 John Fenwick Blackburn was born in Northumberland. During the Second World War he served as a radio officer in the Merchant Navy. He was a schoolmaster in London and Berlin and a second-hand book-dealer before becoming an author. He is the creator of 'Charles Kirk', a general of Her Majesty’s Foreign Office Intelligence. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 'Charles Kirk' Novels | |
| 1) A Sour Apple Tree | 1958 |
| 2) Broken Boy | 1959 |
| 3) The Gaunt Woman | 1962 |
| 4) Colonel Bogus (US Title: Packed for Murder [1964]) | 1964 |
| 5) A Ring of Roses (US Title: A Wreath of Roses [1965]) | 1965 |
| 6) Nothing But the Night | 1968 |
| 7) The Young Man from Lima | 1968 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) A Scent of New-Mown Hay (Also published as: The Reluctant Spy [1966]) | 1958 |
| 2) Dead Man Running | 1960 |
| 3) Blue Octavo (US Title: Bound to Kill [1963]) | 1963 |
| 4) The Winds of Midnight (US Title: Murder at Midnight [1964]) | 1964 |
| 5) Children of the Night | 1966 |
| 6) The Flame and the Wind | 1967 |
| 7) Bury Him Darkly | 1969 |
| 8) Blow the House Down | 1970 |
| 9) The Household Traitors | 1971 |
| 10) Devil Daddy | 1972 |
| 11) For Fear of Little Men | 1972 |
| 12) Deep Among the Dead Men | 1973 |
| 13) Our Lady of Pain | 1974 |
| 14) Mister Brown's Bodies | 1975 |
| 15) The Face of the Lion | 1976 |
| 16) The Cyclops Goblet | 1977 |
| 17) Dead Man's Handle | 1978 |
| 18) The Sins of the Father | 1979 |
| 19) A Beastly Business | 1982 |
| 20) A Book of the Dead | 1984 |
| 21) The Bad Penny | 1985 |
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