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
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The Death Miser |
(1933) |
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Redhead |
(1933) |
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First Came a Murder |
(1934) |
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Death ‘Round the Corner |
(1935) |
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The Mark of the Crescent |
(1935) |
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Thunder in Europe |
(1936) |
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The Terror Trap |
(1936) |
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Carriers of Death |
(1937) |
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Days of Danger |
(1937) |
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Death Stands By |
(1938) |
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Menace! |
(1938) |
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Murder Must Wait |
(1939) |
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Panic! |
(1939) |
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Death by Night |
(1940) |
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Island of Peril |
(1940) |
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Sabotage |
(1941) |
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Go Away Death |
(1942) |
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The Day of Disaster |
(1942) |
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Prepare for Action |
(1942) |
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No Darker Crime |
(1943) |
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Dark Peril |
(1944) |
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The Peril Ahead |
(1946) |
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The League of Dark Men |
(1947) |
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The Department of Death |
(1949) |
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The Enemy Within |
(1950) |
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Dead or Alive |
(1951) |
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A Kind of Prisoner |
(1954) |
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The Black Spiders |
(1957) |