ref sheet for Hammond Innes

[Feliks, Moderator]

Quick rundown of Hammond Innes

The Doppelganger (1937)
...no info available

Air Disaster (1937)
...sabotage at airplane factory

Sabotage Broadcast (1938)
...Pirate radio during WWII

All Roads Lead to Friday (1939)
...mining heist in the Black Hills of South Dakota

The Trojan Horse (1940)
...Legal drama

Wreckers Must Breathe (1940)
...Brit journalist discovers a secret U-Boat fleet off the Cornwall coast

Attack Alarm (1941)
...Novel of action during the Battle-of-Britain

Dead and Alive (1946)
...sea salvage yarn

Killer Mine (1947)
...Mining industry yarn set in Cornwall

The Lonely Skier (1947)
...A screenwriter discovers buried Nazi gold in the Dolomite mountains of Italy

The Blue Ice (1948)
...Precious mineral ore sought in Norway; Nazi angle

Maddon’s Rock (1948)
...Ship-salvage yarn off the coast of Scotland

The White South (1949)
...whaling drama, Antarctic setting

The Angry Mountain (1950)
...Industrial espionage in Czechoslovakia

Air Bridge (1951)
...Two ex WWII pilots battle each other to try to build an air freight company

Campbell’s Kingdom (1952)
...A dying man hunts oil in the US Rocky mountains

The Strange Land (1954)
...Danger in Morocco among warring tribesmen

The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1956)
...sea salvage yarn

The Land God Gave to Cain (1958)
...A son investigates the death of his geologist father in the Canadian arctic

The Doomed Oasis (1960)
...A lawyer tries to reunite two desert explorers --father and son--somewhere in the Syrian desert

Atlantic Fury (1962)
...A disgraced 'black sheep' son secretly orchestrates the evacuation of an army base from a North Atlantic island

The Strode Venturer (1965)
...A vanished heir is sought in the Maldive Islands

Levkas Man (1971)
...Intrigue amidst a Greek archeological expedition

Golden Soak (1973)
...more intrigue in the mining industry

North Star (1975)
...Oil-rig tale in the North Sea

The Big Footprints (1977)
...Elephant preservation in Africa

Solomons Seal (1980)
...High-seas yarn