Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death on Demand | 1939 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 2 | The Speaker / The Croaker | 1939 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 3 | Terror by Day | 1940 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 4 | The Secret Murder | 1940 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 5 | Who Was the Jester? / The Masked Gunman | 1940 | John Creasey | N/A |
| 6 | ‘Ware Danger | 1941 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 7 | Murder Most Foul | 1942 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 8 | There Goes Death | 1942 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 9 | Death in High Places | 1942 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 10 | Death in Flames | 1943 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 11 | Two Men Missing | 1943 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 12 | Rogues Rampant | 1944 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 13 | Death on the Move | 1945 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 14 | Invitation to Adventure | 1945 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 15 | Here is Danger | 1946 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 16 | Give Me Murder | 1947 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 17 | Murder Too Late | 1947 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 18 | Dark Mystery | 1948 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 19 | Engagement with Death | 1948 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 20 | A Puzzle in Pearls | 1949 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 21 | Kill or Be Killed | 1949 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 22 | The Dark Circle | 1950 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 23 | Murder with Mushrooms | 1950 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 24 | Death in Diamonds | 1951 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 25 | Missing or Dead? | 1951 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 26 | Death in a Hurry | 1952 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 27 | The Long Search / Drop Dead | 1953 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 28 | Sleepy Death | 1953 | John Creasey | N/A |
| 29 | Double for Death | 1954 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 30 | Death in the Trees | 1954 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 31 | The Man Who Stayed Alive | 1955 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 32 | The Kidnapped Child / The Snatch | 1955 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 33 | Day of Fear | 1956 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 34 | Wait for Death | 1957 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 35 | Come Home to Death / The Pack of Lies | 1958 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 36 | Elope to Death | 1959 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 37 | Don’t Let Him Kill / The Man Who Laughed at Murder | 1960 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 38 | The Crime-Haters | 1960 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 39 | Rogues’ Ransom | 1962 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 40 | Death From Below | 1963 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 41 | The Big Call | 1965 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 42 | A Promise of Diamonds | 1965 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 43 | A Taste of Treasure | 1966 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 44 | A Clutch of Coppers | 1967 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 45 | A Shadow of Death | 1968 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 46 | A Scream of Murder | 1969 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 47 | A Nest of Traitors | 1970 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 48 | A Rabble of Rebels | 1971 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 49 | A Life for a Death | 1973 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 50 | A Herald of Doom | 1973 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 51 | A Blast of Trumpets | 1975 | John Creasey | Buy |
| 52 | A Plague of Demons | 1976 | John Creasey | Buy |
“Patrick Dawlish is one of John Creasey’s most prolific series, running fifty-two books from 1939 to 1976 under the Gordon Ashe pseudonym. The series sends Dawlish through a range of thriller and mystery scenarios — wartime secrets, criminal conspiracies, murder investigations, and international danger. The titles themselves tell the story: Death on Demand, Terror by Day, Murder Most Foul, Engagement with Death.”
“Like many of Creasey’s series, the Dawlish books track real-world changes through their fiction. Wartime entries deal with espionage and sabotage. Post-war books shift to criminal organizations and cold case investigations. The series maintained a consistent pace of roughly one or two books per year across its thirty-seven-year run.”