Dixon Hawke Library List. Added as and when possible.
Dixon Hawke was called by many ,“The Scottish Detective” Hawke first appeared in 1919 in the Dixon Hawke Library, which ran through 576 issues right up to 1941, followed by Dixon Hawke Case Books, consisting of short stories. He also appeared in short stories in The Adventure. In the early 1970s he was still appearing in the The Sunday Post newspaper. Dozens of authors are known to have written the exploits of this famous sleuth.
Dixon Hawke was tall and aquiline, wore a dressing gown, and smoked a blackened briar. His assistant was Tommy Burke, and he had a bloodhound called Solomon. Hawke was a very influential detective, well enough known to dine with the Prime Minister. His friends at the Yard were Detective Inspector Baxter, Chief of Scotland Yard’s C.I.D. and Flying Squad, and William Baxford, Chief Assistant to Detective Inspector Duncan McPhinney. Hawke’s rooms were in Dover Street, just off Piccadilly and opposite the Ritz Hotel, and his housekeeper was a Mrs. Martha Benvie. A strange assortment of garments and disguises was littered in a small windowless room, sandwiched between two bookcases and hidden behind a curtain, and his rooms also had a somewhat hidden back flight of stairs, which few people knew about and which allowed him to get out unobserved. Hawke had a big Sunbeam roadster and a two-seater sports car that Tommy Burke drove.
More information on the Dixon Hawke writer Herbert Ford Inman, can be found either at: http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2007/06/herbert-f-inman.html or by contacting the web author himself at steve@worldst.demon.co.uk
After a background in the food and drink industry and retail,
John Radford's writing career started with children's comics, principally for
the Dundee publishing house of D.C. Thomson, with Judy comic for
girls, for which he wrote a good deal of the annuals from 1978 to 1985
as well as the weekly paper. He also wrote for the same publisher's
science fiction series Starblazer and contributed to other publications, including a series of stories about Dixon Hawke the Dover Street Detective for the Dundee Sporting Post. (below)
Below a list of Dixon Hawke Library titles:
No61. A Price on his Head. 1921.
No72. The Phantom Boxer. 1922.
No100. The People of Silence. 1923.
No121. Five way Chains. Early issue.
No138. The peril of the Orange Pips. 1924.
No160. The Phantom Detective. 1926.
No172. The Phamtom Acrobat. 1926.
No177. Bannister's Strange Hobby. 1926.
No186. The Second Fingerprint. Early issue.
No196. Man in the Blue Beret. Early issue.
No272. The Deputy Rajah. 1932.
No279. The Hermit of Roaring Canyon. 1932. A special bullion train that vanished completely from the track lets Dixon Hawke and Tommy Burke in for one of the biggest railroad mysteries they ever tackled.
No280. The Sign of the Velvet Mask. 1932. Set in Old Market, Bristol, the story starts with George Beston leaning comfortably over the bar at the Load of Hay public house, George was a small sized man of around fifty years of age, he lived alone in the tavern except for a rather deaf woman who came in by the day and often served behind the bar when busy. The story gors on with a man called Horton meeting up with Beston, Dixon Hawke is called in when George Beston is found stabbed to death. Another story in the series.
No281. Dixon Hawke-Witch Doctor. 1932. A bullion plane held up in mid air is the first step that takes you out to Africa in a worth-while detective thriller..
No287. The Phantom Driver. 1930.
No329. The House on Gibbet Hill. 1932.
No332. The Gorilla Man. 1933.
No333. The Fourth Chair. 1933.
No344. Convict 90's Last Laugh. 1933.
No346. The Trail of the Lighting Brand. February 25th 1933. In his latest yarn Dixon Hawke finds himself crossing swords with dr Den, a mysterious crook, who controls a worldwide criminal organisation. A gripping tale of ruthlessness and mystery that starts in a London street, moves to the underworld of Singapore and ends up amid the wilds of the African jungle.
No354. Donovan's Two-Gun Passport. June 17th 1933. A gang of men without souls! Men who are fighting-machines! New York is in a panic when these soulless men are let loose in the city and it is left to Dixon Hawke, Tommy Burke and the amazing Two-Gun Donovan to rid the city of the menace. How they risk life and limb to do it, makes "Donovan's Two-Gun Passport" the thrill story of the year.
