse....