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Series: Dr. Palfrey

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els  John Creasey 45691 (212+ +many)

[1] "During 1953, John Creasey founded the Crime Writer's Association (CWA) in the UK." ...

Dr. Palfrey 

NN = series no. (indb only);
   YY = database year of Walker edition
1 = -- (no US ed. indb) "Traitors' doom"
  O.. 1942 --NEED augment, inclg hardcover format
    70 https://lccn.loc.gov/70126119 (with ISBN) 1 --NEED THIS EDITION // 70\65 a story of Dr. Palfrey
SFE reports no rev, no vt
[2 73\] https://lccn.loc.gov/72080534 "The perilous country" <= The Valley [#2] // 73\66 a Doctor Palfrey thriller
SFE (rev vt 1962) The Perilous Country
---- Wikipedia gives months Nov 42, May 43, Nov 43 for the first three
3 -- "The Legion of the Lost" T1814215K synopsis done
    // 74\65 
  Om£- 1943 Long (WorldCat also shows 1968 Long)
  Om$- 1944 Daye (US) --perhaps alone published early in the US
  O. 1965 Arrow Books #852 "Arrow ed., rev. and abridged by the author" 	
  LO..i 1974 ✓ --dnf 1974 newspapers
SFE reports for #4 to #11 revised eds. under original titles, Arrow Books 1962 to 1970(?)
[4 74\] https://lccn.loc.gov/73083308 "Dangerous quest" rev [#4 revised] // 74\65
[5 76\] https://lccn.loc.gov/75034828 "Death in the rising sun" [#5] // 76\69
[6 -- The Hounds of Vengeance (1945)
BL 1969 6r The hounds of vengeance: a Doctor Palfrey thriller. Revised ed.
[7 -- Shadow of Doom (1946)
[8 75\] https://lccn.loc.gov/75007517 "The house of the bears" [#8] // 75\62
BL 1969 8r The house of the bears: a Doctor Palfrey thriller. Revised ed.
9 77 L.$ $6.95 "Dark Harvest" --US ed. of the 1962 Arrow ; unknown $ource
    // 77\62 revised 
10 -- (no US ed. indb) "Sons of Satan"
11 78 LOm$ $7.95 "The Wings" --"LCCN is the source of the price" (not true 2018-10) ; unknown $ource for month
     // 78\69
12 -- (no US ed. indb) "The Dawn of Darkness"
13 -- (no US ed. indb) "The League of Light"
SFE (rev 1963)
14 -- (no US ed. indb) "The Man Who Shook the World"
BL The Man Who Shook the World, etc
SFE The 13th "Dr Palfrey" Adventure
SFE (rev 1963) The Man Who Shook the World
15 78 LOm.i $ "The Prophet"
BL The Man Who Shook the World, etc
SFE The 14th "Dr Palfrey" Adventure
16# 71 LO..i $ "The Killers of Innocence" <= The Children of Hate --1972 Award Books
     // 71\68 a Doctor Palfrey thriller
SFE (rev vt 1971) The Killers of Innocence: A Dr Palfrey Thriller
BL 1970 16r [The children of hate.] The children of despair: a Doctor Palfrey thriller. Revised ed.
SFE The Children of Despair (London: Jay Books, 1958) [vt of the above: pb/]
17: 69 -O.. "The Touch of Death" --1971 Lancer Books
SFE The Seventeenth "Dr Palfrey" Adventure
18 77 LOm$ $6.95 "The Mists" --"LCCN is the source of the price" (not true 2018-10)
     // 77\70 o[2] --1st most widely held in series
SFE The Eighteenth "Dr Palfrey" Adventure
Lpb The Mists of Fear
19: 69 LO.i $4.50 "The Flood" ✓ --Lancer Books as 1969 $0.75; unknown $ource
