The Sexton Blake stories
Edwy Searles Brooks contributed Sexton Blake stories to the following:
The Sexton Blake Library
Union Jack
Detective Weekly
Nugget Weekly
BBC Radio
Unpublished Manuscripts
The Sexton Blake Library
Union Jack
Detective Weekly
Nugget Weekly
BBC Radio
Unpublished Manuscripts
SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY
Amalgamated Press Ltd
Amalgamated Press Ltd
1st Series
Stories by L H Brooks (E S Brooks’ brother) are now believed to have been written almost wholly by E S Brooks and are included in this listing.
Stories by L H Brooks (E S Brooks’ brother) are now believed to have been written almost wholly by E S Brooks and are included in this listing.
| Issue Number | Date | Name | Notes |
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| 5 | January 1916 | ’Midst Balkan Perils | Official records show ESB but theme and style typical of William Murray Graydon |
| 6 | February 1916 | The Red Spider | Rewritten as “The Black Skull Murders” by Carleton Ross |
| 12 | July 1916 | The Peril of the Prince | |
| 13 | August 1916 | The Case of the Twin Detectives | Crane story R/P from Dreadnought 84-98 |
| 33 | June 1917 | The House with the Double Moat | |
| 117 | March 1920 | The Avenging Seven | L H Brooks |
| 131 | June 1920 | The Affair of the Blackfriars Financier | L H Brooks |
| 167 | March 1921 | The Gnat | L H Brooks |
| 244 | August 1922 | The House of Ghosts | L H Brooks |
| 250 | September 1922 | The Fingerprints of Fate | L H Brooks |
| 265 | December 1922 | On the Bed of the Ocean | |
| 269 | January 1923 | The Mystery of Glyn Castle | L H Brooks R/P in “The Sexton Blake Casebook” Ed. Higgs 1987 |
| 274 | February 1923 | The Green Eyes | |
| 282 | April 1923 | The House at Waterloo | |
| 286 | May 1923 | The Secret of Thurlestone Towers | L H Brooks |
| 324 | March 1924 | The Mystery of Rodney’s Cove | |
| 333 | May 1924 | The Human Bloodhound | |
| 336 | June 1924 | The Boarding House Mystery | |
| 338 | June 1924 | The Brixham Manor Mystery | |
| 362 | December 1924 | The Case of the Sleeping Partner | Waldo story |
| 374 | March 1925 | In the Night Watch | Waldo story |
2nd Series
| 33 | 01/02/2026 | The Impersonators | |
| 43 | 01/04/2026 | The Riddle of the Lascar’s Head | L H Brooks |
| 406 | November 1933 | The Black Dagger | R/P from DW 257. |
| 559 | January 1937 | The Midnight Lorry Crime | Rewritten as “Blonde For Danger”(1943) by Berkeley Gray |
| 641 | October 1938 | The Three Frightened Men | As Berkeley Gray. Appearance of Inspector Bill Williams. Rewritten as DW 310-321 “Enter Sexton Blake” by Berkeley Gray (1939) and as “Mad Hatter’s Rock” by Victor Gunn (1942) |
| 683 | August 1939 | The Impersonators | Waldo story. R/P from SBL 2/33 Waldo story. R/P from SBL 1/347 |
| 744 | May 1941 | In the Night Watch | Waldo story. R/P from SBL 1/347 |
3rd Series
| 6 | August 1941 | The Riddle of the Body on the Road | Rewritten as “Death’s Doorway”(1941) by Victor Gunn |
UNION JACK
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2nd Series
| Issue Number | Date | Name | Notes |
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| 431 | 13/01/1912 | The Motor Bus Mystery | |
| 446 | 27/04/1912 | The Coffee Stall Mystery | |
| 720 | 28/07/1917 | ’Twixt Sunset and Dawn | |
| 726 | 08/09/1917 | The Riddle of Yew Hollow | |
| 729 | 29/09/1917 | The Valley of Crags | |
| 733 | 27/10/1917 | The Secret of the Third Panel | |
| 737 | 24/11/1917 | The Pearl of the Trahernes | Rewritten as “Death on Shivering Sand”(1946) by Victor Gunn |
| 750 | 23/02/1918 | Rescued by Aeroplane | |
