Order of Department Z Books
Department Z is a series of crime/spy fiction novels by English novelist John Creasey. Department Z is a British Intelligence agency set up in the early 1930s and is made up of civilians whose identities are unknown. The series is set around the time of World War II – contemporary of the time they were published in.
John Creasey began his Department Z series in 1933 with the novel The Death Miser. The series ran for 28 novels, concluding with 1957’s The Black Spiders. Below is a list of John Creasey’s Department Z books in order of when they were originally released (which is the same as their chronological order):
Publication Order of Department Z Books
The Death Miser | (1933) | |
Redhead | (1933) | |
First Came a Murder | (1934) | |
Death ‘Round the Corner | (1935) | |
The Mark of the Crescent | (1935) | |
Thunder in Europe | (1936) | |
The Terror Trap | (1936) | |
Carriers of Death | (1937) | |
Days of Danger | (1937) | |
Death Stands By | (1938) | |
Menace! | (1938) | |
Murder Must Wait | (1939) | |
Panic! | (1939) | |
Death by Night | (1940) | |
Island of Peril | (1940) | |
Sabotage | (1941) | |
Go Away Death | (1942) | |
The Day of Disaster | (1942) | |
Prepare for Action | (1942) | |
No Darker Crime | (1943) | |
Dark Peril | (1944) | |
The Peril Ahead | (1946) | |
The League of Dark Men | (1947) | |
The Department of Death | (1949) | |
The Enemy Within | (1950) | |
Dead or Alive | (1951) | |
A Kind of Prisoner | (1954) | |
The Black Spiders | (1957) |