No356. Doctor Corder's Cannibals. July 15th 1933. Tied to a stake and surrounded by yelling, dancing cannibals-in the centre of England! Thats one predicament in which Dixon Hawke finds himself in this new baffling mystery story!
No371. The Scarlet Company. 1934.
No372. The Riddle of the Red Hen. March 3rd 1934.
No373. Vengeance of the mummy. March 17th 1934.
No374. The Mystery Man from China. March 31st 1934.
No375. The Yellow Man's Warning. April 14th 1934.
No376. The Boss of Chicago. April 28th 1934.
No377. The Last Command of Tony the Rat. May 12th 1934.
No378. The Mysterious Mr Becker. May 26th 1934.
No379. Monzan's come-back. June 9th 1934.
No380. The Frozen Man's Double. June 23rd 1934.
No381. The Man who stole time. July 7th 1934.
No382. The Mandarin's Poppy. July 21st 1934.
No383. The Crook from Scotland Yard. August 4th 1934.
No384. The Queen of Crime. August 18th 1934.
No385. The Miracle man's lucky day. September 1st 1934.
No386. The Laughing Matador. September 15th 1934.
No387. The Jungle of creeping death. September 29th 1934.
No388. The Riddle of the Paper Face. October 13th 1934.
No389. The Menace of the heavy water. October 27th 1934.
No390. The Castaway K.C. November 10th 1934.
No391. The Threat from the desert. November 24th 1934.
No392. King Soloman's Key. December 8th 1934.
No393. Dr Hermann's Headhunters. December 22nd 1934.
No394. The Earthquake Master. January 5th 1935. “A terrible menace threatening all Britain- earthquakes in Devonshire and London! Dixon Hawke was called in to fight the arch-crook responsible for these horrors and you can read about their battle of wits in this issue”.
No395. The Terror of Fog Castle. January 18th 1935.
No396. The Curse on Captain Scarlett. February 2nd 1935.
No397. Marko's Hanging Witness. February 16th 1935.
No398. The Black Angel strikes again. March 2nd 1935.
No399. The Riddle of the Faceless Man. March 16th 1935.
No400. The Iron Man of Mayfair. March 30th 1935.
No401. The Man Millionaires Feared. April 13th 1935.
No402. The Hooded Accuser. April 27th 1935.
No403. Murder on the Fairground. May 11th 1935.
No404. K.C From Devil's Island. May 25th 1935.
No405. Master of Silence. June 8th 1935.
No406. The Clue of the Crimson. June 22nd 1935.
No407. The Chase to Misers Mountain. July 6th 1935.
No408. The Avenging Mask. July 20th 1935.
No409. The League of the Skull. August 3rd 1935.
No410. The Three men of Doom. August 17th 1935.
No411. The Phantom of Cell 19/ Lucky lorrance's Losing game. August 31st1930.
No412.
No421. The Man who was anybody. January 4th 1936. Dixon Hawke in a battle of wits against the greatest disguise expert of the underworld! Here is a story with a thrill in every line and a puzzle in every paragraph-a real thriller that will hold you breathless from the first line to the last. This booklet comes complete with "The Trail of the Iron Raider" a story which tells of a vengeance trail which led from the South Seas to England and introduces one of the most cunning rogues ever to pit his strength against Dixon Hawke.
No447. The Port of Missing Ships. January 9th1937. Six British ships, all carrying the same cargo, vanished without trace somewhere near the mouth of the Orinocco River, in South America. Dixon Hawke and his plucky young assistant Tommy Burke, set out on what had happened to the missing ships. The great story which tells of their search will thrill you from start to finish. "The Sinister Trademark" another story inside this issue.
No448. When the Snake-Men Ruled. January 23rd 1937. From the depths of the underworld a new terror arose in marseilles, Europe's most crime-ridden city. The Snake-men were at work. Dixon Hawke raced from London to combat them and the story of his amazing exploits in the dangerous alleys of Marseilles is told in this book. "The Quest for the Iron Man" another story inside this issue tells a great mystery yarn of queer happenings in South America's weird jungles.