| 768 | 29/06/1918 | The Mount Stonham Murder Mystery; or The Case of the Mysterious Hunchback | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 771 | 20/07/1918 | The Mystic Cypher | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 774 | 10/08/1918 | The Dual Detective | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 777 | 31/08/1918 | The Flashlight Clue | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 781 | 28/09/1918 | The Case of the American Soldier | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 784 | 19/10/1918 | The Crooks of Rapid Hollow | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 786 | 02/11/1918 | The Terror of Travis Wold | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 788 | 16/11/1918 | The Studded Footprints | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 793 | 21/12/1918 | The Case of the Hollow Dagger | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 794 | 28/12/1918 | Waldo the Wonder Man | First Waldo story. Includes Nelson Lee |
| 796 | 11/01/1919 | Hoodwinked | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 798 | 25/01/1919 | The Clue of the Five Hairs | |
| 799 | 01/02/1919 | The Clue of the Frozen Knife | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 800 | 08/02/2019 | The Affair of the Bronze Monkey | |
| 801 | 15/02/1919 | The Shanghaied Detective | Waldo story |
| 805 | 15/03/1919 | The Case of the Stacey Rubies | Waldo story. Includes Nelson Lee |
| 810 | 19/04/1919 | The Clue of the Second Bullet | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 813 | 10/05/1919 | The Riddle of Quintin Grange | |
| 817 | 07/06/1919 | The Great Spiritualism Case | Waldo story. Includes Nelson Lee |
| 831 | 13/09/1919 | The Valley of the Missing Man | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 859 | 27/03/1920 | The Mystery of the Gnarled Oak | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 862 | 17/04/1920 | Tinker’s Big Case | |
| 865 | 08/05/1920 | The Clue of the Green Stain | Waldo story |
| 870 | 12/06/1920 | The Mystery of the 9.12 Express | Includes Nelson Lee |
| 874 | 10/07/1920 | The Chessington Towers Mystery | |
| 888 | 16/10/1920 | The Human Link | Waldo story |
| 892 | 13/11/1920 | The Mystery of the Chinese Antique | Waldo story |
| 902 | 22/01/1921 | The Soho Cafe Mystery | Leonard H Brooks |
| 907 | 26/02/1921 | The Menace of Rylands Moor | Leonard H Brooks |
| 911 | 26/03/1921 | The Green Eye | Leonard H Brooks |
| 917 | 07/05/1921 | The Wager of Death | R/P as Dixon Hawke Lib 301, NLL 3/10 and “Nice Day for a Murder”(1945) by Victor Gunn |
| 921 | 04/06/1921 | The Strange Case of the Edgware Recluse | |
| 930 | 06/08/1921 | Dr Braxland’s Experiment | Leonard H Brooks |
| 939 | 08/10/1921 | The Clue of the Yellow Dust | Leonard H Brooks |
| 942 | 29/10/1921 | In the Grip of Waldo | Waldo story |
| 943 | 05/11/1921 | The Marsh Farm Mystery | |
| 948 | 10/10/1921 | The Wonder Man’s Challenge | Waldo story |
| 962 | 08/03/1922 | Rupert Waldo - Stuntist | Waldo story |
| 999 | 02/12/1922 | The Burlington Collar Mystery | Leonard H Brooks |
| 1054 | 22/12/1923 | The Flaming Spectre of Cloome | Waldo story |
| 1077 | 31/05/1924 | The Electric Man | Waldo story |
| 1104 | 06/12/1924 | The Leopard of Droone | Waldo story. R/P as DW 378 |
| 1118 | 14/03/1925 | The Affair of the Roman Relics | Waldo story. Rewritten as part of “Killer Conquest”(1947) by Berkeley Gray |
| 1131 | 13/06/1926 | The Pauper of Pengarth Castle | Waldo story Nos 1131-1132 Rewritten as “Cavalier Conquest”(1944) by Berkeley Gray |
| 1132 | 20/06/1926 | The Curse of Pengarth Castle | Waldo story |
| 1135 | 11/07/1926 | The Great Stadium Sensation | Waldo story |
