# List of stories by Charles Hamilton

The table below is a summary of the stories published by Charles Hamilton during his career.

## Listing - including stories published in book format

| Subject matter | Pen-name | Publication | Dates | Estimated number of stories |
| Greyfriars School | Frank Richards | Magnet, Schoolboys' Own Library, Billy Bunter's Own, Skilton, Cassell | 1908-1961 | 1,500 |
| St Jim's School | Martin Clifford | Gem, Schoolboys Own Library, Tom Merry's Own, Goldhawk Books, Mandeville, Spring Books | 1907-1956 | 1,000 |
| Rookwood School | Owen Conquest | Boys' Friend Weekly, Greyfriars Holiday, Annual, Mandeville, Spring Books, Tom Merry's Own, Billy Bunter's Own | 1915-1961 | 585 |
| Cedar Creek School | Martin Clifford | Boys' Friend Weekly | 1917-1921 | 205 |
| Benbow Floating School | Owen Conquest | Greyfriars' Herald | 1915-1920 | 20 |
| Highcliffe School | Frank Richards | Boys' Friend Library | 1915 - 1940 | 2 |
| Sparshott School | Frank Richards | William C Merrett | 1945-46 | 6 |
| Carcroft School | Frank Richards | Hutchinson's Pie, The Silver Jacket, Tom Merry's Own | 1944-55 | 50 |
| Lynwood School | Frank Richards | JB Publications | 1949 | 2 |
| Topham School | Frank Richards | Mascot | 1946-47 | 4 |
| High Coombe - The School for Slackers | Charles Hamilton | Modern Boy, Popular | 1935 | 20 |
| Bendover School | Charles Hamilton | Pilot | 1937 | 20 |
| St Kit's | Charles Hamilton | Pluck | 1907 | 49 |
| Grimsdale School | Frank Richards | Ranger | 1931-30 | 100 |
| Headland House School | Hilda Richards | William C Merrett | 1946 | 3 |
| St Olive's School | Hilda Richards | Mascot | 1946-47 | 3 |
| Cliff House School | Hilda Richards | School Friend, Cassell | 1919-1950 | 20 |
| Herlock Sholmes - Spoof detective | Peter Todd | Greyfriars' Herald, The Magnet, The Gem, Tom Merry's Own Annual, The Penny Popular | 1915-1954 | 100 |
| King Cricket - story of county cricket | Charles Hamilton | Boys' Realm | 1907 | 24 |
| Football Fortune! (Blackdale School) | Charles Hamilton | Boys' Realm | 1905-1906 | 11 |
| Pelham School | Charles Hamilton | Boys' Realm | 1910 | 33 |
| St Dorothy's School | Charles Hamilton | Boys' Realm | 1909-1910 | 36 |
| Ken King - South Seas | Charles Hamilton | Modern Boy | 1928-1939 | 208 |
| The Popolaki Patrol - Africa | Charles Hamilton | Popular | 1930 | 15 |
| Rio Kid - Westerns | Ralph Redway | Modern Boy, Popular | 1928-1938 | 60 |
| Bunny Hare - Boy Adventurer | Charles Hamilton | Modern Boy | 1930 | 12 |
| Len Lex - Schoolboy Detective | Charles Hamilton | Modern Boy | 1936-37 | 24 |
| Jack Free / Jack of all Trades - Itinerant | Frank Richards | Mandeville, Spring Books, Tom Merry's Own, Billy Bunter's Own, Friars' Library | 1949-2013 | 14 |
| Romance | Winston Cardew | W.C. Merrett | 1945-1946 | 5 |
| Trapps Holmes general - Detective, Western, School | Gordon Conway, Freeman Fox, Hamilton Greening, Cecil Herbert, Prosper Howard, Robert Jennings, Gillingham Jones, T Harcourt Llewelyn, Clifford Owen, Ridley Redway, Raleigh Robbins, Eric Stanhope, Robert Stanley, Nigel Wallace, Talbot Wynyard, | Smiles, Funny Cuts, World's Comic, Picture Fun, Vanguard, Coloured Comic | 1899-1910 | In excess of 1,000 |
| Early work - inc. pirate adventures | Various | Various | 1894-1899 | Not known |

## Published in book format - generally post 1940

After World War II, story papers had stopped being published so Hamilton was obliged to publish his stories in book format. The style of the stories did not change.

