Dennis Wheatley Books in Order

Avril Bamborough is swept into an adventure where hidden power promises far more than it should. Curiosity turns risky as rival interests close in and the journey heads into dangerous, little-known territory.

When Rex Van Ryn vanishes into Soviet Russia after chasing lost treasure, the Duke de Richleau and his friends mount a reckless rescue. It is a fast, snowy chase through prisons, secret police, and dangerous borderlands.

In a near-future Britain sliding into collapse, Kenyon Fane and Anne Croome are caught in riots, hunger, and revolutionary violence. This is Wheatley at his most political and apocalyptic.

Simon Aron has fallen in with a Satanic circle, and the Duke de Richleau races to pull him back. The rescue becomes a terrifying struggle against Mocata, ritual magic, and the pull of evil.

An expedition into an isolated valley promises wealth, mystery, and escape from the ordinary world. Instead, Wheatley turns it into a tense adventure of greed, survival, and dangerous discoveries.

Forced out of the army, Swithin Destime arrives in Istanbul to investigate rumors of an uprising. Soon he is alone in a city of spies, hunted by a sinister chief of secret police.

A beautiful woman draws Gregory Sallust into a smuggling ring that is anything but small-time. Night flights, covert landings, and double-dealing turn this into a brisk prewar spy thriller.

A pleasure trip off Miami turns deadly when murder breaks the holiday mood. This is a neat old-school puzzle, full of suspicious passengers, changing stories, and tropical atmosphere.

A bold expedition sets out to prove Atlantis was real and still reachable beneath the Atlantic. Wheatley mixes ocean adventure, lost civilization fantasy, and plenty of peril on the way down.

Wheatley surveys the hidden side of modern conflict, where deception, intelligence, and political maneuvering matter as much as open battle. It is a readable look at war behind the headlines.

This interactive crime puzzle lays out statements, clues, and documents for readers to examine themselves. The fun lies in weighing the evidence and naming the killer before the solution is revealed.

Amid the Spanish Civil War, the Duke de Richleau hunts a hidden fortune while a glamorous double agent plays both sides. Gold, divided loyalties, and personal rivalries drive the chase.

A shocking outbreak of violence sits at the center of this hard-driving thriller. Wheatley builds the tension around fear, divided loyalties, and the brutal consequences of revenge.

After a violent storm, a stranded group drifts into waters far stranger than the open Atlantic. What begins as a survival story becomes a weird and dangerous lost-world adventure.

Another classic Wheatley crime challenge, this book invites readers to study witness statements, plans, and exhibits and solve the mystery for themselves. It is part novel, part case file.

A comet may be heading for Earth, and a wealthy circle quietly prepares to outlast the end of the world. Wheatley combines social panic, survival planning, and apocalyptic spectacle.

Seeking revenge on the men who ruined his diplomatic career, Julian Day stumbles into a hunt for treasure buried for two thousand years. It is part adventure tale, part romantic intrigue.

Gregory Sallust moves through early wartime Europe on forged papers and borrowed identities. His mission takes him from Germany into a wider struggle where failure would be fatal.

Gregory Sallust is drawn into intrigue involving a mysterious baroness, shifting loyalties, and deadly political stakes. The novel mixes espionage, romance, and criminal danger at a fast clip.

In 1940 Gregory Sallust slips into Nazi Germany under a series of disguises to contact plotters who want Hitler overthrown. It is tense, glamorous, and packed with danger.

Three curious outsiders become entangled in a murder case among the wealthy and well-connected. The pleasure here is in the questioning, the atmosphere, and the slow tightening of suspicion.

The Duke de Richleau faces a case where modern ambition and black magic begin to overlap. What starts as a puzzle turns into a fight for one man's body, mind, and soul.

In 1940 Julian Day finds himself in Alexandria, under suspicion from both the British and the Axis powers. His search for Daphnis carries him into Greece and deep into enemy-held territory.

This collection gathers tales of danger and glamour around the Mediterranean, where bright settings hide trouble just beneath the surface. Wheatley keeps the mood light, brisk, and uneasy.

