Order of Department Z Books
Department Z is a series of crime/spy fiction novels by English novelist John Creasey. Department Z is a British Intelligence agency set up in the early 1930s and is made up of civilians whose identities are unknown. The series is set around the time of World War II – contemporary of the time they were published in.
John Creasey began his Department Z series in 1933 with the novel The Death Miser. The series ran for 28 novels, concluding with 1957’s The Black Spiders. Below is a list of John Creasey’s Department Z books in order of when they were originally released (which is the same as their chronological order):
Publication Order of Department Z Books
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Department Z Synopsis: The Death Miser by John Creasey is the first Department Z novel. Millions of lives are at stake if a sinister international conspiracy succeeds. It’s up to England’s top detective agency, Department Z, to stop it. They must keep things quiet, too. Discretion is something that the Honourable James Quinion knows only too well – it’s all apart of being a member of the Secret Service. Department Z is described as “a home for bachelors with a suicidal turn of mind…” Its agents ready themselves for this high-profile, high-risk job. Quinion will find himself right in the firing line and in personal danger – how will he keep the conspiracy under control and under wraps?