No449. The Street of Blinded men. February 6th1937. What is Blackout-Dust? Why do men commit murder in order to get it? Dixon Hawke was faced with the grim task of answering those questions. When he did so, his life was in deadly peril! You mustn't miss the smahing story which tells the battle against a stick-at-nothing gang of international crooks. "The Left-handed clues" another story inside this issue.
No450. The Ghost Owl Swoops! February 20th 1937. Evil runs loose and death rides free. When the ghost owl nests, in the murder tree! That sinister rhyme put Dixon Hawke on the trail of a hidden killer who struck silently and swiftly. The great yarn which tells of the famous "tecs" most dangerous case. "The Luminous Man" another story inside this issue.
No456. The Riddle of the Doom Derrick/ Beware of weeping fog . May 15th 1937.
No458. The Man who stole Convicts/ The Crook from the Sea Bed. . June 19th 1937.
No459. The trail of the Headless Tigers/ The Case of King Henry the eight . July 3rd 1937.
No460. The Man Everybody Hated/ The League of the Forgotten crooks . July 17th 1937.
No461. The Television Murder/ A Rope for Wolf Samson . July 31st 1937.
No462. The Wrecker from U.S.A.. August 14th 1937. When a South-bound express was smashed, Dixon Hawke and Tommy Burke found themselves on the trail of a mysterious, shadowy monster-a man guilty of many murders.
No463. The Curse of the Traitor's Castle/ Who Stole the Outside Right? August 28th 1937.
No464. Victims of the Red Brazilian/ Death in the Streets of bells. September 11th 1937.
No465. Six Wolves of Doom. / Death takes the Red Hussar. September 25th 1937.
No466. The Red Bat Man. / The Return of Marko the Miracle Man. October 9th 1937.
No467. Death behind the Footlights. October 16th 1937. Death dogged the Follies-death grim and relentless. Murder, seemingly without motive-but Hawke found a clue! "The Man from the Big Top" another story inside this issue.
No468The Scalping Killer. / Death Coils of Kwang Si. November 6th1937
No469. Killer's Passport. / The Coming of the Great Madness. November 20 1937.
No470. The Mark of the Cleft Thumb./ The Vow of the Brown Moth. December 4th 1937.
No472. The Murder Melody./ The Prince of Squealers. January 1st 1938.
No473. The Ten Terrible Circles. January 1st 1938. A weird message came through from a dead Secret Service man-a message that took Dixon Hawke into the wild White Mountains of Central Europe. And there he found a madman-a madman who had the power to destroy the entire continent! also: "The Ghost of the Screaming Gull" another story inside this issue.
No474. Death's Jester. January 29th 1938. A young man was found murdered in a Mayfair flat. The murder struck terror into the hearts of London's millions-and somewhere a monster shook with evil laughter and planned fresh crimes. You can't afford to miss the leading detective story of the year. "The Man with the Crystal Face" another story inside this issue.
No475. King of Diamonds. / The House of Queer Sounds. February 12th 1938.
No476. The Man-Beast Prowls. February 19th 1938. A rustle in the under-growth-a flash of hideous claws-a strangled cry of agony-then silence. The Leopard Man had claimed another victim. Dixon Hawke is up against a ruthless killer in this thrilling mystery yarn. "Death behind the Winking Mask" another story inside this issue.
No477. The Secret of middle Oak. / Marko the Miracle Man-Millionaire. March 12th 1938.
No478. The Man who made Gold. / Death's Fingerprint. March 26th 1938.
No479. The League Behind Bars. April 2nd 1938. Who is the Big Boss? Is he a monarch of crime or is he just a myth? Dixon Hawke, as convict No923 hears rumours which send him into the low dens of the underworld on the trail of a master criminal who is planning "something big", on the trail of the Big Boss, plus: "The Man who died again" another story inside this issue.