Gregory Sallust heads into the thick of wartime Europe, where sabotage, secret loyalties, and sudden violence shape every move. It is a taut mission story with danger closing in from all sides.

While the wider world is consumed by war, Philip Vaudell is swept into an adventure far removed from the ordinary front lines. Wheatley mixes isolation, discovery, and survival in a strange setting.

With war about to explode, the Duke de Richleau and his friends are caught up in conspiracy in Warsaw and Bucharest. Their real target is the fuel supply feeding Hitler's war machine.

Gregory Sallust enters the Soviet Union just as it joins the war against Germany, with his old enemy Grabber close behind. The chase carries him on to Switzerland and a sinister German castle.

Set in 1783, this opening Roger Brook novel sends its young hero into a world of ambition, danger, and political intrigue. It is the start of Wheatley's big historical adventure cycle.

A badly injured young airman is sent to a remote old house to recover, but the place seems full of whispers, dread, and invisible threats. This is one of Wheatley's most intimate and unsettling books.

Roger Brook moves through late eighteenth-century London and Europe as scandal, crime, and politics crowd in on him. The series widens here into a fuller swashbuckling historical saga.

Roger Brook is caught in the early upheavals of the French Revolution, where public excitement is turning toward violence. History and personal danger rise together throughout the novel.

In spring 1914 the Duke de Richleau is drawn from a masked ball into secret societies, espionage, and the opening moves of the First World War. Adventure and romance run side by side.

Roger Brook fights to survive the terror years of revolutionary France, when prisons, plots, and shifting loyalties can destroy anyone. It is one of the darkest books in the series.

An ominous sign in the sky ushers Kem Lincoln into a story of fear, speculation, and cosmic menace. Wheatley gives this science fiction thriller an eerie, end-of-an-era mood.

A man trapped behind the Iron Curtain finds that memory, identity, and survival have all become unreliable. Wheatley turns the Cold War setting into a tense chase thriller.

Molly Fountain becomes involved in the terrifying case of a young girl marked out for a Satanic purpose. The story builds from uneasy mystery to full occult confrontation.

A Gregory Sallust mission leads toward a remote island that feels cut off from ordinary history. Espionage, old loyalties, and a touch of the uncanny give this thriller an unusual flavor.

Roger Brook moves through France and Italy while private passions and great events reshape Europe. Josephine's hidden life becomes part of a larger web of political and personal intrigue.

Gifford Hillary's fascination with ancient beliefs and the human soul leads him into experiments that should have been left alone. Wheatley blends occult dread with speculative science.

This prehistory of the Duke de Richleau shows him as a younger man caught in a royalist conspiracy in France. Prison, disguise, and dangerous politics shape the hero he will become.

On a secret mission to wartime Budapest, Gregory Sallust finds brief glamour, then mounting fear. His involvement with a powerful man's mistress makes escape as dangerous as the mission itself.

Wheatley writes about war the way he wrote thrillers, with an eye for bluff, planning, and misdirection. This nonfiction volume explores how deception can shape major events.

Part memoir and part collection of extraordinary true episodes, this book shows the real-life experiences that fed Wheatley's imagination. It is full of crisp anecdote and behind-the-scenes detail.

Roger Brook heads into Italy as Napoleon's advance threatens Venice and everyone bound to it. Politics, betrayal, and passion drive the story as the old order gives way.

Trying to uncover the truth about her husband's death, a determined woman enters a Satanic circle and risks being trapped by it. Wheatley keeps the tension grounded in secrecy, ritual, and fear.

Anecdotal and reflective, this book gathers memories, opinions, and personal sketches in Wheatley's plainspoken style. It offers a more relaxed side of the man behind the thrillers.

The Duke de Richleau returns to Spain for a mission shadowed by old grudges and fresh dangers. Personal revenge and political conflict make this a tense late-series adventure.

Set against wartime confusion in Greece, this adventure mixes covert work, divided loyalties, and hard escapes. The setting gives Wheatley plenty of room for danger and sudden reversals.

Roger Brook is drawn eastward into diplomacy, adventure, and romance as the Napoleonic age spreads into the Ottoman world. The historical setting gives the book a wider, more exotic sweep.