20. 68 LO..i "The Plague of Silence" --Lancer Books as 2 yrs later
     // 68\58 o[3] --2nd most widely held in series
SFE A "Dr Palfrey" Story
Luk The plague of silence, a "Dr. Palfrey" story
21d 67 O..i "The Drought"
    67 https://lccn.loc.gov/67023103 21 --NEEDs // a new Dr. Palfrey story
SFE A New Dr Palfrey Story
SFE Dry Spell (London: New English Library, 1967) [rev vt of the above: pb/]
o[4]
o[5]
22a 66 LOm$ "The Terror: The Return of Dr. Palfrey" (1962) ✓ --1968 Berkeley Medallion PV Don Erikson
     // the return of Dr. Palfrey
SFE The Return of Dr Palfrey
SFE (rev 1966)
BL 1962 22 The Terror. The Return of Dr. Palfrey.
BL 1966 22r? The Terror, etc.
23c 67\63 LO..i "The Depths"
BL 1963 23 The Depths. A new story of “Dr. Palfrey”.
SFE A New Story of Dr Palfrey
K as 1967-02-21
    Notes
    A Doctor Palfrey story. Cf. Hubin.
    The 23rd novel featuring Dr. Palfrey and Z5. Cf. Reginald, R. Science fiction.
24. 68\64 -O.. "The Sleep" --Lancer Books as 2 yrs later; unknown source (cover image?)
Luk The sleep
---- US eds. now published same or next calendar year ----
25b 66\65 -O.. "The Inferno" --1968 Berkeley Medallion PV Don Erikson
BL 1965 25 The Inferno. A Dr. Palfrey story.
SFE A Dr Palfrey Story
26. 68\67 O..i as 1967 "The Famine" --Lancer Books as 3 yrs later PV Bluesman
    68 https://lccn.loc.gov/68013253 26 --NEEDs // a new story of Dr. Palfrey
SFE A New Story of "Dr Palfrey"
Luk The famine: a new story of ʻDr. Palfrey
27. 68\68 LO..ic $ "The Blight" --Lancer Books as 1 year later "©1968, not likely published until 1969" PV Don Erikson
     //  a story of Dr. Palfrey
SFE A Story of Dr Palfrey
Luk The blight: a story of Dr. Palfrey
28= 70\69 LO.. "The Oasis" --Lancer Books as 3 yrs later
     // 70\69 (no ISBN) a story of Dr. Palfrey
BL 1969 28 The oasis: a story of Dr Palfrey.
SFE A Story of Dr Palfrey
Luk The oasis: a story of Dr Palfrey
29# 71\70 LO.. $ "The Smog" --1972 Award Books
K as 1970-02-05
     // a story of Dr. Palfrey
BL 1970 29 The smog: a story of Dr. Palfrey.
SFE A Story of Dr Palfrey
Luk The smog: a story of Dr. Palfrey
30 72\71 L..ic $ "THE UNBEGOTTEN: The 30th Story of Dr. Palfrey" --1975 Manor Books PV Marc Kupper
K as 1972-03-20]
     // 72\71 a Doctor Palfrey thriller
BL 1971 30 The unbegotten: the 30th story of Dr. Palfrey.
SFE The 30th Book of Dr Palfrey
Luk The Unbegotten; the 30th story of Dr. Palfrey
31 73\72 -O..i $ "The Insulators" --1975 Manor Books
SFE The 31st Book of Dr Palfrey
32 74\73 LO..i $ "The Voiceless Ones" --"LCCN typos the checksum ..." ; --no US soft
SFE The 32nd Book of Dr Palfrey
Luk The voiceless ones : the 32nd book of Dr. Palfrey
33 76\76 Lm$ $6.95 "The Thunder Maker" --"LCCN is the source of the price" (not true 2018-10)  --fake month ; --no US soft
     // c76 a new Dr. Palfrey adventure
BL 1976 33 The thunder-maker : a new Dr Palfrey adventure
SFE A New Dr Palfrey Adventure
34 -- (no US ed. indb) "The Whirlwind"
BL 1979 34 The whirlwind : the 34th Dr Palfrey adventure
SFE The 34th Dr Palfrey Adventure

