Roderic Jeffries / Roderic Graeme

Roderic Jeffries is British detective fiction author who also writes as Graham Hastings, Roderic Graeme, Jeffrey Ashford, and Peter Alding. Jeffries is descended from Quaker William Penn, who famously gave his name to the newly found colony of Pennsylvania. His father was the popular detective thriller writer Graham Montague Jeffries of the “Blackshirt” series of novels fame.

The best place to start is the Blackshirt series, the earliest of Roderic Jeffries / Roderic Graeme's multi-book series: it opens with Concerning Blackshirt (1952) and runs to 19 books across 1952–1969, ending with Blackshirt Stirs Things Up (1969). Roderic Jeffries / Roderic Graeme's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Roderic Jeffries / Roderic Graeme has 149 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1952 and 2014. 74 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the Inspector Alvarez series with 37 books — and 75 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Roderic Jeffries / Roderic Graeme's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Blackshirt (1952–1969, 19 books), Brandy (1953–1955, 2 books) and Don Kerry (1961–1968, 2 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Roderic Jeffries / Roderic Graeme's 149 books into 5 named series and 75 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Inspector Alvarez (37 books, 1974–2014); Blackshirt (19 books, 1952–1969); C. I. D. Room (14 books, 1967–1983); Brandy (2 books, 1953–1955); Don Kerry (2 books, 1961–1968).