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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2011
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • The Last Warning

    Detective-Superintendent Budd is a busy man. In Thatchford on a minor investigation, calling on his old friend Superintendent Hawkins, he's asked to help with a murder mystery. One man has been stabbed, two of his business associates have been threat...

  • Dene of the Secret Service

    Bound for Liverpool to board his Japanese ship, OKI MARU, a korean seamani, is found murdered and his identity assumed by the killer. Then, after the ship sails, it disappears - presumed lost in a storm. The owner of a remote country house in Wales i...

  • The Nursery Rhyme Murders

    Mr Budd and Sergeant Leek investigate a peculiar murder in the village of Marbury. A body has been found in a derelict house called 'Jackson's Folly'. A note, pinned to the door, has the nursery rhyme 'The House That Jack Built' scribbled on it. Then...

  • The Dragon Princess

    In the tradition of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the Dragon Princess (Princess Yu-Malu) is ancient in age, but young and beautiful in form, vastly wealthy, and dedicated to the downfall of Western civilization. She's assisted by her Corps of Dragonflies, members o...

  • The Seven Lamps

    Jill Hartley has to take important papers to 18 Hayford Avenue, Berrydale, the home of her firm's client, Professor Locksley. But when she arrives at the neglected house she finds the front door open and huddled at the foot of the stairs lies a dead ...

  • They Walk in Darkness

    Horrifying events in the village of Fendyke St Mary left lambs with their throats cut. This was followed by the disappearance and murder of six young children - all with their throats cut. Who, or what, is commiting such barbaric murders?...

  • The Heel of Achilles

  • Death Set in Diamonds

    On a golfing holiday, playwright and criminologist Trevor Lowe and his assistant are on their way to see Sir Reginald Allerdyce. They encounter an old friend, Detective Inspector Shadgold, investigating a criminal known as the diamond bandit. When Si...

  • The Clue of the Green Candle

    Living in the village of Long Dene, best-selling novelist Roger Tempest is assisted by his secretary, Isabel Warren. When he unexpectedly disappears, private investigator Trevor Lowe is summoned. But eight days later, Tempest's body is found, dumped ...



  • The 'Q' Squad

    An habitual criminal attempts to snatch Penelope Hayes' handbag, yet is apprehended and charged. Two months later, she's abducted and chloroformed - and again rescued by the police. This time her assailant escapes with her handbag. It seems that the ...

  • Mr. Budd Investigates

    The canvas, seemingly daubs of red and green paint, showed, on closer inspection, a woman, her crimson lips twisted in a devilish leer... The man who had purchased the painting was found in his lodgings - stabbed to death - his painting stolen. While...

  • The River House Mystery

    Impresario Montague Hammond is scared. He's received threatening, anonymous letters, signed with the drawing of a man hanging from a gallows. And someone has been watching and following him. He invites criminologist Trevor Lowe to his riverside home ...

  • The Chained Man

    In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip the book over to read the second title), here's the sixteenth Wildside Mystery Double: THE CHAINED MAN: CLASSIC CRIME STORIES, by Gerald Verner. Criminologist Trevor Lowe and his secretary, accompanied by...

  • Noose for a Lady

    Sent to trial for the murder, by poison, of her husband John, Margaret Hallam is convicted and sentenced to death. Her appeal is dismissed and the Home Secretary refuses a reprieve. Simon Gale, an old friend of Margaret, returns from painting in Ital...

  • The Beard of the Prophet

    The murder is as impossible as it is horrible. Archeologist Reuben Hayles, following written threats to his life, receives police protection at his home. Superintendent Budd stations himself outside the door of his bedroom, while Sergeant Leek remain...

  • The Faceless Ones

    An organisation which was so mysterious and vast, its people had been called 'The Faceless Ones'; their file, held by the British Security Service, was labelled 'Group X'. So who are these people - what are their intentions? Magda Vettrilli had found...

  • Grim Death

    Rich Mrs. Mallaby is hated by almost everyone in the village of Long Manton. When she is murdered in the church, Superintendent Hockley is faced with a big problem - nearly everybody has a motive. And what about the five hundred pounds which the dead...

  • Murder in Manuscript

    The murder of a mysterious recluse in Barnet supplies Mr. Budd with one of the most difficult cases of his career. What is the connection between Jonathan Haines, the murdered man, and the typist who is found murdered later that same day? Mr. Budd, w...

