John Newton Chance
1911-1983
Pseudonyms: John Drummond, John Lymington and Desmon Reid (house name)
 

John Newton Chance was born in London. He wrote short stories, children’s literature, mystery and science fiction novels. He served in the RAF during WW2. The novels written under the pseudonym 'John Drummond' and under the house name 'Desmond Reid' feature 'Sexton Blake', a detective modelled on Sherlock Holmes. See also this list for other Sexton Blake authors.
 

Titles and year of publication:  

  1) Murder in Oils  1935
  2) Wheels in the Forest  1935
  3) The Devil Drives  1936
  4) Maiden Possessed  1937
  5) Rhapsody in Fear  1937
  6) Death of an Innocent  1938
  7) The Devil in Greenlands  1939
  8) The Ghost of Truth  1939
  9) The Screaming Fog (Also published as: Death Stalks the Cobbled Square [1946])  1944
 10) The Red Knight  1945
 11) The Eye in Darkness  1946
 12) The Knight and the Castle  1946
 13) The Black Highway  1947
 14) The Brandy Pole  1949
 15) The Night of the Full Moon  1950
 16) Aunt Miranda's Murder  1951
 17) The Man in My Shoes  1952
 18) The Twopenny Box  1952
 19) The Jason Affair (Also published as: Up to Her Neck [1955])  1953
 20) The Randy Inheritance  1953
 21) Jason and the Sleep Game  1954
 22) The Jason Murders  1954
 23) Jason Goes West  1955
 24) A Shadow Called Janet  1956
 25) Dead Man's Knock  1957
 26) The Little Crime  1957
 27) Affair with a Rich Girl  1958
 28) Coven Gibbet  1958
 29) The Last Seven Hours  1958
 30) Man with Three Witches  1958
 31) The Fatal Fascination  1959
 32) The Man with No Face  1959
 33) Alarm at Black Brake  1960
 34) Lady in a Frame  1960
 35) The Crimes at Rillington Place  1961
 36) Import of Evil  1961
 37) The Night of the Settlement  1961
 38) Triangle of Fear  1962
 39) The Forest Affair  1963
 40) The Man Behind Me  1963
 41) Commission for Disaster  1964
 42) Death Under Desolate  1964
 43) Stormlight  1965
 44) The Affair at Dead End  1966
 45) The Double Death  1966
 46) The Case of the Death Computer  1967
 47) The Case of the Fear Makers  1967
 48) The Death Woman  1967
 49) The Hurricane Drift  1967
 50) The Mask of Pursuit  1967
 51) The Thug Executive  1967
 52) Dead Man's Shoes  1968
 53) Death of a Wild Bird  1968
 54) Fate of the Lying Jade  1968
 55) The Halloween Murders  1968
 56) Mantrap  1968
 57) The Rogue Aunt  1968
 58) The Abel Coinidence  1969
 59) The Ice Maidens  1969
 60) Involvement in Austria  1969
 61) The Killer Reaction  1969
 62) The Killing Experiment  1969
 63) The Mirror Train  1970
 64) The Mists of Treason  1970
 65) A Ring of Liars  1970
 66) The Three Masks of Death  1970
 67) The Cat Watchers  1971
 68) The Faces of a Bad Girl  1971
 69) A Wreath of Bones  1971
 70) A Bad Dream of Death  1972
 71) The Dead Tale-Tellers  1972
 72) Last Train to Limbo  1972
 73) The Man with Two Heads  1972
 74) The Farm Villains  1973
 75) The Grab Operators  1973
 76) The Love-Hate Relationship  1973
 77) The Canterbury Kilgrims  1974
 78) The Girl in the Crime Belt  1974
 79) The Starfish Affair  1974
 80) The Devil's Edge  1975
 81) Hill Fog  1975
 82) The Monstrous Regiment  1975
 83) A Fall-Out of Thieves  1976
 84) The Murder Makers  1976
 85) Return to Death Valley  1976
 86) The Frightened Fisherman  1977
 87) The House of the Dead Ones  1977
 88) Motive for a Kill  1977
 89) The Ducrow Folly  1978
 90) End of an Iron Man  1978
 91) A Drop of Hot Gold  1979
 92) The Guilty Witness  1979
 93) Thieves' Kitchen  1979
 94) The Death Watch Ladies  1980
 95) The Mayhem Madchen  1980
 96) The Black Widow  1981
 97) The Death Importer  1981
 98) The Mystery of Enda Favell  1981
 99) The Hunting of Mr. Exe  1982
100) Madman's Will  1982
101) The Shadow in Pursuit  1982
102) The Death Chemist  1983
103) Terror Train  1983
104) The Traditional Murders  1983
105) Looking for Sampson  1984
106) Nobody's Supposed to Murder the Butler  1984
107) The Bad Circle  1985
108) The Time Bomb  1985
109) The Psychic Trap  1986
110) The Woman Hater  1986
111) The Hiller Weapon  1987
112) The Hit Man  1987
113) The Smiling Cadaver  1987
114) Spy on Spider  1987
115) The Man on the Cliff  1988
116) The Offshore Conspiracy  1988
117) The Reluctant Agent  1988
118) The Shadow Before  1988
119) A Confusion of Eyes  1989
120) The Running of the Spies  1989
121) A Tale of Tangled Ladies  1989
As 'John Drummond'
 1) The Essex Road Crime  1944
 2) The Manor House Menace  1944
 3) The Painted Dagger  1944
 4) The Riddle of the Leather Bottle  1944
 5) The Tragic Case of the Station Master's Legacy  1944
 6) At Sixty Miles Per Hour  1945
 7) The House on the Hill  1945
 8) The Riddle of the Mummy Case  1945
 9) The Mystery of the Deserted Camp  1948
10) The Town of Shadows  1948
11) The Case of the "Dead" Spy  1949
12) The Riddle of the Receiver's Hoard  1949
13) The Secret of the Living Skeleton  1949
14) The South Coast Mystery  1949
15) The Case of L.A.C. Dickson  1950
16) The House in the Woods  1950
17) The Mystery of the Haunted Square  1950
18) The Secret of the Sixty Steps  1950
19) The Case of the Man with No Name  1951
20) Hated by All!  1951
21) The Myster of the Sabotaged Jet  1951
22) The House on the River  1952
23) The Mystery of the Five Guilty Men  1954
24) The Case of the Two-Faced Swindler  1955
25) The Teddy-Boy Mystery  1955
As 'John Lymington'
 1) The Night Spiders (short stories)  1964
 2) The Green Drift  1965
 3) Give Daddy the Knife  1969
 4) The Nowhere Place  1969
 5) The Laxham Haunting  1976
 6) The Waking of the Stone  1978
As 'Desmond Reid'
 1) Anger at World's End  1963

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