No480. The Ring of Twelve Dread Signs. April 16th 1938. Death taps on the window of Moorside House and once again the murder leaves a mark on his victim- the Seventh Sign of the Zodiac. Dixon Hawke and Tommy are in some weird experiences when they follow up the clue of that mysterious symbol, plus: "The Diamond Doctor" another story inside this issue.
No481. The Ring of the Laughing Buddha. / The Clue of the Moon Shaped Scar. May 7th 1938.
No482. The Dum-Dum Bullets Mystery. May 14th1938. There was a frenzied shriek of terror followed by a frantic appeal which sent Hawke leaping for the door. Don't shoot me! Don't shoot me! Even as the dread words echoed through the place there came two shots followed by an agonised howl- just one of the many exciting incidents from this thrill packed yarn of Dixon Hawke and Tommy Burke., plus: "The Grey Man's Revenge" another story inside this issue.
No483. The Curse of the Sacred Crocodile. May 21st 1938. Something horrible seemed to throw itself from the surface. There was a snapping of hideous jaws; a scream of terrible fear and agony-then silence, broken only by the lashing of tails on the troubled surface of the pool. The Sacred Crocodiles of Molus had claimed their sacrifice, as was written in 1530 B.C. Dixon Hawke and Tommy have many weird and wonderful experiences when they unravel this tale of ancient and modern Egypt, plus: "The Trail of the Stoat" another story inside this issue.
No484. Murder under the microscope. June 11th 1938. Murder in a Railway Station in the middle of the English Channel! Thats the queer setting for this gripping detective yarn featuring Dixon Hawke and Tommy Burke, plus: "The Quest for the Fifth Vase" another story inside this issue.
No485. Three Keys to Doom. June 25th 1938. A Gunman just out of prison with a gun in his hand and murder in his heart. It was just by more chance that Dixon Hawke saw Box Krane, notorious gunman, leaving Dartland Prison after serving an eighteen month's sentence. But the chance into an amazing adventure and set mysterious and sinister figure of the underworld, known as the Master, plus: "The Flying Spider" another story inside this issue.
No486. The Dagger of Gunga Khan! July 9th1938. Was the Dagger of Gunga Khan to be dripping with blood-the blood of millions of Afghans? It looked like it until Dixon Hawke and Tommy stepped in and rescued it from the hands of ruthless criminals. How they carried it off successfully makes this a really outstanding detective thriller, plus: Beware of the Fatal Green Eye.
No487. The Dumb Destroyer! July 23rd 1938.The robberies seemed of little importance at first, but the man behind them was soon to become a menace to a great many people-to a whole city! The Dumb Destroyer had plans that were to be carried out to his advantage and those plans did not allow for Dixon Hawke. plus: The Secret of the Sinister Skulls.
No489. The Flash of Doom. 1938.
No490. The Vengeance of the Master! September 3rd 1938. Another gripping story of that shadowy figure of the underworld-The Master. Once more Dixon Hawke and Tommy cross swords with the archcriminal. The battle is carried right into the enemy camp this time and the secret of The Master is solved, plus: The crime of The Purple Star.
No491. Hawke in the Electric chair. / The Rajah's Poisoned Rubies. September 24th 1938.
No492. Beware the Three grim Men. / The Case of the Vanishing circle. October 8th 1938.
No493. The Unseen People. / Gallons of Death. October 22nd 1938.
No494. Keeper of the Fatal Eye! November 5th1938. What was the mystery of Nahari! Dixon Hawke knew that the word was Arabic and that it meant the Fatal Eye or Eye of Death. It was to solve the mystery that the famous detective and his assistant, Tommy Burke, journeyed to Morocco on a trail which led them into grim peril and brought them into contact with Abu-Kharvan, one of the most ruthless and dangerous rogues in the annuls of crime. And once again Dixon Hawke found himself pitting his wits against that shadowy figure of the underworld known as the Master, plus: Dead men do talk.
No495. Death Circus. / The Sign of the Grinning Skull. November 19th 1938.
No496. Smoke of a Thousand Crimes. / The Riddle of Red Hot Rivers. December 3rd 1938.
No497. Suicide for Sale. / The Room of Lying Clues. December 17th 1938.