  • The Glass Arrow

    West Dorling is a quiet, remote village. So what brings three men to live thereabouts at practically the same time? None of them seems to pursue any professional employment, yet they live in some style. When a local learns their secret and threatens ...



  • The Third Key

    The Reverend Colin Armitage receives a parcel one morning containing a key and the intriguing message: 'This is Bluebeard's first key.' The key belongs to the cottage of a woman named Sylvia Shand, who is found there, strangled. A few days later, Blu...

  • The Royal Flush Murders

    Superintendent Budd is called in by the local police of Long Millford to investigate the strange murder of John Brockwell, impaled to the trunk of a tree with a pitchfork. Pinned to the lapel of the dead man's jacket is a playing card: the ten of dia...

  • The Squealer

    Who killed Sir James Maddox? Inspector Burnett thinks he knows. He arrests Dick Mason, found standing over the body with a poker in his hand. Though Peter Escott, crime reporter for the MEGAPHONE, has other ideas and, with the assistance of Chief-Ins...

  • Mr. Whipple Explains

    Mr. Augustus Whipple spends most of his time reading detective stories and thrillers. And his hobby stands him in good stead when he is faced with crimes in real life, for his fictional experiences enable him to find a solution to two mysterious murd...

  • The Seven Clues

    Norris Jordan uncovers a fiendish plot and is about to give evidence to the British Government - but on his return to England he is murdered. Having anticipated this, however, he has concealed his evidence within an elaborate series of riddles, each ...

  • The House of the Goat

    Investigating the murder of a shabby man who had asked directions to the home of Lord Lancroft before being found brutally stabbed, Superintendent Budd has only one clue. Inside the man's jacket is a piece of paper, on which is written the Lord's nam...

  • The Evil of Li-Sin

    Get ready to meet the Yellow Peril all over again! Here are two novellas by Gerald Verner, writing as Nigel Vane, featuring the most despicable and wily Celestial yet: Li-Sin. In addition to "The Menace of Li-Sin" and "The Vengeance of Li-Sin", which...

  • The Football Pool Murders

    Most people would regard winning a fortune on the football pools as a stroke of very good luck - but for three particular people, their big win is anything but lucky. For after receiving their presentation cheques from the pools company, each of them...

  • The Hand of Fear

    Millionaire Felix Dexon left his London hotel one morning and never returned. Then his American lawyers began to receive hand-written instructions from him to regularly transfer large sums of money abroad, with the cheques made out to himself. The le...

  • Sorcerer's House

    Sinister events in the village of Ferncross have given the inhabitants good reason to respect the legend surrounding derelict Threshold House: whenever a light appears in the window of the Long Room, they know from experience that a corpse will be fo...



  • The Hangman

    Death stalks through the residential district of Hill Green, carrying off two prominent members of the community in two days. The first is a man found hanging from a lamp-post; the second, a young woman found hanging from a beam in the roof of a barn...

  • The Con Man

    Elmer Myers has nursed Mammoth Pictures into becoming the second-largest picture-making corporation in Hollywood. But for the last three years, mysterious accidents have held up the completion of his films, until all the profits have been eaten up in...

  • The Lady of Doom

    Whispers have reached Scotland Yard of an elusive figure that has appeared on the dark horizon of crime and is making its influence felt. Then the first threatening letter comes, demanding a huge payment, or death for its recipient. The victim goes t...

  • The Black Hunchback

    After researching the legend of the treasure of Langley Towers, Sir Owen Langley informs his daughter Pauline that he has discovered the hidden meaning of the doggerel verse left behind by an ancestor as a clue to its hiding place. But then he myster...

  • Phantom Hollow

    When Tony Frost and his colleague Jack Denton arrive for a holiday at Monk's Lodge, an ancient cottage deep in the Somerset countryside, they are immediately warned off by the local villagers and a message scrawled in crimson across a windowpane: 'TH...

  • White Wig

    A passenger is found shot dead in his seat on a London bus when it reaches its terminus. Apart from the driver and conductor, there have only been two other passengers on the bus, a white-haired man and a masculine-looking woman, who both alighted se...

