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Checklist of Five Star paperbacks
a slightly revised/ extended version of the 'Five Star: an attempted bibliography' thread on
Vault Mk I as compiled by severance, pulphack, calenture, demonik.
Occult/ ThrillersW. A. Ballinger - Drums Of The Dark Gods
Peter Saxon - The Haunting Of Alan Mais
Peter Saxon - The Killing Bone
Peter Saxon - The Vampires Of Finistere
Peter Saxon - Vampires Moon
Peter Saxon - Black Honey
Peter Saxon - The Darkest Night
Peter Saxon - Satan's Child
Peter Saxon - Dark Ways To Death
Peter Saxon - Through The Dark Curtain
Peter Saxon - The Torturer
Peter Saxon - Corruption
Peter Saxon - Scream And Scream Again
Howard Baker - The Treasure Hunters
R Warner-Crozetti - The Widderburn Horror
Georgena Goff - The Black Dog
Victor Jay - Devil Soul
Martin Thomas - The Hands of Cain
Romance/ Gothic RomanceJulie Wellsley - Climb The Dark Mountain
Kathlees Ross - The Wounded Heart
Julie Wellsley - Chateau Of Secrets
Julie Wellsley - The Fatal Tide
Julie Wellsley - Tall Dark Stranger
Marion Lang - To Love But Not Honour
Conrad Quintin - Quest For Dr. Mallory
Conrad Quintin - Young Dr. Mallory
Petrina Crawford - Seeds Of Evil
Petrina Crawford - Lovers Mist
Josephine Lindsay - A House Is Just A House
Barbara Perkins - A Time For Healing
Liela McKinley - Mists Of The Moor
Liela McKinley - False Relations
Laura Whetter - Eyes Without Eden
Oliver Sandys - The Golden Flame
Trudi Arlen - The Shadowed Heart
Georgia Craig - The Girl Outside
Nancy Kennedy - The Shadow Of The Cliff
Jane Corby - Girl In The Tower
Peggy Gaddis - Love At Second Sight
Peggy Gaddis - Back Home
Peggy Gaddis - Come Into My Heart
Peggy Gaddis - Love Is Enough
Peggy O'More - I'll Never Love Again
Fern Shepard - An Old Fashioned Love
Adelaide Humphries - Doctor Of The Keys
Jeanne Bowman - Lakeville Lady
Florence Kerigan - Runaway From Romance
J. S. Way - The House on Skyhigh Road
D, Nile - Terror at Deepcliffe
K. Rich - The Dreadly Rose
R. McLeod - Mistress of the Shadows
MysteriesMartin Thomas - Death and a Dark Horse
W. A. Ballinger - Unfriendly Persuasion
Bill Rekab - The Dead and the Damned
Howard Baker - No Place for Strangers
W.A. Ballinger - The Big Steal
Howard Baker - The Dirty Game
Bill Rekab - Cry From the Dark
Arthur Berry - Take Death for a Lover
Matt Slade - Swiftly to Evil
Frank Gruber - Swing Low Swing Dead
Laurence Janifer - The Final Fear
Douglas Enefer - The Dark Kiss
Science FictionLeo Brett - The Alien Ones
Eando Binder - Night Of The Saucers
Frank Belknap - Lest Earth Be Conquered
Karl Mannheim - When The Earth Died
Karl Mannheim - Vampires Of Venus
Mack Reynolds - The Cosmic Eye
Laurence M. Juniper - A Piece Of Martin Cann
Ivar Jorgensen - Whom The Gods Say
Lin Carter - Giant Of World's End
Lin Carter - The Quest Of Kadji
Vincent King - Another End
Emil Petaja - The Nets Of Space
Dave Van Arnan - Wizard Of Souls
Novels/ Spy and Espionage/ War Howard Baker - The Girl in Asses Milk
W.A. Ballinger - Naked From a Well
Genevieve St. John - The Shadow On Spanish Swamp
Gil Brewer - The Brat
John McPartland - Ripe Fruit
Howard Baker - Treason by Truth
Howard Baker - The Inexpendable
Howard Baker - The Rape of Berlin
Howard Baker - Destination Dieppe
Howard Baker - Strike North
Lawrence Cortesi - Mission Incredible
WesternsBurt & Budd Arthur - Action At Truxton
Burt Arthur - Gunsmoke In Nevada
Burt Arthur - Sing A Song Of Six Guns
Desmond Reid - Death Waits In Tuscan
Desmond Reid - The Man From Pecos
Desmond Reid - The Babcock Boys
Ros Story - The Raiders of Wyoming
Gordon Shirreffs - Rio Bravo
Leslie Emenwein - Gunfighters Return
Gordon Shirreffs - Bugles On The Prairie
Joseph Chadwick - Savage Breed
Homer Hatten - Horsemen From Hell
Gordon Shirreffs - Ambush On The Mesa
Frank Castle - Fort Desperation
Homer Hatten - Plunder Range
Joseph Chadwick - Renegade Gun
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This is by no means comprehensive, but we can flesh it out as we go along. Several of Richard Prather's Shell Scott mysteries received the Five Star treatment including
Dig That Crazy Grave,
Bodies In Bedlam and
Scrambled Yeggs. As far as i'm aware, the Manchester based Five Star were a short-lived (1970-1972?) subsidiary of World Distributors.