# E. W. Hildick

Edmund Wallace Hildick (1925–2001) was a prolific children's book author, who wrote under the name E. W. Hildick. He wrote, amongst others, the Ghost Squad, Jim Starling, Birdy Jones, Jack McGurk and Lemon Kelly series.

## Background

He was born in Bradford, England in 1925. After two years service in the RAF, he became a secondary school teacher, then a writer, before moving to the United States to become editor of a literary magazine. He was one of the very few British juvenile authors of his generation to achieve success in America.
He started writing while he was a teacher in a Secondary Modern school at Dewsbury, in the West Riding of Yorkshire in England, his intended audience being "tough, modern kids similar to the ones I teach". He died in London England.

## Series
### Jim Starling

* Jim Starling (1958)
* Jim Starling and the Agency (1958)
* Jim Starling and the Colonel (1958)
* Jim Starling's Holiday (1960)
* Jim Starling and the Spotted Dog (1963)
* Jim Starling Goes To Town (1963)
* Jim Starling Takes Over (1963)

### McGurk Mystery

* The Nose Knows (1963)
* Dolls in Danger (1974; aka Deadline for McGurk)
* The Case of the Condemned Cat (1975)
* The Case of the Nervous Newsboy (1976)
* The Great Rabbit Robbery (1976; aka "The Great Rabbit Rip-Off")
* The Case of the Invisible Dog (1977)
* The Case of the Secret Scribbler (1978)
* The Case of the Phantom Frog (1979)
* The Case of the Treetop Treasure (1980)
* The Case of the Snowbound Spy (1980)
* The Case of the Bashful Bank Robber (1981)
* The Case of the Four Flying Fingers (1981)
* Mcgurk Gets Good and Mad (1982)
* The Case of the Felon's Fiddle (1982)
* The Case of the Slingshot Sniper (1983)
* The Case of the Muttering Mummy (1986)
* The Case of the Wandering Weathervanes (1988)
* The Case of the Vanishing Ventriloquist (1989)
* The Case Of The Purloined Parrot (1990)
* The Case of the Desperate Drummer (1993)
* The Case of the Fantastic Footprints (1994)
* The Case of the Absent Author (1995)
* The Case Of The Wiggling Wig (1996)

### McGurk Fantasy

* The Case of the Dragon in Distress (1991)
* The Case of the Weeping Witch (1992)

### Birdy Jones

* Birdy Jones (1963)
* Birdy and the Group (1968)
* Birdy Swings North (1969)
* Birdy in Amsterdam (1970)
* Birdy Jones and the New York Heads (1974)

### Lemon Kelly

* Meet Lemon Kelly (1963)
* Lemon Kelly Digs Deep (1964)
* Lemon Kelly and the Home Made Boy (1968)

### Louie

* Louie's Lot (1965)
* Louie's S.O.S (1968)
* Louie's Snowstorm (1974)
* Louie's Ransom (1978)

### Questers

* The Questers (1966)
* The Questers and the Whispering Spy (1967)

### Crown books, one crown

* Back with Parren (1968)
* Here Comes Parren (1968)

### Ghost Squad

* 1. Ghost Squad Breaks Through (1984)
* 2. Ghost Squad and Halloween Conspiracy (1985)
* 2. Ghost Squad and the Prowling Hermits (1987)
* 3. The Ghost Squad Flies Concorde (1985)
* 6. The Ghost Squad and the Menace of the Malevs (1988)
* Ghost Squad and the Ghoul of Grunberg (1986)

### Felicity Snell Mystery

* The Purloined Corn Popper (1997)
* The Serial Sneak Thief (1997)

### Alison McNair

* The Active-Enzyme Lemon-Freshened Junior High School Witch (1973)
* The Top-Flight Fully-Automated Junior High School Girl Detective (1978)

## Novels

* The Boy At the Window (1960)
* Bed and Work (1962)
* Mapper Mundy's Treasure Hunt (1963)
* A Town On the Never (1963)
* Lunch with Ashurbanipal (1965)
* Calling Questers Four (1967)
* Lucky Les (1967)
* Time Explorers, Inc (1967)
* Manhattan Is Missing (1969)
* Monte Carlo Or Bust! (1969)
* Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969)
* Top Boy At Twisters Creek (1969)
* The Prisoners of Gridling Gap (1971)
* The Doughnut Dropout (1972)
* Kids Commune (1972)
* Bracknell's Law (1975)
* The Weirdown Experiment (1976)
* A Cat Called Amnesia (1976)
* Vandals (1977)
* The Loop (1977)
* The Memory Tap (1989)
* My Famous Father (1990)
* Hester Bidgood (1994)

## Non-fiction

* Word for Word: The Rewriting of Fiction (1965)
* Writing With Care (1967)
* A Close Look at Television and Sound Broadcasting (1967)
* Thirteen Types of Narrative (1968)
* Children and Fiction (1970)