House Of Stratus: 587 books

A man with a prison lisp was overheard during lunch in the Savoy Hotel in London. He stated that The Toff (The Honourable Richard Rollison) was amongst those he would like to murder. No description is passed to The Toff, but he wonders if it was Charmion, who was released from Dartmoor prison two...

John Mannering, a retired jewel thief known as ‘The Baron’, owns an upmarket antique shop ‘Quinns’ in London’s Mayfair. He is asked to value a collection of jewellery and objets d’art belonging to the estate of Ezra Peek. What is mysterious, however, is a woman who is following him as...

Pure fantasy and magic combine in this delightful tale of a family of children trapped in a straight-laced adult world. Forming a secret society, collecting stardust and living in star caves, they endeavour to rescue their parents from a dreary, earthbound existence. This remarkable children’s novel was the inspiration for the musical Starlight Express.

Another gripping story featuring John Mannering (aka ‘The Baron’). A burglar is robbing a dealer’s safe, but is interrupted. The burglar pulls out a gun and fires. Bullets tear into a man’s chest. Some jewels fall as the gun is used. A girl screams. Next morning, John Mannering is contemplating...

Alan Parker cannot bring himself to tell his wife that he has lost his job. Each day he goes off to ‘work’, leaving her in both ignorance and trusting her little ambitions for them will be met. Other than playing out this particular deception, Alan is generally honest and intensely loyal, but...

The Honourable Richard Rollison (aka ‘The Toff’) is travelling on a train when the carriage is hit by bullets, and so starts a new adventure with many twists and turns. Behind the mystery is a new substitute for nylon, Silva-Sheen, which Bruce Drayton claims to have invented and the newspapers...

Professor Clayton leads a double life. He is happily married, but there is another woman and also a teenage son who learns that the person he calls ‘uncle’ is actually his father. Now, Clayton is being blackmailed, but is determined not to give in and approaches Inspector Roger West of Scotland...

Silence reigns; there is no noise that cannot be excluded. The daily roar from factories, aircraft, and explosions can all be insulated against. Humans can also be protected from the ravages of radioactive contamination. But there is a price; the loss of man's freedom. This is the dilemma that Dr. Palfrey must solve. Can he do it? The reader is the judge!

Cowboy Thomas E. Loman arrived in London, but was not as he should be. He had been drugged on both stages of his flight from Arizona to London, via New York. Now in the Airport hospital, all he knows is that The Honourable Richard Rollison (alias ‘The Toff’) has requested he travel to England,...

John Mannering, the former jewel thief known as ‘The Baron’ and now a respectable antique dealer in London’s Mayfair, was selling a fabulous diamond ring known as the ‘Red Eye of Love’. The ring, however, was not wanted by its intended recipient, who only reluctantly placed it on her finger....

The Nazis have stored radium somewhere in Europe. Dr. Palfrey must find it, but there is a big business syndicate also involved who aim to bring Europe to an economic standstill and ultimate starvation. They conceal themselves with curious black masks, but other clues as to their identities emerge and their plans are well advanced. Will Palfrey be in time?

Roger West of Scotland Yard has a boss who simply does not like his methods. He must therefore attempt to be more conventional when faced with a case involving an attractive girl who is brutally killed. She had a bad reputation, but that just makes the task all the harder. The chief suspect proves...

The Honourable Richard Rollison (aka ‘The Toff’) receives a telephone call from a seemingly charming and very enticing girl late at night, and as a result sets off to rescue her. He takes her back to his apartment where, to his great surprise he meets an identical person. The following morning...

A suspected informer is found dead in a collapsed section of an escape tunnel being dug in a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy. So as to protect the tunnel the prisoners decide to move the body to another that has already been abandoned. But then the fascist captors declare the death to be murder and...