US publication

66 - 22, 25
67 - 23, 21
68 - 20 24 26 27
69 - 17 19   [#27 The Blight not found in US newspapers]
("the blight" creasey) no hits 1968/1970 except Parley 1968 UK review, Hubin 1970 US pbk
70 - 1 28
71 - 16 29   [thus (14) 1 16-17 19-27] [#16 Killers not found in US newspapers]
("killers of innocence") no hits 1970/1972
72 - 30
73 - 2 31
74 - 3 4 32
75 - 8   [non-genre Bears, $5.95]
76 - 5 33 [#33, $6.95]
77 - 9 18
78 - 11 15 [thus (27) 1-5 8-9 11 15-33]

[missing 6-7 10 12-14 34] WorldCat shows no US eds. of the other seven unless London, New York John Long or Arrow Books sold here

no hits in newspapers (none as creasey)

1977 "dark harvest" ; "mists of fear"
1978 "wings of peace" ; "Prophet of Fire"

LC

(creasey palfrey) 27 hits!
(creasey palfrey) Walker 18 hits --LC linked above
hours later 21 LC records of Walker eds. are linked above, inclg 3 not among 18 search hits (9 Dark Harvest, 15 The Prophets, 18 The Mists)

+ The Flood, The Plague

WorldCat

3 from Lancer Books 1967/68/69 [6]
3 from Walker [7]
se"Dr. Palfrey" [8] (25)

("john creasey" palfrey) newspapers 1961 1965 (4 hits)

[9] The Observer 1963-07-07 p22, Kingsley Amis, "Science Fiction: Inner Space and Elsewhere" --inclg The Depths
The Observer 1964-06-14 p27, H&S one-line footer as last/least of four "The new JOHN CREASEY Dr. Palfrey The Sleep 15s"
[10] The Irish Times 1964-06-02 p9 "Some Recent Thrillers" --The Sleep 15/-
Variety 1965-11-03 p69; Chatter; London (Hyde Park 4561/2/3) "Thriller writer John Creasey sailed on the Elizabeth Nov. 29 enroute to Hollywood to sell tele rights of his new sci-fi book character, Dr. Palfrey.

1966 (2 hits, both US)

[11] Chi. Tribune 1966-05-22 pN4, Mort Vivian "Crime on My Hands" --explains the return of Dr. P (The Terror $3.50)
[12] NYT 1966-09-18 p407, Anthony Boucher "Criminals at Large" -- The Inferno $3.95, the most entertaining
[13] NYT 1967-03-12 p378, Anthony Boucher "Criminals at Large" --The Depths $3.95 (also one Le Fanu) --Uncle Silas T885686 15% abridged as a Paperback Library Gothic $0.75
"John Creasey has cut back to a mere seven books a year (not counting his careful revision of old material for the American market)" "the Dr. Palfrey series, those unfortunate melanges of melodrama with science fiction of the outmoded Mad Scientist, World Destruction school"
[14] NYT 1967-09-03 p182, Anthony Boucher "Criminals at Large" --The Drought $3.95 "one of the worst"
[15] Chi Tribune 1967-09-13 p21, Alice Cromie "... Capsule Reviews" --The Drought $3.95
[16] The Guardian 1967-03-29 p7, Geoffrey Moorhouse "The Toff at the Polls" --Creasey runs for office, All Party Alliance, cuts back from 14 to 7 books
Toff, June; ... Palfrey, November; Ashe, December "They will be started about the 7th and not later than the 10th of each month and finished on the 21st precisely ..."

1968

NYT 1968-03-31 pBR36, Anthony Boucher "Criminals at Large" --The Plague $3.95, newly revised
LAT 1968-06-23 pR40, Dorothy B. Hughes "The Crime File" --six from Walker at $3.95, inclg Palfrey The Plague, The Famine $3.95
Chi Trib -09-11 p24, Alice Cromie "Crime on My Hands" --The Sleep $3.95
NYT -11-03 p456, Allen J. Hubin, "Criminals at Large" --The Sleep $3.95
The Spectator 220.7305 -05-24 p710, Peter Parley --The Blight 18/- (negative, as unusually silly) ; The Blight not found in US newspapers

1969

NYT 1969-01-19 pBR10, Lewis Nichols "American Notebook" --19 scheduled for US publication this year inclg 4 Palfrey (12 from Walker)
NYT -03-16 pBR62, Allen J. Hubin, "Criminals at Large" --a fan of Palfrey
NYT -03-30 pBR36, Allen J. Hubin, "Criminals at Large" --The Flood $4.50; "easily the most chilling of the lot (3 Creasey from Walker) provided you don't mind that its science fiction aspect is not very credible." --q
NYT -09-14 pBR16, Allen J. Hubin, "Criminals at Large" --The Touch $4.50 (redd in 1954 UK also) "I suppose these Dr. P tales should best be described as fantastic mysteries: Creasey makes no attempt to legitimize the science they contain."