A baffling death opens into a crime story of blurred identities, hidden motives, and carefully planted deception. This late Wheatley novel is tighter and more forensic than many of his adventures.

Revolution, conspiracy, and pursuit drive this fast-moving adventure. Wheatley builds the tension around a dangerous symbol that can inspire loyalty just as easily as it can invite disaster.

Wheatley's second horror anthology gathers eerie tales chosen for atmosphere, menace, and supernatural bite. It is a good snapshot of the kind of ghostly fiction he loved to champion.

Gregory Sallust faces Nazis, secret weapons, and an occult enemy whose influence seems to reach beyond ordinary espionage. It is a war thriller that edges fully into black magic.

An inheritance in the Caribbean brings the Duke de Richleau and his old friends into another fight with occult evil. Money, family claims, and supernatural danger make a treacherous combination.

This lively collection ranges from history to mystery to the supernatural. Wheatley moves easily between swashbuckling adventure, true-life anecdote, and eerie material.

This volume gathers more tales of the uncanny, the sinister, and the outright macabre. It is an editor's showcase for Wheatley's taste in traditional horror storytelling.

A handpicked horror anthology built for quick chills, dark atmosphere, and memorable shocks. Wheatley presents stories that favor suspense as much as outright terror.

Roger Brook enters another stretch of Napoleonic Europe where desire, politics, and reckless privilege collide. The title hints at the trouble that follows him through court and campaign.

Wheatley's biography of Charles II is brisk, readable, and drawn to character as much as politics. It follows the king's long survival, restoration, and complicated private life.

Lucky Adam Gordon is swept into a historical adventure where warfare, belief, and dark rites become entangled. It is one of Wheatley's later books, with a stronger occult edge than most.

Bright weather and holiday ease cannot hide the murder at the center of this mystery. Wheatley pairs resort atmosphere with a tidy puzzle and a tightening circle of suspects.

In Rio, Gregory Sallust befriends a young rajah seeking treasure from a sunken ship. Murder, blackmail, kidnapping, and a touch of magic quickly follow.

Roger Brook moves through Napoleonic Europe where disguise, seduction, and political plotting conceal deadly intent. It is a historical thriller built on false faces and risky loyalties.

Here Wheatley sets out his views on Satanism, black magic, and the occult traditions that fascinated him. It is part survey, part warning, and a useful companion to his fiction.

Roger Brook's world of war and espionage collides with a personal crisis when Lady Mary Ware is put in grave danger. The book balances rescue adventure with the larger sweep of the wars.

A puzzling bank theft and a fresh occult threat pull the Duke de Richleau and his friends into danger in South America. The series ends with crime, black magic, and loyal friendship still intact.

A strange young woman stands at the center of this suspenseful mystery, and nothing about her case stays ordinary for long. Wheatley slowly builds the sense that darker forces may be involved.

Roger Brook enters Ireland during the closing years of the Napoleonic wars and finds politics tangled with superstition and occult fear. It gives the series one of its darkest turns.

Roger Brook rides into the final crisis of the Napoleonic era, where every choice feels improvised and risky. It is a fittingly urgent close to his long historical career.

In this nonfiction work Wheatley looks at witchcraft beliefs, Satanism, and the fears that have gathered around them over centuries. He writes for curious general readers, not specialists.

This first volume of uncanny tales gathers ghostly, eerie, and suspenseful stories chosen for atmosphere and narrative punch. It reflects Wheatley's long love of classic supernatural fiction.

The second volume continues the run of strange and supernatural stories, mixing ghostly unease with sharper shocks. It is a companion collection for readers who like traditional chills.

In the first volume of his autobiography, Wheatley writes about family, school, and the world that shaped him before the First World War. It is direct, candid, and full of period detail.

The closing autobiography follows Wheatley through business failure, literary success, war work, and old age. It is the fullest account of how his life and books grew together.

This second memoir volume covers Wheatley's war service, injury, and the difficult shift back into civilian life. It is one of his most personal and historically grounded books.

Drawing on his own wartime work, Wheatley explains how Allied deception was planned and carried out. It offers a readable insider's view of strategy, bluff, and secrecy.