No498. The Ship of the Lost Crooks! December 24th 1938. Somewhere in the English Channel theres a ship, on that ship theres a gang of crooks. On their trail is Dixon Hawke! That ship-gliding silently through the fog-provides Dixon Hawke and Tommy Burke with enough thrills and adventure to last them a lifetime, you too will capture those thrills when you read this latest detective story, plus: Madame Scarlet.
No499. In the shadow of the pendulum! January 14th 1939. Murder and Mystery follow each other with startling suddenness-death plays with loaded dice and quietly in the background the old grandfather clock ticks on! Why mention the grandfather clock? Because it plays a big part in this latest Dixon Hawke yarn, What that part is you won't find out until you've read the last chapter of this gripping tale, plus: The case of the Lost Golf Ball.
No500. Diamonds Spell Danger! January 28th 1939. Kenyon was a tough guy the worst little guy in the World to double-cross, he made a good crook-but he was a better detective Kenyon was Dixon Hawke! A bunch of crooks don't discover that till its too late. Kenyon put the wind up them as a rival crook fighting against the law-but with the law at his back he was even a more formidable enemy. This is a story you won't forget in a hurry. Hawke's every step is fraught with danger. Every move might be his last! plus: The Clue of the Ebony Cane.
No501. Yellow Face! February 11th 1939. An eerie yellow face looming out of the darkness-the swift chatter of a machine gun, then silence "Yellow Face" has claimed another victim! Five murders in three days and still the mysterious killer is at large-terrifying with his ghostly face-killing with a ruthless ferocity! Dixon Hawke battles against a master-mind of the underworld and the story of that battle makes great reading, plus: The Mystery of the Missing Bloodstains.
No502. The Valley of the Lost. / Frame Up. February 25th1939.
No503. The Man who Doomed an Empire. / Murder in the Mounties. March 11th 1939.
No504. The Man who died for twenty Years. / The Floating Death. March 25th 1939.
No505. Murder for millions. / The Battle at the Bank of England. April 8th 1939.
No506. Red Flame The Wrecker! April 22nd 1939. That dreaded word was on the lips of all London, the clanging of fire-bells sounded through the streets. Red Flame was at work! Dixon Hawke and Tommy declare war on this destroyer and find themselves up against another enemy equally as dangerous-The Master! Packed with thrills from cover to cover, this issue of the DHL is a sure fire winner, plus: The Clan of the crimson Star.
No507. The Clue of the Howling Dog! April 29th 1939. The Mottled Death Strikes Fast! Thrills!-When the howls of a dog lead Dixon Hawke and Tommy Burke into one of their most baffling cases, Excitement!- When a famous scientist is forced to give vital information to a gang of crooks! Adventure!-When Dixon Hawke and Tommy get on the trail of these crooks and face the terror of the Mottled Death!, plus: Follow the Five Gold Chains.
No508. Claws leave Clues. / The Stoat's Last Victim. May 20th 1939.
No509. Death on the Wing. / Who stole the Idol of Doom?. June 30th1939.
No510. Vengeance from the Condemed Cell. / Death Carge. June 17th 1939.
No511. The Crimes of the "Dart"./ Lightning Harry strikes Fast. July 1st 1939.
No512. Death Talks Twice! July 15th1939. A man is killed-his body disappears and the man comes down to breakfast next day! That is the problem Dixon Hawke is called upon to solve in one of his most sensational cases the Dixon Hawke Library has ever printed! The Hooded Snake is a monster with two heads and one amazing mind! Dixon Hawke and Tommy Burke have to be on guard day and night, plus: The case of the Poison Pen.
No514. Test-Tube Terror! August 12th 1939. A lifeless body-the peculiar scent of geraniums and the Silent Death has claimed one more victim! The Silent Death is a secret gas, in the hands of one man it is deadly. But if that gas were used in large quantities...Dixon Hawke and Tommy Burke like their cases to be full of thrills and they reckon this to be one of their best, plus: The Peril of the Yellow Room.
No515. The Case of the Shrunken Men. / Three clues to the House of Jewels. August 26th 1939.