1970

NYT -05-17 p287, Allen J. Hubin, "Criminals at Large" --5 pbk Creasey reprints from Lancer at $0.75, inclg The Blight --NEED write Don Erikson
Chi. Tribune -06-11 p26, Alice Cromie "Crime on My Hands" --The Oasis "a horrendous plot"
Bos. Globe -06-28 pA68, Mycroft Holmes "The Mystery Shelf" --two Creaseys this week incl The Oasis $4.50
[17] Chi Trib -11-12 p18, Alice Cromie "Crime on My Hands" --Creaseys include Traitor's Doom $4.95 "early World War II espionage"

1971

NYT 1971-01-10 pBR22, Allen J. Hubin, "Criminals at Large" --The Smog $4.95
[18] NYT -02-28 pBR33, Allen J. Hubin, "Criminals at Large" --Traitors' Doom $4.95 "an intriguing overture to the series"
Chi. Tribune -03-31 p14, Alice Cromie "Crime on My Hands" --The Smog $4.95 "good scientific-thriller stuff, built out of John Creasey's pressing awareness of problems facing human society, and translated into diverting fiction"

1972

[19] Newsday 1972-04-16 pB40, Robert Wiemer "Mysteries" --The Unbegotten $4.95 (Palfrey is Creasey's weakest)

1973

NYT 1973-03-15 p40 "A Listing of Recently Published Books" --"The Perilous Country: A Doctor Palfrey Thriller" $5.95 --non-genre
June obituaries

1974

LCJ -08-18 p79 The Masters of Bow Street (posthumous, historical novel?)

1975/1979, 2 hits only ("john creasey" palfrey)

NYT -07-28 p19 "New Books", The House of the Bears (Walker, $5.95) --non-genre
Bos. Globe 1976-08-29 pA14, Mycroft Holmes "The Mystery Shelf" --The Thunder Maker $6.95 (also one Baron) "his backlog keeps rolling off the presses"
("john creasey" "thunder maker") no other hit


indb w cover image: 15-16 19-21 23 26-27 30-32 no cover image: 1 3 9 11 17-18 22 24-25 28-29 33

Walker at Amazon US, w cover image (3) (1 that we don'e have) Amazon US

T1349667

1976 1st not found at British Library --neither title nor BLIC 010686028
1976us --fake month-- LCCN, OCLC, Amazon US all show The thunder maker: A new Dr. Palfrey adventure (no hyphen; with subtitle)

British Library shows subtitles, perhaps thru-out --any other records, without subtitles? 

14 The Man Who Shook the World, etc - 000815538
15 The Prophet of Fire, etc - 000815610
1962 22 The Terror. The Return of Dr. Palfrey. - 000815659
1963 23 The Depths. A new story of “Dr. Palfrey”. - 000815412
1965 25 The Inferno. A Dr. Palfrey story. - 000815476
1966 22r? The Terror, etc. - 000815660
1969 28 The oasis: a story of Dr Palfrey. - 000815582
 1969 6r The hounds of vengeance: a Doctor Palfrey thriller. Revised ed.
 1969 8r The house of the bears: a Doctor Palfrey thriller. Revised ed. 
1970 29 The smog: a story of Dr. Palfrey. - 000815646
 1970 16r [The children of hate.] The children of despair: a Doctor Palfrey thriller. Revised ed. - 000815371
1971 30 The unbegotten: the 30th story of Dr. Palfrey. - 000815745
1976 33 The thunder-maker : a new Dr Palfrey adventure - ID missing
1979 34 The whirlwind : the 34th Dr Palfrey adventure - ID missing

1974 22 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815661
1942 1 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815736
1965 1r - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815737
1967 1 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815738
1943 3 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815526
1965 3r - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815527
1968 3r - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01004045357
1947 9 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815379
1962 9r - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815380
1969 9r - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01004045354
1947 10 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815649
1948 11 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815757
1969 11 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01004045360
1949 12 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815384
1949 13 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815524
1972 14 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815539
1980 15 £4.95 http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01010107167
1952 16 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815370
1954 17 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815735
1955 18 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815550
1967 18 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815552
1956 19 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815439
1959 21 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815419
1963 21 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815420
1967 21 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815421

http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01 

1958 20 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815595
1966 20 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815596
1964 24 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815644
1967 26 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815429
1968 27 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01004045352
1972 31 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815497
1973 32 - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&docId=BLL01000815750