### As Frank Richards
#### Billy Bunter novels

* Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (1947)
* Billy Bunter’s Banknote (1948)
* Billy Bunter’s Barring-Out (1948)
* Billy Bunter’s Christmas Party (1949)
* Billy Bunter in Brazil (1949)
* Billy Bunter’s Benefit (1950)
* Billy Bunter among the Cannibals (1950)
* Billy Bunter’s Postal Order (1951)
* Billy Bunter Butts In (1951)
* Billy Bunter and the Blue Mauritius (1952)
* Billy Bunter’s Beanfeast (1952)
* Billy Bunter’s Brain-Wave (1953)
* Billy Bunter’s First Case (1953)
* Billy Bunter the Bold (1954)
* Billy Bunter Does His Best (1954)
* Billy Bunter’s Double (1955)
* Backing Up Billy Bunter (1955)
* Lord Billy Bunter (1956)
* The Banishing of Billy Bunter (1956)
* Billy Bunter’s Bolt (1957)
* Billy Bunter Afloat (1957)
* Billy Bunter’s Bargain (1958)
* Billy Bunter the Hiker (1958)
* Bunter Out of Bounds (1959)
* Bunter Comes for Christmas (1959)
* Bunter the Bad Lad (1960)
* Bunter Keeps It Dark (1960)
* Billy Bunter’s Treasure-Hunt (1961)
* Billy Bunter at Butlins (1961)
* Bunter the Ventriloquist (1961)
* Bunter the Caravanner (1961)
* Billy Bunter’s Bodyguard (1962)
* Big Chief Bunter (1963)
* Just Like Bunter (1963)
* Bunter the Stowaway (1964)
* Thanks to Bunter (1964)
* Bunter the Sportsman (1965)
* Bunter’s Last Fling (1965)

#### "Jack" novels

* Jack of All Trades (1950)
* Jack’s the Lad (1955)
* Jack of the Circus (1955)
* Jack Goes South (2011)
* Jack in Africa (2012)
* Jack in Danger (2012)
* Jack on the Treasure Trail (2013)

#### Tom Merry novels

* Trouble for Tom Merry (1953)
* Down and Out (1953)
* Cardew’s Catch (1954)
* The Disappearance of Tom Merry (1954)
* Through Thick and Thin (1955)
* Tom Merry’s Triumph (1956)
* Tom Merry and Co, Caravanners (1956)

#### Other novels

* The Secret of the School (1946)
* The Black Sheep of Sparshott (1946)
* First Man In (1946)
* Looking After Lamb (1946)
* The Hero of Sparshott (1946)
* Pluck Will Tell (1946)
* Top Study at Topham (1947)
* Bunny Binks on the Warpath (1947)
* The Dandy of Topham (1947)
* Sent to Coventry (1947)
* The Lone Texan (1954)

### as Hilda Richards

* The Girls of Headland House (1946)
* Under Becky's Thumb (1946)
* Winifred on the Warpath (1946)
* Pamela of St Olive's (1946)
* The Stranded Schoolgirls (1947)
* The Jape of the Term (1947)
* The St Olive's Sweepstake (1947)
* Bessie Bunter of Cliff House School (1949)

### as Martin Clifford

[some of these were later reprinted with the author as Frank Richards]
* The Secret of the Study (1949)
* Talbot’s Secret (1949)
* Tom Merry and Co of St. Jim’s (1949)
* Rallying Round Gussy (1950)
* The Scapegrace of St. Jim’s (1951)
* Tom Merry’s Secret (1952)
* Tom Merry’s Rival (1952)
* The Man from the Past (1952)
* Who Ragged Ralton? (1952)
* Skimpole’s Snapshot (1952)
* Trouble for Trimble (1952)
* D’Arcy in Danger (1952)
* D’Arcy on the Warpath (1952)
* D’Arcy’s Disappearance (1952)
* D’Arcy the Reformer (1952)
* D’Arcy’s Day Off (1952)

### as Owen Conquest

* The Rivals of Rookwood (1951)