 Ralph Hammond Innes was born in Horsham, Sussex. He was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent. He worked as a journalist. In the Second World War he served in the Royal Artillery, first as a gunner and rising to the rank of major in the 8th Army. In 1978, he was awarded a C.B.E. In 1993, he received the Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 1) The Doppelganger | 1936 |
| 2) Air Disaster | 1937 |
| 3) Sabotage Broadcast | 1938 |
| 4) All Roads Lead to Friday | 1939 |
| 5) The Trojan Horse | 1940 |
| 6) Wreckers Must Breathe (US Title: Trapped [1940]) | 1940 |
| 7) Attack Alarm | 1941 |
| 8) Dead and Alive | 1946 |
| 9) The Killer Mine (Also published as: Run by Night [1951]) | 1947 |
| 10) The Lonely Skier (US Title: Fire in the Snow [1947]) | 1947 |
| 11) The Blue Ice | 1948 |
| 12) Maddon's Rock (US Title: Gale Warning [1948]) | 1948 |
| 13) The White South (US Title: The Survivors [1950]) | 1949 |
| 14) The Angry Mountain | 1950 |
| 15) Air Bridge | 1951 |
| 16) Campbell's Kingdom | 1952 |
| 17) The Strange Land (US Title: The Naked Land [1954]) | 1954 |
| 18) The Mary Deare (US Title: The Wreck of the Mary Deare [1956]) | 1956 |
| 19) The Land God Gave to Cain | 1958 |
| 20) The Doomed Oasis | 1960 |
| 21) Atlantic Fury | 1962 |
| 22) The Strode Venturer | 1965 |
| 23) Levkas Man | 1971 |
| 24) The Golden Soak | 1973 |
| 25) North Star | 1974 |
| 26) Solomon's Seal | 1980 |
| 27) The Black Tide | 1982 |
| 28) High Stand | 1985 |
| 29) Medusa | 1988 |
| 30) Isvik | 1991 |
| 31) Target Antarctica | 1993 |
| 32) Delta Connection | 1996 |