LC (creasey palfrey) Hodder & Stoughton (9) 

20 [1958] O The plague of silence, a "Dr. Palfrey" story https://lccn.loc.gov/78000757
24 [1964] O The sleep https://lccn.loc.gov/74003774
26 [1967] O The famine: a new story of ʻDr. Palfrey https://lccn.loc.gov/67114495
27 1968 LO The blight: a story of Dr. Palfrey https://lccn.loc.gov/68131998
28* 1969 BO The oasis: a story of Dr Palfrey https://lccn.loc.gov/71543453
18p 1970 O (Hodder Paperbacks) The mists of fear https://lccn.loc.gov/70592385
29* 1970 O The smog: a story of Dr. Palfrey https://lccn.loc.gov/71578508
30* 1971 LO The Unbegotten; the 30th story of Dr. Palfrey https://lccn.loc.gov/73162555
32 1973 LO£ The voiceless ones : the 32nd book of Dr. Palfrey https://lccn.loc.gov/74196457

ISFDB Title records

Note 3*rev 21*rev
Syn (1) 3*

Full title may be:

  • The Whirlwind: The 34th Dr Palfrey Adventure

--full title of the 1st ed. in the series bibliography at SFE3 and heading of British Library catalogue record

Subtitle reported:

  • The Whirlwind: The 34th Dr Palfrey Adventure

--on the 1st ed., series bibliography at SFE3 and British Library

  • The Voiceless Ones: The 32nd Book of Dr. Palfrey

--on the 1st ed., Library of Congress

  • The Unbegotten: The 30th Story of Dr. Palfrey

--on the 1st ed., British Library and Library of Congress --on the US ed., Kirkus Reviews

  • The Unbegotten: The 30th Book of Dr. Palfrey

-- on the 1st ed., series bibliography at SFE3


SFE3

subtitles, 18 of 34, all but three beginning with #14! The Man Who Shook the World: The 13th "Dr Palfrey" Adventure (Evans, 1950) and #15! The Prophet of Fire: The 14th "Dr Palfrey" Adventure (Evans, 1951)
no subtitle: 16. Children of Hate; 19. Flood; 24. Sleep
cover artist for only two 16. Children of Hate, C H Richard; 31. Insulators, Jefferson Goodwin
revised?
no rev ed: 1 3 12 15 17-20 23-34
same title: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 22 (The Terror)
new title: 2 Perilous (uk/us), 16 Killers (us), 21 Drought (uk)
publisher Long 1-12, Evans 13-16, H&S 17-34

SFE3 Department Z "Including known fantastic titles only." (15, of 28 at Wikipedia)

Wikipedia lists 34 books (no subtitles) published 1942 to 1979. SFE3 lists all 34, many with subtitles --all containing 'Dr Palfrey', some in quotation marks-- including The 13th "Dr Palfrey" Adventure for the 14th in sequence as published, The Man Who Shook the World, and similarly for its successor The Prophet of Fire. (Other SFE subtitles that count volumes all match the publication sequence: 17-18, 30-32, and 34.)

Cover artist from SFE3 list of all 34 volumes C. H. Richard, #16 --niVIAF Cover artist from SFE3 list of all 34 volumes Jefferson Godwin , #31 --niVIAF


  1. 1 Traitors' Doom
1965 Arrow Books #853 revised and abridged o[20] o[21] --by the author; inferred from the parallel record of #852

Brittania and Eve 26.2 1943-02 p42+ "Books: Reviewed by Noel Thompson" 9/- brief review with cover/spine image "Probably the finest Secret Sevice story of the present War"; "SELECTION of the CRIME BOOK SOCIETY" 


Ernst Skokolov 164881 (1 work)
Ernie Socolov 122410 (1 work)
Ernest Socolov --nidb (1)[2] https://lccn.loc.gov/n91033192 https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n91-033192

Google images (many)

The Plague at ABEbooks, A Walker Mystery (spine), "[Dust Wrapper design by Ernest Socolov]"
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