[3 January 1933]

Series:

Duc de Richleau and friends adventure novel

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In the epicurean Duc de Richleau, the Jewish financier Simon Aron and the wealthy young American Rex Van Ryn, a modern trinity of devoted friends has been created whose audacious exploits may well compare with those of Dumas' famous Musketeers.

THE FORBIDDEN TERRITORY is a magnificent yarn. Vivid, exciting and ingenious it combines high qualities of style with thrilling, engrossing and provocative narrative.

[12 June 1933]

Series:

A one-off drama featuring Avril Bamborough and the film industry of Hollywood in the Thirties

'. . . Once we have begun our operations there can be no turning back, but if you agree to join me I have no single doubt as to our success. What is your answer?'

Hinckman stood up – his great chin jutted out and he threw his massive shoulders back as he replied: 'I guess this is the biggest proposition that's ever been put up, Lord Fortescue – but I'm your man!'

Lord Gavin took his hand, a sudden fire leapt into his strange, cold eyes. 'Within a year,' he said softly, 'you and I will be the richest and most powerful men in the world.'

[29 September] 1933

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One of two Historical Biographies, the other being Red Eagle; the story of the Russian revolution and biography of Klementy Efremovitch Voroshilov, Marshal and Commissar USSR.

We meet the king, attending affairs of state, with ladies at either arm; we go 'wenching' with his courtiers; excitedly follow him, disguised, working in servants' halls up and down the land, and hiding in the famous oak tree. And meet the artless, charming Nell – orange-seller, actress, companion to the famous and mistress to the merry monarch.

'Old Rowley' had a full life, but Dennis Wheatley has missed nothing. He is a master in the art of evoking atmosphere and is at his brilliant best in this fascinating biography.

[January 1934]

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Gregory Sallust in a science fiction/ drama novel

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England, involved through the ruin of other countries, is faced with financial collapse and revolution, bringing panic, street-fighting and an uncontrolled exodus from the cities to the countryside, where bands of starving people wander, pillaging for food.

Out of the terror and the bloodshed steps Gregory Sallust, to take the leadership of a group of men and women seeking only to survive: to lead them through bitter hardship and terrible hazard to a rural settlement which they fortify against invasion, and which, at first, seems reasonably secure. . . .

[24 August 1934]

Series:

A one-off adventure novel featuring the heirs of John Thomas Long

As the brute sprang she screamed and fell sideways. There was a snarling roar, a horrible choking gurgle and, as she tried to fling herself farther back upon the ground, she saw that the great cat was whirling round and round with her father underneath it. The fore-claws were buried in his shoulders and the hind ones tearing at his body.

She screamed again, half-mad with terror. The leopard suddenly stopped gyrating, then, seizing Henry's neck in its great teeth, it shook him like a rat. A rifle cracked, the leopard leaped sideways across her father's body and then Patricia fainted.

[12 December 1934]
(originally serialised in an abridged form in the Daily Mail from 31 October to 22 December )

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Duc de Richleau and friends in an occult novel

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Black Magic is still practised in all the great cities of the world.  This novel tells with macabre detail of a beautiful woman caught in a web of Satanists, of a young man brought to the verge of madness through his dabbling with the powers of evil.

As in Dennis Wheatley's The Forbidden Territory we meet the Duke de Richleau, Simon Aron, the Princess Marie Lou, and other characters.  From London to the West Country, from the slums of Paris to a Christian monastery, the action of this powerful occult thriller moves with fantastic, compelling force..