Ted Allbeury

Ted Allbeury was is one of England’s best espionage thriller writers of the twentieth century. Born in Stockport, Cheshire, he served in British intelligence as a Special Operations Executive and was the only secret agent to parachute into Germany during World War II, and live behind enemy lines until the allies landed. Allbeury had a pretty eventful; life having lost his father days before the 1918-Armistice of World War I.

The best place to start is the Perennial Library series, the earliest of Ted Allbeury's multi-book series: it opens with You Can't Go Home Again (1940) and runs to 29 books across 1940–1994, ending with Scarne's Encyclopedia Of Card Games (1994). Ted Allbeury's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Ted Allbeury has 73 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1940 and 2007. 32 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Perennial Library series with 29 books — and 41 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. Ted Allbeury's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Perennial Library (1940–1994, 29 books) and Tad Anders (1974–1984, 3 books).

This guide splits Ted Allbeury's 73 books into 2 named series and 41 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Perennial Library (29 books, 1940–1994); Tad Anders (3 books, 1974–1984).