Ralph Hammond Innes was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as works for children and travel books.
Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke,, of Scarthingwell Hall in the parish of Saxton with Scarthingwell, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, was a Royal Navy officer. As captain of the third-rate HMS Berwick, he took part in the Battle of Toulon in February 1744 during the War of the Austrian Succession. He also captured six ships of a French squadron in the Bay of Biscay in the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre in October 1747.
The Wreck of the Mary Deare is a 1956 novel written by British author Hammond Innes, which was later adapted as a film starring Gary Cooper released in 1959 by MGM. According to Jack Adrian, the book "at a stroke launched him into that rarefied empyrean most writers yearn for though few attain, supersellerdom."
Campbell's Kingdom is a 1957 British adventure film directed by Ralph Thomas, based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. The film stars Dirk Bogarde and Stanley Baker, with Michael Craig, Barbara Murray, James Robertson Justice and Sid James in support. The story is set in Alberta, Canada, and largely follows the principles of the Northwestern genre of film-making.
George Hammond Whalley was a British lawyer and Liberal Party politician. He became chairman of the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway.
The Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway is a private Canadian regional railway that stretches 414 kilometres (257 mi) through the wilderness of northeastern Quebec and western Labrador. It connects Labrador City, Labrador, with the port of Sept-Îles, Quebec, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. QNS&L is owned by Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC), and is a common carrier.
The Bull and Mouth Inn was a coaching inn in the City of London that dated from before the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was located between Bull and Mouth Street in the north and Angel Street in the south. It was once an important arrival and departure point for coaches from all over Britain, but particularly for the north of England and Scotland. It became the Queen's Hotel in 1830 but was demolished in 1887 or 1888 when new post office buildings were built in St Martin's Le Grand.
The Lonely Skier is a 1947 thriller novel by British writer Hammond Innes. It is set in the Dolomites where a number of people are hunting a stash of buried Nazi treasure. The hero Neil Blair, recently demobbed from the army and unemployed, is hired to go to an isolated ski resort and pretend he is writing a screenplay.
Killer Mine or The Killer Mine is a 1947 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. Jim Pryce, a deserter from the British Army, returns clandestinely from Italy aboard the ship Arisaig to his native Cornwall, but is left on a beach having been robbed, beaten, and implicated in murder. Seeking to use his mining expertise, he becomes involved in an attempt to re-open the abandoned and flooded Wheal Garth mine owned by the elderly Manack, but Manack's son and his henchmen force him to drill a sea entrance from one of the mine galleries to be used for smuggling liquor. His only ally is the girl, Kitty, who delivers him a letter from his long-dead mother and hints that her death was not an accident, but part of a plot by which old Manack gained control of the mine.
Maddon's Rock is a 1948 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes published by Collins. The following year it was released in America by Harper with the alternative title of Gale Warning. To research the novel Innes crewed on a friend's yacht in the Fastnet Race.
The Blue Ice is a 1948 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes and published by Collins.
Attack Alarm is a 1941 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. It was inspired by the author's own experience as an anti-aircraft gunner at RAF Kenley during the Battle of Britain. In fact, according to Adrian Jack, the manuscript "was written on a gun-site after he had joined the Royal Artillery".
The Trojan Horse is a 1940 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. A London lawyer decides to help a German inventor suspected of murder.
The Angry Mountain is a 1950 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. An Englishman still tortured by his wartime experiences, gets drawn into intrigue in Czechoslovakia and Italy.
Air Bridge is a 1951 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes.
Atlantic Fury is a 1962 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. A man investigates the death of his brother in a military disaster in the Outer Hebrides.
Golden Soak is a 1973 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. It was adapted into a 1979 Australian television series of the same title. In 1981 it was adapted to a children's story.
North Star is a 1974 British thriller novel by Hammond Innes. A man tries to prevent a plot to blow up a North Sea oil rig.
The Doomed Oasis is a 1960 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. A solicitor helps a young man to travel to the Arabian Peninsula to find his father, a famous oil prospector Colonel Charles Whitaker.
Solomon's Seal is a 1980 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. It was published in the United Kingdom by Collins and in the United States by Knopf.