No516. The Clue of the glass eye. / The Arizona Alibi. September 9th1939.
No517. The Sinker. / The Case of the Impossible Crimes. September 23rd 1939.
No518. The Terror of the Tombs. / Crime for Sale. October 7th 1939.
No519. Behind the Devil Mask. / The Secret of the Swaying Skyscrapers. October 21st 1939.
No520. The Threat of the Tattooed Spy! November 4th 1939. Dixon Hawke risks his life for his country many times in this smashing book-length yarn, plus: The Peril of the Orange Pips.
No521. Find the Lady. / The Killer on the Flying Trapeze. November 18 1939.
No522. The Stolen Judge. / The Terror of Trenton Priory. December 2nd 1939.
No523. Six millionaires for the Tiger. December 16th 1939.
No524. The Third Degree. December 30th 1939.
No525. Traitor Shenns. / The Clue in the Lion's Mouth. January 13th 1940.
No526. Death on the Slide. / The Village of Laughing Men. October 27th 1940.
No527. Behind the Evil Eye. / Phantom Reuben's Treasure. Feb 10 1940.
No528. The Shadow man of Berlin. / Beware of the Violet Mask. February 24th 1940.
No529. The Doom trail of the Squeaker! March 9th 1940. The Squeaker is on the trail again. The Master crook, who has been foiled so many times in his ruthless rackets by the brain of Dixon Hawke returns to tackle the greatest of all his crimes. Dixon Hawke once more fights against him in a great battle of wits. And this time he must not fail-because the safety of the British Navy is at stake, plus: Men with missing faces. Dixon Hawke crosses the Atlantic and helps his old pal Captain Clancy of the St Louis Police to clean up a bunch of American gangsters.
No530. The Purple Avenger March 23rd 1940. The purple dragonfly is not poisonous, but when men handle the dragonflies sent to them by the mysterious Yellow Master-they die! The Yellow Master is a ruthless being who burns for revenge, and he commands all the powers of modern science to help hime to achieve his aims. Not a single person survived the Purple Death-till Dixon Hawke took up the danger-ridden trail of the Chinese Menace!
No531. In the web of the Nazi spider. March 30th 1940. An up-to-the-minute thriller of the Nazi spy ring in the States Lone Wolf Cardron of the British Secret Service died a horrible death in a London tube tunnel-but his end spelt a message for Dixon Hawke-a warning of terrorism in the U.S., a forecast of the destruction of Britain's air and sea power, unless Hawke unravelled the web of the Nazi spider! plus: The Clue that winked. How Dixon Hawke fathomed the secret of the Unkown Six!
No532. Madman's Millions. April 13th1940. Two millions in gold, and only a madman knew the secret of where the yast treasure was hidden, The story of Dixon Hawke's life-and death struggle against Red Mask Baboti, the ruthless killer, who was on the trail of the Madman's Millions, makes a detective-thriller that will keep you reading to the very last line, plus: The Case of the Accidental Crook.
No533. The Looter from Cell 13. May 4th 1940. "Planner" Meegan they called him; a crook with a brilliant brain, landed behind bars by a squealer! Behind the bars of Cell 13 Lu Meegan could still plan, and the coup he planned in Cell 13 was stupendous enough to make an Empire gasp! Dixon Hawke took a strange way to combat the master criminal, and only Dixon Hawke was capable of planning such a dangerous game, plus: The Clue in the Chew.
No534. The fatal Tin Whistle. / The Crime Beyond the Cariboo. May 18th 1940.
No535. The Man who knew too many secrets! June 1st 1940. Here's a detective story that will keep you guessing from start to finish. On the anniversary of the murder, six people are congregated at the scene of the year-old crime. Each one of these six people had good reason to hate the murdered man and each was afraid of the other, but most of all were they afraid of one man-The Man with too many secrets, plus: The Hangman's Derby.
No536. The Clue of the Comic Cartoon. June 8th 1940. The hind legs and curly tail of a pig: the forelegs of a dog, and the head, well there was no mistaking whose head the unkown cartoonist meant to portray-the one and only Adolf Hitler! That cartoon clearly represented the German word schweinhund which means pig-dog and thats the clue that helped Dixon Hawke to foil a daring and dastardly Nazi plot. plus: The Two Unknowns. Another detective-thriller in this issue.