  • The Ghost Squad

    Mingling with the denizens of the underworld, taking their lives in their hands, and unknown even to their comrades at Scotland Yard, are the members of the Ghost Squad - an extra-legal organization answerable to one man only. The first Ghost operati...

  • The Next to Die

    When a body is found under a pile of gravel at the foot of a bank, it looks as if the storm the previous night blew a cart-load over just as the man was passing underneath. But amateur criminologist Trevor Lowe notices that the soles of the dead man'...

  • The Whispering Woman

    Paula Rivers, a beautiful, haughty young cinema cashier, is selling tickets when her sister Eileen delivers a portentous note to her: 'BE CAREFUL. PEOPLE WHO PLAY WITH FIRE GET BADLY BURNED. SOMETIMES THEY DIE.' Not long afterward, Paula is found mur...

  • The Twelve Apostles

    Under the light of a full moon, amid the sinister ruins of an ancient abbey, a man gasps out his last breath as he lies in a pool of his own blood. Who, amongst the residents of the sleepy little village, has a motive for the murder? And how is it co...



  • The Grim Joker

    Mr. Hamilton Lorne is amused to receive a card with the grotesque picture of a fool, complete with cap and bells, one finger pointing at the holder. He and Superintendent Budd of Scotland Yard laugh at the threatening limerick scrawled across the bac...

  • The Huntsman

    Superintendent Budd is faced with one of his toughest assignments in separating the strands of mystery that grip the village of Chalebury: a series of robberies perpetrated by the burglar known as Stocking-foot; sightings of the ghostly Huntsman; and...

  • The Nightmare Murders

    Following a strange compulsion, Robert Harcourt finds himself consulting a fortune teller who gives him a sinister message. He says he sees Robert in a mansion, surrounded by happy faces. There is a woman, a beautiful woman. Robert is attracted to he...

  • The Tipster

    A mysterious man calling himself 'the Tipster' telephones the DAILY CLARION newspaper and announces his intention to commit five murders, beginning with Lord Latimer, Senior Steward of the Jockey Club. John Tully, News Editor of the DAILY CLARION, be...

  • The Vampire Man

    Conway Jackson, amateur criminologist, receives a disturbing letter from his uncle, Sir James Gleeson, informing him that he feels himself to be in terrible danger, and imploring him to come to his country manor. Unfortunately, the letter has taken s...

  • The Red Tape Murders

    Superintendent Budd's latest murder investigation begins with the murder of a solicitor, found strangled with red tape. Soon, two more local solicitors are murdered in similar fashion. Eventually Budd learns that two years earlier, a man shot himself...

  • The Frightened Man

    Samuel Coyne sends his ward Diana to enlist detective Paul Rivington as a bodyguard because three attempts have been made on his life. Although he denies knowing the attacker's motive or identity, he has erected elaborate defenses around his house. P...

  • The Token

    Four murders in just over a month, and not the ghost of a clue as to who has committed them - except that in each case a little silver bell was left on the body of the victim. Under pressure from all quarters, Detective-Inspector Shadgold seeks the h...

  • The Seventh Virgin

    When Constable Joe Bentley rescues what he thinks is a nude woman from the freezing waters of the River Thames, his catch turns out to be an exquisitely modelled tailor's dummy stuffed with thousands of pounds' worth of bank notes. Later that same mo...

  • The River Men

    Twenty-seven robberies, fifteen cargo broaches, and seven cases of murder: not in the past fifty years has there been such an outbreak of thieving and crime on the Thames; and in no single instance has the culprit been brought to justice, or his iden...



  • Mr. Budd Novelettes Stories of Crime and Detection Volume One

    Sinister HouseWhispering Beeches stood well back from the roadway, almost hidden by thickly-growing trees that gave it its name. Its owner, Doctor Shard, had been murdered by an unknown hand in his laboratory, since when the house has remained empty ...

  • Mr. Midnight

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    Gordan Cross, crime reporter for the DAILY CLARION, is detailed to discover the identity of a man known as Mr. Midnight, the mastermind behind a series of robberies and murders. Acting on a tip, he investigates The Yellow Orchid nightclub - and meets...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gerald Verner has published 51 books.

Gerald Verner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Mr. Budd Novelettes Stories of Crime and Detection Volume One, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Gerald Verner, The Last Warning, was published in March 2011.

No. Gerald Verner does not write books in series.
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