Norman Conquest Part I

Series characters have long been a staple of the crime/mystery/thriller genre. Today large publishers are very careful about keeping a well-selling character in print. Older series are typically brought back into print in a systematic way. The best example today is Penguin's new editions of Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret series - all 75 novels, most in new translations. In the early days of paperbacks this was not the case.

An example is Berkeley Gray's Norman Conquest series - 51 novels between 1938 and 1969. The early Canadian paperback imprint from Wm. Collins and Sons Canada, White Circle Pocket Library, published 17 of the first 24 between 1942 and 1952, at which time the WC imprint ended. They had been published between 1938 and 1951 by the parent company in the UK. In addition to skipping seven of the books the ones that were published are not in sequence. The list below has the original publish date and the WC number.

1	Mr. Mortimer Gets the Jitters	1938	P
2	Vultures Limited	1938	46
3	Miss Dynamite	1939	85
6	Conquest Takes All	1940	B4
7	Meet the Don	1940	344
9	Convict 1066	1940	291
11	Six Feet of Dynamite	1942	60
12	Blonde for Danger	1943	227
13	The Gay Desperado	1944	244
14	Cavalier Conquest	1944	267
16	Mr. Ball of Fire	1946	360
17	Killer Conquest	1947	383
19	The Spot Marked X	1948	465
20	Duel Murder	1948	442
21	Daredevil Conquest	1950	486
22	Seven Dawns to Death	1950	512
23	Operation Conquest	1951	527

White Circle P - 1942

White Circle 46 -1942

White Circle 85 - 1943

White Circle B4 - 1942

White Circle 344 - 1947