Jim Eldridge

24 Series

Jim Eldridge is a British author known for his historical mystery, thriller, YA, and children's novels, as well as non-fiction books. Over his 40-year career, he has written 250 TV and 250 BBC radio scripts, including the acclaimed King Street Junior, and bestselling children's books such as The Trenches and Roman Invasion. Since 2010, Eldridge has focused on historical crime novels, notably the Victorian-set Museum Mysteries and the WWII-focused DCI Edgar Saxe-Coburg series. He resides in Kent with his wife, Lynne.

Jake faces escalating threats: a near-fatal push onto tube tracks, the theft of his girlfriend Lauren's research, and the discovery of a dead body in his flat, for which he is framed for murder. As danger mounts, Jake and Lauren must uncover the truth behind these sinister events before it's too late.

Black Ops

Jungle Kill

(2010)

Death in the Desert

(2010)

Urban Assassin

(2011)

Bug Club

Green Soppy Hop

(2001)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Bug Boy - Spider Camp!

(2001)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Bug Boy - Slug Picnic

(2002)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Pompom Pets

(2002)(By: Jeanne Willis)

The Moon Monsters Get Lost

(2002)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Sid Did it

(2002)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Rat and Cat - The Dance

(2004)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Slug Picnic

(2004)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Get a Parrot

(2007)(By: Jeanne Willis)

A Little Green Monster

(2007)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Keeping a Pet

(2007)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Giant George & the Robin

(2008)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Boring, Boring

(2008)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Babysitting Barney

(2008)(By: Jeanne Willis)

The Trout Fishing Song

(2008)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Rat and Cat - The Hat!

(2008)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Dig Sid Dig

(2009)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Bug Boy - Beetle Cookies

(2009)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Julia Donaldson Plays

(2009)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Turquoise

(2009)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Orange

(2010)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Spider Camp

(2010)(By: Jeanne Willis)

The Not-So-Merry-Go-Round

(2010)(By: Maureen Haselhurst)

The Bop

(2010)(By: Jeanne Willis)

BC Yellow A/1C Bug Boy: Beetle Cookies

(2010)(By: Jeanne Willis)

A Rat and Cat in the H

(2010)(By: Jeanne Willis)

The Quiz Went Fizz!

(2010)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Let's Rock

(2011)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Sid and the Boxer Pup

(2011)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Butterfly Pie

(2011)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Sea Fishing

(2011)(By: Jeanne Willis)

The Runaway T

(2011)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Step Inside a Story

(2012)(By: Julia Donaldson)

Plays to Act Tyrannosaurus Drip

(2012)(By: Julia Donaldson)

Plays to Act Tiddler

(2012)(By: Julia Donaldson)

Flash the Dog Dives In!

(2012)

Bug Club Independent Fiction Year 3 Brown A Changing Places

(2012)(By: Nette Hilton)

The Dragon's Tale and Other Beastly Stories

(2012)(By: Anthony Horowitz,Simone Massoni)

Machines on the Move

(2012)(By: Clive Gifford)

Rat and Cat - Let's Jump

(2012)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Missing Milly

(2013)(By: Julia Donaldson)

Goha and the Shoes

(2013)(By: Julia Donaldson)

The Best Bet

(2013)(By: Julia Donaldson,Charlie Alder)

Frog Fight

(2013)(By: Julia Donaldson)

The Noises Next Door

(2013)(By: Julia Donaldson)

Don't Call Me Mum!

(2013)(By: Julia Donaldson)

One-way Ticket to Mars

(2013)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Turquoise Rap-unzel

(2013)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Orange Little Red Riding Hood

(2013)(By: Jeanne Willis)

Flash the Dog Bounces In!

