Adam Hall Elleston Trevor
Adam Hall is the best known pseudonym of British author Elleston Trevor [born Trevor Dudley-Smith] (1920-1995), who also wrote as Simon Rattray, Howard North, Roger Fitzalan, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith and Lesley Stone. He wrote all sorts of different genres, including spy thrillers, adventure, children’s books and more. He is best known for his Quiller series and for his novel The Flight of the Phoenix. Aside from writing novels, he also wrote stageplays, radioplays, screenplays and worked in journalism.

Adam Hall became a published novelist in 1943 with the children’s book Into the Happy Glade, which he wrote under his birthname of Trevor Dudley Smith. Most of his novels were written as Elleston Trevor – a name he debuted in 1946. The Adam Hall pen name was debuted in 1963 with the standalone novel The Volcanoes of San Domingo. Below is a list of Adam Hall’s books in order of when they were first released:

Publication Order of Wumpus Books

Publication Order of Woodlander Books

Publication Order of Hugo Bishop Books

Knight Sinister(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Queen in Danger(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bishop in Check(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pawn in Jeopardy / Dead Silence(1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rook's Gambit / Dead Circuit(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dead Sequence, etc(1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Quiller Books

The Berlin Memorandum / Quiller Memorandum(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The 9th Directive(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Striker Portfolio(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Warsaw Document(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Tango Briefing(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mandarin Cypher(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kobra Manifesto(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sinkiang Executive(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Scorpion Signal(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Peking Target(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Northlight / Quiller(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Quiller's Run(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Quiller KGB(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Quiller Barracuda(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Quiller Bamboo(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Quiller Solitaire(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Quiller Meridian(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Quiller Salamander(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Quiller Balalaika(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Into the Happy Glade(1943)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Over the Wall(1943)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
By a Silver Stream(1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Double Who Double Crossed(1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Heather Hill(1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Immortal Error(1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Chipmunks of Willow Wood(1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Island of the Pines(1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Now Try the Morgue(1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Secret Travellers(1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ants' Castle(1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Spy at Monk's Court(1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Chorus of Echoes(1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mystery of the Missing Book(1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Challenge of the Firebrand(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dead on Course(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Image in the Dust / Cockpit(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Redfern's Miracle(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Secret Arena(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sinister Cargo(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tiger Street(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Blaze of Roses / The Fire-Raiser(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Domesday Story / Doomsday(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Passion and the Pity(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shadow of Evil(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Naked Canvas(1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Steps in the Dark(1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Big Pick-Up(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Forbidden Kingdom(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Squadron Airborne(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gale Force(1956)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Killing Ground(1956)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Heat Wave(1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Pillars of Midnight / 80,000 Suspects(1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dream of Death(1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Crystal City(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Silhouette(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The V.I.P.(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Billboard Madonna(1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mind of Max Duvine(1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Burning Shore / The Pasang Run(1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Volcanoes of San Domingo(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Squirrel's Island(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Flight of the Phoenix(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Weave a Rope of Sand(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Shoot(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Blaze of Arms(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Freebooters(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Place for the Wicked (As: Elleston Trevor)(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bury Him Among Kings(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Expressway(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Paragon / Night Stop(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Blue Jay Summer(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Theta Syndrome(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sibling(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Damocles Sword(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Penthouse(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death Watch(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Siren Song(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Riviera Story(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sister(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Flycatcher(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wrong and Wright(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Elleston Trevor Miscellany(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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Notes: All standalone novels unless otherwise stated published as by Elleston Trevor. The Hugo Bishop series was written as Simon Rattray. The novels were later reissued as by Adam Hall, with Dead Silence re-titled Pawn in Jeopardy and Dead Circuit re-titled Rook’s Gambit. The Wumpus and Woodlander series were written as Elleston Trevor. The Berlin Memorandum was later re-titled The Quiller Memorandum. The Pekin Target was published in the United States as The Peking Target. Northlight was published in the United States as Quiller.

The Volcanoes of San Domingo, Secret Arena, The Sibling and Death Watch were published under the pen name of Adam Hall. The Sibling was also published as by Elleston Trevor. A Blaze of Arms was published as by Roger Fitzalan and later as Adam Hall. A Blaze of Roses was published in the UK as The Fire-Raiser. The Pillars of Midnight was later re-released in the UK as 80,000 Suspects. The Burning Shore was published in the USA as The Pasang Run. The Paragon was published in the USA as Night Stop.

Dead on Course, Sinister Cargo, Shadow of Evil and Steps in the Dark were written as Mansell Black. Over the Wall, Double Who Double Crossed, Escape to Fear, Now Try the Morgue, Into the Happy Glade and By a Silver Stream were written under the author’s real name of Trevor Dudley-Smith. Expressway was originally written as Howard North, then re-published as by Elleston Trevor. The children’s books A Spy at Monk’s Court, Mystery of the Missing Book and The Racing Wraith were written under the pseudonym of Trevor Burgess. Image in the Dust (aka Cockpit), The Domesday Story (aka Doomsday) and Naked Canvas were written as Warwick Scott, then later re-released as by Elleston Trevor. Heat Wave was written as Caesar Smith, then re-issued later as by Elleston Trevor. Siren Song and Rivera Story were written as Lesley Stone (aka Leslie Stone).

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