John (Francis) Russell Fearn (1908-1960) was a prolific English writer with numerous pseudonyms. He was one of the first British authors to write for the American pulps. He is best known for his science fiction but wrote also detective novels, westerns and adventure stories. The bibliography below contains only the crime novels listed by Allen J. Hubin in his Crime Fiction IV, A Comprehensive Bibliography 1749-2000 and those listed in Robert Adey's Locked Room Murders (1991, revised edition). Further information and bibliographies can be found at Wikipedia and Fantastic Fiction.
Bibliography
as John Russell Fearn
Murder’s a Must (1949)
Merridew Marches On (1951)
as Thornton Ayre
The Crimson Rambler (1947)
as Hugo Blayn
*features series character Dr. Hiram Carruthers
†features series characters Inspector Garth and Sgt. Whittaker
Except for One Thing (1947)
The Five Matchboxes (1948)†
Flashpoint (1950)*
What Happened to Hammond? (1951)*†
The Silvered Cage (1955)*†
as Conway Carr
The Rattenbury Mystery (1955)
as Gina Dewall
The Yellow Yasmak (1955)
as Volsted Gridban
Both feature series character Adam Quirke
The Master Must Die (1953)
The Lonely Astronomer (1954)
as Preston James
The Secret of the Vase (1955)
as Nat Karta
features Inspector Garth, Sgt Whittaker and Dr. Hiram Carruthers
Vision Sinister (1954)
as Edwin La Farge
Crime Passionel (1952)
as John Russell
Account Settled (1949)
as John Slate
all but Framed in Guilt feature series character Maria Black, M.A.
Black Maria, MA (1944)
Maria Marches On (1945)
One Remained Seated (1946)
Thy Arm Alone (1947)
Framed in Guilt (1948)
Death in Silhouette (1950)
as Elton Westward
The Lonely Road Murder (1954)
Murder Afoot (1954)
No Answer (1954)
Fourflusher (1955)
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