(2013)

Big Giant, Little Bear

(2013)(By: Rosalind Kerven)

Bug Club Guided Fiction Year 2 Orange A Goldilocks and The B

(2013)(By: Smriti Prasadam-Halls)

The Road to Freedom

(2017)(By: Lesa Cline-Ransome)

DCI Paul Stark

Assassins

(2016)

Shadows of the Dead

(2017)

Disgusting Dave

Disgusting Dave And The Farting Dog

(2009)

Disgusting Dave And The Flesh Eating Maggots

(2010)

Disgusting Dave and the Bucketful of Vomit

(2011)

Fantasy Soldiers (as Lee James)

Death In The Jungle

(1995)

Killer In The City

(1995)

White Death

(1995)

Plague Ship

(1995)

Hotel Mysteries

Murder at the Ritz

(2021)

Murder at the Savoy

(2021)

Murder at Claridge's

(2022)

London Underground Station Mysteries

Murder at Aldwych Station

(2022)

Murder at Down Street Station

(2023)

Murder at Lord's Station

(2024)

Murder at Whitechapel Road Station

(2024)

The Malichea Quest

The Invisible Assassin

(2012)

The Deadly Game

(2012)

The Lethal Target

(2013)

The Last Enemy

(2013)

Museum Mysteries

Murder at the Fitzwilliam

(2018)

Murder at the British Museum

(2019)

Murder at the Ashmolean

(2019)

Murder at the Manchester Museum

(2020)

Murder at the Natural History Museum

(2020)

Murder at Madame Tussauds

(2021)

Murder at the National Gallery

(2022)

Murder at the Victoria and Albert Museum

(2022)

Murder at the Tower of London

(2023)

Murder at the Louvre

(2023)

SAS

Hostile Terrain

(2003)

London Siege

(2003)

Secret Assault: SAS

(2004)

Jungle War: Sas

(2004)

Survivor

Escape from Pompeii

(2017)

Warpath (as J. Eldridge)

Tank Attack

(1999)

Deadly Skies

(1999)

Behind Enemy Lines

(1999)

Depth Charge Danger

(1999)

Night Bomber

(2000)

Island of Fear

(2000)

Wrestling Trolls

Big Rock and the Masked Avenger

(2014)

Hunk and Thud

(2014)

The Giant Rumble

(2014)

Thud in Trouble

(2015)

Jack Versus Veto

(2015)

The Final Showdown

(2015)

Standalone Novels

Down Payment On Death

(1972)

Bad Boyes

(1987)(With: Duncan Eldridge)

King Street Junior

(1988)

Bad Boyes and the Gangsters

(1988)

Monsterman

(1988)(With: Duncan Eldridge)

Uncle Jack and Operation Green

(1990)

The Double Life of E.W.Potts, Schoolboy

(1991)

Time Riders

(1991)

Uncle Jack and the Loch Ness Monster

(1991)

The Legend of the Lost Keys

(1998)

Desert Duel

(2004)

Dunkirk Escape

(2009)

4.3.2.1

(2010)

Sink the Tirpitz

(2010)

Bomb!

(2011)

Blood on the Wall

(2013)

Chapter

Under Attack

(2013)

Gunpoint

(2016)

Picture

Tractor and Digger Save the Day

(1997)

Tractor And Digger

(1999)

Wayfarers

(2017)

The Refugee Camp

(2017)

Graphic Novels

Captain Hawk And The Stone Of Destiny

(1997)

Collections

Monster Summer Reading Pack

(1995)

Spies And Special Forces!

(2002)

Second World War Stories for Boys

(2012)

Daring World War Two Stories for Boys

(2013)

Courageous First World War Stories

(2014)

Non-Fiction

The Funniest Joke Book

(1983)

Bogeys, Boils And Bellybuttons

(1986)(With: Duncan Eldridge)

Save Our Planet

(1987)

Holidays Survival Guide

(1989)

The Complete How to Handle Grown-ups

(1991)(With: Duncan Eldridge)

Completely Misleading Guide to School

(1994)

What Grown-Ups Say and What They Really Mean

(1994)

Even More Ways to Handle Grown-ups

(1996)(With: Duncan Eldridge)

Warriors! True Stories Of Combat, Skill And Courage

(2001)

A Canny History of Carlisle

(2006)

Standing Alone

(2011)