No537. The Doctor from Devil's Island. June 22nd 1940. A scuffle in the dark, the flash of a killer's knife, and the strange tale of a dying man! These plunged Dixon Hawke in an exciting chase across the high seas that ended on a sinister uncharted island, and to the fulfilment of a vow the great detective had made in the almost forgotten past. plus: "Solomon's Scentless Trail," Another complete yarn in the same issue, featuring Dixon Hawke's famous bloodhound.
No538. The Ghost of Gallow's Hill. / The Five-part Thumb Print. July 13th 1940.
No539. The Case of the Copper Egg. / Murder Behind Bars. July 27th 1940.
No540. Murder by Typewriter. / Gestapo Gangsters. August 10th 1940.
No541. Zorn of the hundred Faces.. August 24th 1940.
No542. The Jungle Hitler. / King of the River Rats September7th 1940.
No543. The Man who lived too long. / The Second No9. September 21st 1940.
No544. The Tomb in the Purple Grotto. / The Case of the Stolen Refugee. October 5th 1940.
No545. Spies against the Navy. / Three Men and one Hat. October 19th 1940.
No546. The Shadow of the Red Mask. / Find the Ticking Spider. November 2nd 1940.
No547. Death Stalks the Three blood Rubies. / November 16th 1940.
No548. The Clue of the Missing Fang. November 30th 1940.
No549. The Purple Doom of Doctor Krantz. / Traitor Spy. December 14th 1940.
No550. Behind the Laughing Mask. / Death in the Dark. December 28th 1940.
No551. Beware of the Scarlet Bottle. / The Fued at the Dying Oak. January 11th 1940.
No552. Traitor Shells. 1940.
No568. The Plague from the Sky. 1941.
Writers of Dixon Hawke.
Guy N. Smith was first published at the age of 12 in a local newspaper. His mother was a pre-war historical novelist (E.M.Weale) and it was evident even in his schooldays that he would follow in her footsteps. However, his father was insistent that he pursued a career in banking, which he did from 1956-1975.
Even during those banking years Guy wrote prolifically, contributing to many non-fiction countryside-related journals. In 1968 he began to devote his efforts to fiction and wrote a number of Dixon Hawke detective stories for D.C.Thompson. From there he progressed to the legendary London Mystery Magazine and had 18 stories published before its demise in 1982. He has had over 1200 short stories and magazine features published to date.
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Herbert Ford Inman was the second of the Reverend Inman's children, born in Dulwich in 1884. In 1901, still living with his parents, he was working as a mercantile clerk. He was married in Camberwell in 1908 and had a son and a daughter.
The earliest writing I can trace for H. F. Inman are his contributions to the Dixon Hawke Library in 1919. He would continue to write the adventures of Hawke and his assistant Tommy Burke until at least 1938 in both the Dixon Hawke Library and the boys' story paper Adventure. It seems highly likely that Inman also wrote other stories for the same publisher, D. C. Thomson, although anonymity was prevalent in the Thomson papers and tracing Inman's full output is likely to be an impossible task now that records have long disappeared.
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T. C. H. Jacobs (1899-1976), Born in Devon and living in Kent, Jacobs was a soldierly, no-nonsense gentleman who called a spade a spade in a voice that was gentle and gruff at the same time. Sadly, commercial fiction today supports very few craftsmen of his kind.
His experience was wide and long -- the army, the civil service, radio, film, Rotary, the Crime Writers' Association. . . . Jacobs's novel Traitor Spy was filmed in 1939-40, starring Bruce Cabot and released in the US as The Torso Murder Mystery. For D.C. Thomson, the periodical publishers based in Dundee, Jacobs was the author who wrote possibly the largest number of detective stories featuring Dixon Hawke, the company's rival to Sexton Blake. Jacobs produced most of the Hawke serials that appeared in the weekly Adventure in the 1930s as well as stories for the annual Dixon Hawke Casebook.
