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Sexton
Blake is a fictional detective who has featured in comic strips, comics
and novels since 1893. For a full history I suggest looking him up on
Wikipedia. In addition to a number of films, Sexton Blake appeared on
television twice... first as an ITV series that ran for four seasons
from 1967 to 1971 starring Laurence Payne in the title role and then
as a six-part mini-series in 1978 on the BBC titled 'Sexton Blake and
the Demon God' starring Jeremy Clyde in the title role.
There have been hundreds of books and comics issued over the years, most notably The Sexton Blake Library that started in 1915 as small digest size magazines that ran for four series until 1963. I have not collected any of these and they will not be featured here. However, I have collected the Series 5 books that were published from 1965 by William Howard Baker, the then series editor, initially in the Mayflower Books imprint in the UK and then as Howard Baker books. All of the Series 5 adventures were regular-sized paperbacks that were numbered to No 45, sometimes issued twice monthly and ending in 1968. A few further un-numbered novels were published, culminating in (for the 20th Century) the novelisation of the 1978 BBC production. In the US the books were reprinted by Macfadden Books, also numbered but in a completely different order and I do not know how many of these there were. A Sexton Blake comic strip featured in the Valiant comic and annuals from 1968 to 1970. This gallery reflects my collection to date and those I know about that I would like for my collection.  =
In My Collection / 
= Not in My Collection
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Mayflower
Books (UK)
Series
5 Paperbacks
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No
1 (1965)
 Murderer at Large |
No
2 (1965)
 Let My People Be |
No
3 (1965)
 Laird of Evil |
No
4 (1965)
 The Break Out |
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No
5 (1965)
 Slaying on the 16th Floor |
No
6 (1965)
 The Witches of Notting Hill |
No
7 (1965)
 The Man With the Iron Chest |
No
8 (1965)
 Wanted For Questioning |
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No
9 (Jun 1965)
 The Mind Killers |
No
10 (Jun 1965)
 Vengeance is Ours |
No
11 (Jul 1965)
 Beat on an Orange Drum |
No
12 (Jul 1965)
 The Savage Squeeze |
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No
13 (Aug 1965)
 I, The Hangman |
No
14 (Aug 1965)
 The Case of The Stag at Bay |
No
15 (Sep 1965)
 Death in the Top Twenty |
No
16 (Sep 1965)
 The Fugitive |
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No
17 (Oct 1965)
 Company of Bandits |
No
18 (Oct 1965)
 Such Men are Dangerous |
No
19 (Nov 1965)
 The Sniper |
No
20 (Nov 1965)
 The Strange Face of Murder |
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No
21 (Dec 1965)
 Corpse to Cuba |
No
22 (Jan 1966)
 Every Man an Enemy |
No
23 (Mar 1966)
 The Case of the Muckrakers |
No
24 (Mar 1966)
 Murder on the Monte |
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No
25 (Apr 1966)
 The Deadlier of the Species |
No
26 (May 1966)
 Frenzy in the Flesh |
No
27 (Jun 1966)
 Sorcerers of Set |
No
28 (Jul 1966)
 The Case of the Bismarck Memoirs |
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No
29 (Aug 1966)
 A Starlet for a Penny |
No
30 (Sep 1966)
 Death on the Spike |
No
31 (Oct 1966)
 Murder Goes Nap |
No
32 (Nov 1966)
 Fire Over India |
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No
33 (Dec 1966)
 The Snowman Cometh |
No
34 (1967)
 Dead Respectable |
No
35 (1967)
 An Event Called Murder |
No
36 (1967)
 This Spy Must Die |
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No
37 (1967)
 The Slave Brain |
No
38 (1967)
 Treason Remembered |
No
39 (?)
 Crash and Carry |
No
40 (1968)
 The Trail of the Golden Girl |
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No
41 (?)
 Star Crossed |
No
42 (1968)
 Brainwashed |
No
43 (1968)
 The Abductors |
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No
44 (1968)
 The Case of the Renegade Agent |
No
45 (1968)
 Down Among the Ad Men |
Howard
Baker Books
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1969
 Slaughter in the Sun |
1969
 Driven to Kill |
1969
 Mini-Skirt Murders |
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1969
 The Case of the Missing Bullion |
1969
 The Season of the Skylark |
1969
 The Blonde and the Boodle |
Dean
& Son Ltd Books
Hardback
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1968
 Raffles' Crime in Gibraltar |
1968
 The Secret of the Snows |
1968
 Danger at Westways |
1968
 The Secret of the Ten Bales |
Macfadden
Books (US)
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No
1 (1967)
 I, The Hangman |
No
2 (1967)
 The Witches of Notting Hill |
No
3 (1967)
 Every Man an Enemy |
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No
4 (1967)
 The Case of the Muckrakers |
No
5 (1967)
 Corpse to Cuba |
No
6 (1968)
 Murder on the Monte |
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No
7 (1968)
 Frenzy in the Flesh |
No
8 (1969)
 Star Crossed |
No
9 (1969)
 The Trail of the Golden Girl |
Annual
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©1968
 The Valiant Book of TV's Sexton Blake |
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Zenith Books (UK) |
Mirror Books (UK) |
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