London Stories

(2012)

Charles Dickens

(2012)

Alan Turing

(2013)

Stories of the First World War

(2014)

Independence. War in Ireland

(2017)

50 Things You Should Know About . . .

50 Things You Should Know About The Tudors

(2004)(By: Rupert Matthews)

50 Things You Should Know about Fierce Creatures

(2004)(By: Steve Parker)

50 Things You Should Know About The First World War

(2014)

50 Things You Should Know About the Second World War

(2015)(By: Simon Pratt-Adams)

50 Things You Should Know About The Human Body

(2015)(By: Angela Royston)

50 Things You Should Know About the Environment

(2016)(By: Jen Green)

My Story

The Titanic

(1992)(By: Ellen Emerson White)

My Story The Trenches

(1999)

My Story

(2001)(By: Vince Cross)

The Hunger

(2001)(By: Carol Drinkwater)

Twentieth Century Girl

(2001)(By: Carol Drinkwater)

The Great Plague

(2001)(By: Pamela Oldfield)

Battle of Britain

(2002)(By: Chris Priestley)

Suffragette

(2003)(By: Carol Drinkwater)

Victorian Workhouse

(2004)(By: Pamela Oldfield)

Sophie's Secret War

(2009)(By: Jill Atkins)

Cadogan Square

(2010)(By: Carol Drinkwater)

Factory Girl

(2011)(By: Pamela Oldfield)

Nowhere to Run

(2012)(By: Carol Drinkwater)

War Spy

(2013)

Victoria

(2014)(By: Anna Kirwan)

Codename Céline

(2015)

Coming Home

(2018)

Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan

(2020)(By: Sufiya Ahmed)

Mayflower

(2020)(By: Kathryn Lasky)

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh

(2022)(By: Sufiya Ahmed)

Mary Prince

(2022)(By: E.L. Norry)

My Story: Boys (with Michael Cox, Chris Priestley, Bryan Perrett)

The Trenches: Billy Stevens, The Western Front, 1914-1918

(2002)

Battle of Britain

(2002)(By: Chris Priestley)

Trafalgar: James Grant, HMS Norseman, 1799-1806

(2002)(By: Bryan Perrett)

Armada: Thomas Hobbs, England, 1587-1588

(2002)

Agincourt : Jenkin Lloyd, France, 1415

(2003)(By: Michael Cox)

Waterloo: Bob Jenkins, Royal Horse Artillery, 1814-1817

(2003)(By: Bryan Perrett)

Flying Ace: Jack Fairfax, Royal Flying Corps, 1915-1918

(2003)

D-Day: Lieutenant Andy Pope, Normandy, 1944

(2004)(By: Bryan Perrett)

Crimea: Michael Pope, 110th Regiment, 1853-1857

(2004)(By: Bryan Perrett)

Spy Smuggler: Paul Lelaud, France, 1942-1944

(2004)

Desert Danger: Tim Jackson, North Africa WWII

(2005)

U-boat Hunter: Peter Rogers, HMS Arum, 1939-1945

(2005)(By: Bryan Perrett)

Roman Invasion: A British Boy, AD 84

(2008)

The Sweep's Boy: A Victorian Boy, London, 1870

(2010)

Pyramid of Secrets

(2010)

Dodger: The Story of a Victorian Pickpocket

(2011)

I Was There

I Was There… Alone In The Trenches

(2014)(By: Vince Cross)

Richard III

(2014)(By: Stuart Hill)

I Was There Boudica's Army

(2015)(By: Hilary McKay)

I Was There Tutankhamun's Tomb

(2015)(By: Sue Reid)

1066

(2015)

I Was There Viking Invasion

(2015)(By: Stuart Hill)

I Was There...: Ira Aldridge

(2021)(By: Judy Hepburn)

On Board the Titanic

(2021)(By: Margi McAllister)

Survivor (with Stephen Davies)

Survivor: Escape from Pompeii

(2017)

Survivor: Titanic

(2017)(By: Stephen Davies)

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