| 1219 | 26/02/1927 | Waldo’s Wonder Stunt | Waldo story. R/P as DW 330 |
| 1220 | 05/03/1927 | The Affair of the Professional Avenger | Waldo story. R/P as DW 332. |
| 1221 | 12/03/1927 | The Case of the Second Blackmailer | Waldo story. R/P as DW 336 |
| 1222 | 19/03/1927 | The Lightning Flash Mystery | Waldo story. R/P as DW 340. UJ’s 1220,1221 & 1222 rewritten as “The Gay Desperado”(1944) by Berkeley Gray |
| 1266 | 21/01/1928 | The Affair of the Bronze Mirror | Waldo story |
| 1267 | 28/01/1928 | The Diamonds of Devil Pool | Waldo story |
| 1268 | 04/02/1928 | Jungle Justice | Waldo story |
| 1320 | 02/02/1929 | The Case of the Shrivelled Man | Waldo story |
| 1322 | 16/02/1929 | The Captive of the Crag | Waldo story |
| 1354 | 28/09/1929 | The Case of the Three Black Cats | Waldo story, introduces Eustace Cavendish Rewritten as part of “Three Dates With Death”(1947) by Victor Gunn |
| 1357 | 19/10/1929 | Terror By Night | Waldo and Cavendish. Rewritten as Dixon Hawke Lib 366 & “The Strange Case of the Antlered Man” by E S Brooks (1935) |
| 1358 | 26/10/1929 | The Death Snare | Waldo story |
| 1364 | 07/10/1929 | The Frozen Man Mystery | Cavendish story. Rewritten as Dixon Hawke Lib 380 and “The Dead Man Laughs”(1944) by Victor Gunn |
| 1384 | 26/04/1930 | Quivering Steel | Cavendish story. Rewritten as part of “Three Dates With Death”(1947) by Victor Gunn |
| 1425 | 07/02/1931 | The Red Hot Racketeers | Waldo and Cavendish. |
| 1433 | 04/05/1931 | Sexton Blake on the Spot | Waldo and Cavendish. UJ 1425 & 1433 rewritten as “Ironsides on the Spot” (1948) by Victor Gunn |
| 1490 | 07/05/1932 | The Mystery of Blind Luke | Proud Tram series. Waldo story |
| 1499 | 09/07/1932 | Once a Crook | Waldo story |
| 1501 | 23/07/1932 | Waldo’s Way Out | Waldo story |
| 1507 | 03/09/1932 | Red Sand | Waldo and Cavendish |
| 1516 | 05/11/1932 | Sexton Blake’s Understudy | Waldo story |
| 1528 | 28/01/1933 | The House of Light | Waldo story. Rewritten as part of “Alias Norman Conquest”(1945) by Berkeley Gray |
| 1530 | 11/02/1934 | Village Vengeance | Waldo story. Rewritten as part of “The Conquest Touch”(1948) by Berkeley Gray |
DETECTIVE WEEKLY
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(Note that 146 to 252 do not feature Sexton Blake himself)
Amalgamated Press Ltd
(Note that 146 to 252 do not feature Sexton Blake himself)
| Issue Number | Date | Name | Notes |
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| 11 | 06 May 1933 | The Hollow Giant | Waldo story |
| 19 | 01 July 1933 | The Tree Top Murder | Waldo story. Rewritten as part of “Duel Murder”(1949) by Berkeley Gray |
| 28 | 02 September 1933 | The Hired Avenger | Waldo story. Rewritten as part of “Duel Murder”(1949) by Berkeley Gray |
| 33 | 07 October 1933 | The Pool of Escape | Cavendish story. Rewritten as part of “Ironsides Sees Red” (1943) by Victor Gunn |
| 48 | 20 January 1934 | From Information Received | Waldo story. Rewritten as part of “The Conquest Touch”(1948) by Berkeley Gray |
| 54 | 03 March 1934 | The Riddle of the Five Strange Guests | Waldo story |
| 66 | 26 May 1934 | The Mystery of the Miser Landlord | |
| 93 | 01 December 1934 | A Secret from the Thames | Rewritten as part of "Road to Murder" (1949) by Victor Gunn |
| 99 | 12 January 1935 | Murder on the Midnight Coach | Rewritten as part of “Three Dates With Death”(1947) by Victor Gunn |
| 110 | 30 March 1935 | The Girl with the Frightened Eyes | Rewritten as part of “Ironsides Smells Blood”(1946) by Victor Gunn |
| 128 | 03 August 1935 | The Fire Tongs Murder Mystery | Waldo story |
