James Pattinson

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....

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....

Kemp blamed himself: he should have kept more closely in touch with his younger sister. Now it appears that Lorna has gone off to Colombia with a man named Roberto Vargas....

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

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....

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....

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....

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

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....

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....

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 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?....

Peter Hadley, second mate of the British tramp steamer Ocean Waif, goes ashore in Philadelphia looking for the sister from whom he has heard nothing for two years....

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....

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

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....

Sometimes, in his own mind, Keele referred to himself as “The Booking Clerk”. This was a rather macabre private joke since the tickets he issued were all one-way....