 William Arthur Howard Baker also wrote under the pseudonyms 'William Arthur', 'W.A. Ballinger', 'Peter Saxon', and 'Richard Williams'. Most of the novels he wrote under his own name and the novels he wrote under the pseudonyms 'William Arthur', 'W.A. Ballinger', 'Peter Saxon', and 'Richard Williams' feature 'Sexton Blake', a detective modelled on Sherlock Holmes. See also this list for other Sexton Blake authors. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 'Sexton Blake' Novels | |
| 1) The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1955 |
| 2) Without Warning | 1955 |
| 3) Battle Song | 1956 |
| 4) Dark Mambo | 1956 |
| 5) Devil's Can-Can | 1956 |
| 6) The Frightened Lady (Also published as: The Fugitive [1965]) | 1956 |
| 7) It Happened in Hamburg | 1956 |
| 8) Requiem for Redheads | 1956 |
| 9) Shoot When Ready | 1957 |
| 10) Walk in Fear (Also published as: Every Man an Enemy [1966]) | 1957 |
| 11) Appointment with Danger | 1958 |
| 12) Crime Is My Business | 1958 |
| 13) Crime on My Mind | 1958 |
| 14) Murder Most Intimate | 1958 |
| 15) No Time to Live | 1958 |
| 16) Expresso Jungle | 1959 |
| 17) Passport Into Fear | 1959 |
| 18) The Angry Night (Also published as: Fire Over India [1966]) | 1960 |
| 19) The Big Smear | 1962 |
| 20) The Reluctant Gunman | 1962 |
| 21) The Impostor (with Peter Chambers) | 1963 |
| 22) Treason Remembered | 1967 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) Without Warning | 1955 |
| 2) Cry from the Dark | 1956 |
| 3) Strike North | 1956 |
| 4) Scandal Street | 1963 |
| 5) The Big Steal | 1964 |
| 6) Treason by Truth | 1964 |
| 7) The Cellar Boys | 1965 |
| 8) Departure Deferred | 1965 |
| 9) Destination Dieppe (US Title: Traitor! [1967]) | 1965 |
| 10) The Inexpendable | 1965 |
| 11) No Place for Strangers | 1965 |
| 12) The Rape of Berlin (Also published as: The Girl, the City, and the Soldier [1968]) | 1965 |
| 13) Storm Over Rockall | 1965 |
| 14) Take Death for a Lover | 1965 |
| 15) Blood Trail (Also published as: Eye of the Storm [1972]) | 1966 |
| 16) The Dogs of War (Also published as: Night of the Wolf [1967]) | 1966 |
| 17) The Dead and the Damned | 1967 |
| 18) The Girl in Asses' Milk | 1967 |
| 19) The Guardians (US Title: The Dirty Game [1967]) | 1967 |
| 20) The Judas Diary | 1969 |
| 21) Quintain Strikes Back (Contains "Unfriendly Persusasion" and "No Place for Strangers") | 1969 |
| 22) The Treasure Hunters | 1970 |
| 23) The Charge Is Treason | 1973 |
| As 'William Arthur' | |
| 1) Murder with Variety (featuring Sexton Blake) | 1957 |
| As 'W.A. Ballinger' | |
| 'Sexton Blake' Novels | |
| 1) Epitaph to Treason | 1960 |
| 2) This Man Must Die! | 1960 |
| 3) The Television Murders | 1961 |
| 4) A Corpse for Christmas (with Wilfred McNeilly) | 1962 |
| 5) Murder in Camera | 1962 |
| 6) Savage Venture | 1962 |
| 7) Studio One Murder | 1962 |
| 8) The Last Tiger (with George Mann and Wilfred McNeilly) | 1963 |
| 9) I, the Hangman | 1965 |
| 10) Murderer at Large | 1965 |
| 11) The Witches of Notting Hill | 1965 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) Unfriendly Persuasion | 1964 |
| 2) Drums of the Dark Gods | 1966 |
| 3) The Exterminator | 1966 |
| 4) Rebellion (US Title: The Men That God Made [1969]) | 1966 |
| 5) Naked from a Well | 1967 |
| 6) The Green Grassy Slopes | 1969 |
| 7) Congo | 1970 |
| 8) The Carrion Eaters | 1971 |
| As 'Desmond Reid' | |
| 'Sexton Blake' Novels | |
| 1) The Snowman Cometh (with Wilfred McNeilly) | 1966 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) Beat on an Orange Drum (with Wilfred McNeilly) | 1965 |
| As 'Peter Saxon' | |
| 'Sexton Blake' Novels | |
| 1) The Voodoo Drum | 1948 |
| 2) Danger Ahead | 1956 |
| 3) Decoy for Murder | 1956 |
| 4) Flight Into Fear | 1956 |
| 5) Front Page Woman | 1956 |
| 6) Act of Violence | 1957 |
| 7) A Cry in the Night | 1957 |
| 8) The Last Days of Berlin | 1957 |
| 9) The Violent Hours | 1957 |
| 10) The Naked Blade | 1958 |
| 11) The Sea Tigers | 1958 |
| 12) The Violent Ones | 1959 |
| 13) Lovely – But Lethal! | 1961 |
| 14) Vengeance Is Ours! | 1965 |
| 15) This Spy Must Die | 1967 |
| 16) Woman of Saigon | 1968 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) The Darkest Night (with Wilfred McNeilly) | 1966 |
| 2) The Torturer (with Wilfred McNeilly) | 1967 |
| 3) Black Honey | 1968 |
| 4) Dark Ways to Death (with Wilfred McNeilly) | 1968 |
| 5) The Haunting of Alan Mais (with Wilfred McNeilly) | 1969 |
| 6) The Killing Bone | 1969 |
| 7) Vampire’s Moon | 1970 |
| As 'Richard Williams' | |
| 1) Hurricane Warning! | 1960 |