Mark Hodder Books in Order

In an altered 1861 London, Richard Burton and poet Algernon Swinburne investigate attacks by Spring Heeled Jack and marauding werewolves. Their inquiries expose rival movements reshaping the empire and suggest that their world's history has gone wrong.

An abandoned brass automaton draws Burton and Swinburne into the theft of mysterious black diamonds. Pursuing clues through haunted houses and secretive institutions, they confront a conspiracy capable of destabilizing the British Empire and its altered timeline.

Priest Aiden Fleischer and gifted Clarissa Stark arrive on an alien planet whose inhabitants recreate London from her memories. Their apparent refuge becomes dangerous when another sun rises, bringing creatures that challenge Aiden's understanding of good and evil.

With history veering toward global war, Burton and Swinburne undertake an expedition through a distorted chain of cause and effect. Their quest connects Africa's Mountains of the Moon with London's past and the time-altering menace of Spring Heeled Jack.

Baker Street investigator Macallister Fogg and his practical secretary Emma Boswell encounter an ancient vampire. Fogg's enthusiasm for inventions and experiments competes with the demands of detection as the pair confront a threat far older than themselves.

Eccentric consulting detective Macallister Fogg becomes entangled with a criminal ancestor, leaving secretary Emma Boswell to rescue him. Their third adventure brings an unusual personal threat into a partnership already strained by Fogg's devotion to mechanical and chemical experiments.

Macallister Fogg takes his horseless wagon to Battersea to deliver an anti-gravity discovery, accompanied by secretary Emma Boswell. Egyptian burial masks and a stranger with a mummy divert their journey into a mystery Boswell cannot ignore.

A dead mystic's guidance has helped shape a peaceful alternate British Empire, but now he refuses to communicate. As prominent scientists and engineers disappear, newly knighted Richard Burton investigates a crisis threatening a major diplomatic alliance.

A scientific experiment brings red snow and Spring Heeled Jack to London, where the apparition hunts Burton. Disturbing visions of other realities push Burton and his companions toward a journey into a future ruled by a despotic intelligence.

Criminal trio the Three Musketeers attempts to steal an artifact from a hidden vault beneath Gibraltar, drawing Sexton Blake into an elaborate caper. The volume also includes G. H. Teed's earlier story introducing these deceptively foolish-looking crooks.

Knowledge brought back from the future falls into the hands of Britain's ruling elite. As technological power enables persecution and entrenched privilege, Burton and Swinburne become hunted rebels seeking to overthrow an apparently indestructible ruler.

Six new stories revisit Burton, Swinburne, and their companions through strange cases, ghostly encounters, and fantastic dreams. Essays on steampunk and the creation of their world accompany fragments of screenplays, extending the alternate history beyond the main novels.

Jacob Jacobus is dead and deeply annoyed by his predicament. This dark short story follows his frustration with an existence he did not choose and the question of what a man can do when death offers no satisfactory escape.

An asylum inmate insists that his confiscated hat is essential to his escape. Forced to appease his attendants, he struggles to recover it while his apparently disordered explanations reveal how urgently he believes his freedom depends on its return.

An elderly Richard Burton loses the manuscript recording his life’s achievements and fears it cannot be recovered. Algernon Swinburne turns to Sherlock Holmes, bringing the detective into a case where a stolen chapter threatens Burton’s final legacy.

Accused of plagiarism, a copywriter becomes consumed by revenge and violent fantasies centered on an abattoir. His obsession draws him toward a sinister transformation, leaving the boundaries between imagined retribution and demonic influence increasingly uncertain.

In a ruined London, William Cornish struggles to sustain himself and his wife Jessica as their memories fade. A compulsive journey toward Battersea Power Station brings him into contact with a mysterious boy whose presence connects distant times.

Architectural historian William Grub investigates Hufferton Hall, once celebrated for lavish gatherings and mechanical marvels but now inexplicably forgotten. Its vanished history and occultist owner draw him into secrets he may regret uncovering, alongside another strange tale.

Burton, Swinburne, and their companions return in stories set within a deteriorating alternate history, resolving lingering mysteries and revisiting dreams of dragons. Essays and fragments accompany the fiction, revealing further connections across Hodder’s imagined world.

In the 1920s, the albino criminal Zenith navigates theft, double dealing, and a family heritage he thought he had escaped. An abandoned past returns to complicate his schemes, drawing him into dangers rooted in his own bloodline.

Burton and Swinburne continue their struggle against the Black Pentagram, a criminal alliance of sorcerers. In their altered 1862, a catastrophic Sheffield flood arrives ahead of its historical date, concealing a deliberate scheme behind the disaster.

Burton and Swinburne travel to Paris during a plague that drives its victims into violence. With a daring raid on the Louvre being planned, they face another scheme by the Black Pentagram's criminal sorcerers amid the city's turmoil.

Settled in an alternate 1862, Burton and Swinburne investigate the Black Pentagram, a sinister organization using magic against the British Empire. Their pursuit of an identified sorcerer turns puzzling when their quarry appears to disappear without a trace.

Three classic stories follow detective Sexton Blake through First World War Europe. With allies at his side, he investigates German naval secrets, confronts spies and faces dangers involving airships, moving trains and firing squads in wartime investigations.

This collection gathers three adventures pitting Sexton Blake against exceptionally resourceful criminals. From London streets to Parisian catacombs, he pursues bank robbers, impostors and kidnappers whose schemes demand both deductive skill and a willingness to face physical danger.

Three collected adventures spotlight Sexton Blake's resourceful companions, from a royal spy protecting crown jewels to investigators pursuing a mysterious vehicle. Journeys across Europe, the English countryside and Australia bring reporters, adventurers and dangerous adversaries into their cases.

During the Second World War, Sexton Blake and Tinker investigate a false spy accusation and pursue its mastermind into enemy territory. Collected cases also confront them with a home-front murder whose prime suspect cannot remember his own actions.

These collected 1960s adventures send Sexton Blake into cases involving alien encounters, a secret volcanic base, village murders and revived prehistoric creatures. Criminal ingenuity and shifting loyalties complicate investigations in a world increasingly shaped by unusual scientific possibilities.

Two men descend in a bathysphere, but only one returns, stabbed despite the sealed vessel. Sexton Blake investigates the impossible crime aboard a Caribbean research ship, while a new prequel accompanies the restored and expanded mystery.