Secondhand Dennis Wheatley Collection Bargain Book Box SP2362

Secondhand Dennis Wheatley Collection (Heron Editions) Bargain Book Box

This box contains eighteen Dennis Wheatley novels from the collectible Heron Books edition, featuring the characteristic red faux-leather binding with gold tooling. This selection is particularly strong in the Roger Brook series and Gregory Sallust wartime thrillers, along with several of his standalone adventure and occult mysteries.

1. The Launching of Roger Brook The first book in the famous Roger Brook saga. It introduces the young hero in 1783 as he navigates the political intrigues of Europe, becoming a secret agent for William Pitt and finding himself embroiled in the lead-up to the French Revolution.

2. Strange Conflict A Duke de Richleau occult thriller set during World War II. The Duke discovers that the Nazis are using Voodoo practices in Haiti to locate Allied convoys, forcing him to engage in psychic warfare to stop them.

3. V for Vengeance A Gregory Sallust thriller set in 1940. Sallust is stranded in Nazi-occupied France and must organize a resistance movement, sparking hope and rebellion among the French people against their German oppressors.

4. The Devil Rides Out Wheatley’s most celebrated occult novel. The Duke de Richleau races against time to save his friend Simon Aron from a powerful Satanic cult led by the sinister Mocata, culminating in a terrifying night of magical warfare.

5. The Black Baroness A Gregory Sallust spy novel set during the invasion of Norway in 1940. Sallust infiltrates the highest levels of the Nazi command, encountering the deadly agent known as the Black Baroness.

6. The Prisoner in the Mask A historical adventure and prequel to the Duke de Richleau series. It details the Duke's early life in late 19th-century France and offers a fictional solution to the mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask.

7. The Ka of Gifford Hillary A supernatural thriller where Gifford Hillary is murdered but his spirit—his "Ka"—survives. He must watch helplessly as his killer plots against his country, striving to intervene from beyond the grave.

8. The Quest of Julian Day An adventure novel set in Egypt. A young Englishman, disillusioned with life, finds romance and danger as he gets caught up in a search for lost treasure and international intrigue in the desert.

9. Faked Passports Gregory Sallust returns in a daring mission to Nazi Germany. Using forged documents, he penetrates the heart of the Third Reich to extract vital intelligence, facing constant threat of exposure.

10. The Eunuch of Stamboul A spy thriller set in the exotic and dangerous city of Istanbul. The hero, S.S. Van Horne, uncovers a conspiracy to restore the Ottoman Empire, facing harem intrigues and a ruthless secret police chief.

11. They Found Atlantis A classic "lost world" adventure. An expedition uses a bathysphere to descend into the ocean depths, discovering that the ancient civilization of Atlantis still survives beneath the sea.

12. The Scarlet Impostor The first Gregory Sallust novel, set in the early days of World War II. Sallust infiltrates Germany on a mission to contact an anti-Hitler conspiracy, a plot often cited as an inspiration for James Bond.

13. Curtain of Fear A Cold War thriller set in Central Europe. An Oxford don gets drawn into a web of espionage and danger when he attempts to rescue a friend from behind the Iron Curtain.

14. The Sword of Fate A romance and adventure novel set during the Greek Civil War and the Arab-Israeli conflict. It follows the love story between a British officer and a Greek girl amidst the chaos of the Mediterranean.

15. The Fabulous Valley An adventure set in South Africa. The estranged heirs of an eccentric family must travel into the Kalahari Desert to find a secret valley rumored to be filled with diamonds.

16. The Strange Story of Linda Lee A crime and adventure story involving a young woman who becomes a stowaway to escape a murder charge. Her journey leads her into a world of smuggling and high-stakes criminal enterprise.

17. Uncharted Seas A group of travelers fleeing a revolution drift into a mysterious, weed-choked area of the ocean. They discover a graveyard of lost ships and a civilization trapped by the sea, cut off from the rest of the world.

18. Evil in a Mask A Roger Brook historical thriller. Brook travels to the courts of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, facing the machinations of Napoleon's agents and a mysterious, masked adversary who threatens his mission.