| 145 | 30 November 1935 | The Mystery of the Man in Mail | Waldo story. Rewritten as part of “The Spot Marked X”(1948) by Berkeley Gray |
| 179 | 25 July 1936 | Cyclists’ Rest | “Grouser” Beeke & Cavendish story. Rewritten as part of “Ironsides Sees Red”(1943) by Victor Gunn |
| 201 | 26 December 1936 | Ten Minute Trap | Waldo story. Rewritten as part of “The Spot Marked X”(1948) by Berkeley Gray |
| 210 | 27 February 1937 | The Mystery of the Wailing Pool | “Grouser” Beeke & Cavendish story. Rewritten as part of “Ironsides Sees Red”(1943) by Victor Gunn |
| 235 | 21 August 1937 | The Holiday Camp Mystery | “Grouser” Beeke & Cavendish story. Rewritten as part of “Ironsides Sees Red”(1943) by Victor Gunn |
| 252 | 18 December 1937 | The Fantastic Affair at Cloon Castle | “Grouser” Beeke & Cavendish story. Rewritten as part of “Ironsides Sees Red”(1943) by Victor Gunn |
| 257 | 22 January 1938 | The Black Dagger Crimes | R/P from SBL 2/406. Rewritten as “Ironsides’ Lone Hand” by Victor Gunn |
| 310 - 321 | 28 January 1939 | Enter Sexton Blake | Berkeley Gray. From the radio serial. Rewritten as “Mad Hatter’s Rock” (1942) by Victor Gunn |
| 330 | 17 June 1939 | Waldo the Wonder Man | Waldo story. Reprinted from Union Jack 2/1219 |
| 332 | 01 July 1939 | The Professional Avenger | Waldo story. Reprinted from Union Jack 2/1220 |
| 336 | 29 July 1939 | Waldo’s Wonder Stunt | Waldo story. Reprinted from Union Jack 2/1221 |
| 340 | 26 August 1939 | Simon Kern Pays in Full | Waldo story. Reprinted from Union Jack 2/1222 |
| 378 | 18 May 1940 | The Leopard of Droone | Waldo story. Reprinted from Union Jack 2/1104 |
NUGGET WEEKLY
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RADIO
B.B.C Radio
Serial “Enter Sexton Blake”
Based on the serial “Enter Sexton Blake” by Berkeley Gray which appeared concurrently in Detective Weekly 310-321 (28-Jan-39 to 15-Apr-39). The serial was rewritten from SBL 2/641 (Oct-38) “The Three Frightened Men” and was rewritten as “Mad Hatter’s Rock” by Victor Gunn (1942).
Dates of performance: 26th January 1939 to 13th April 1939. Broadcast on the Regional programme at 3.30 and on the National programme at 7.30 weekly as part of the programme “Lucky Dip”.
Adaptation was by Ernest Dudley (the Armchair Detective).
Cast: Sexton Blake - George Curzon
Tinker - Brian Lawrence
Other parts - Maurice Denham, Bertram Dench, Julian Summers, and Jill Manners
There were twelve episodes as follows:
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Episode 1: |
The Quitter |
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Episode 2: |
The Clue in Wax |
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Episode 3: |
Mr Brant Gets A Shock |
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Episode 4: |
Count Otto Strikes |
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Episode 5: |
The Telephone Tappers |
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Episode 6: |
The Last Laugh |
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Episode 7: |
Sexton Blake is Warned |
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Episode 8: |
The Secret of Rock Island |
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Episode 9: |
The Harbour Lights |
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Episode 10: |
Count Otto Is Cornered |
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Episode 11: |
The Iron Boot |
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Episode 12: |
Fight to a Finish |
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UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT
1930 period Regan's Rum Racket (Sexton Blake Story)
1930 period Regan's Rum Racket (Sexton Blake Story)