Duke de Richleau Series

This work includes an Introduction by Antony Lejeune. "The Devil Rides Out" is the most famous work of a master storyteller, a classic of weird fiction which has been described as 'the best thing of its kind since Dracula' a genuinely frightening tale of devil-worship and sorcery in modern Britain. A group of old friends discover that one of them has been lured into a coven of Satanists. They determine to rescue him - and a beautiful girl employed as a medium. The head of the coven proves to be no charlatan but an Adept of the Dark Arts, able to infiltrate dreams and conjure up fearsome entities. De Richleau fights back with his own knowledge of occultism and ancient lore. A duel ensues between White and Black Magic, Good and Evil used as weapons. Whenever, subsequently, Dennis Wheatley was asked what he really believed about the supernatural, he would just reply 'Don't meddle!' Few readers will need that warning repeated.

The Duke de Richleau Series

by Dennis Wheatley

Published 26 December 2014

All 11 thrilling Duke de Richleau stories, available in one volume for the first time! Follow the aristocratic adventurer as he spies for the British in WWI, rescues friends from the Soviet Union and battles Nazi occultists in Haiti.

THE PRISONER IN THE MASK
VENDETTA IN SPAIN
THE SECOND SEAL
THREE INQUISITIVE PEOPLE
THE FORBIDDEN TERRITORY
THE DEVIL RIDES OUT
THE GOLDEN SPANIARD
CODEWORD GOLDEN FLEECE
STRANGE CONFLICT
GATEWAY TO HELL
DANGEROUS INHERITANCE
TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER
THE SATANIST

The Duke de Richleau Series Starter

by Dennis Wheatley

Published 14 June 2016

Strange Conflict

by Dennis Wheatley

Published June 1969

Codeword Golden Fleece

by Dennis Wheatley

Published 31 January 1996

Gateway to Hell

by Dennis Wheatley

Published 17 August 1970

Three Inquisitive People

by Dennis Wheatley

Published 10 October 2013

Murder in the rich atmosphere of London's Clubland – here is Dennis Wheatley at his thrilling best in this classic, meticulous whodunnit.

The detective force, always a step ahead of the police force, brings together the connoisseur Duke de Richleau, a husky American millionaire and a young man-about-town on a charge of matricide.

Vendetta in Spain

by Dennis Wheatley

Published 10 October 2013

Spain, 1906. The Duke de Richleau has not yet succeeded his father, and is still the Count de Quesnoy. Anarchism permeates every country in Europe, and not a night passes without groups of fanatics meeting in cellars to plan attempts with knives, pistols or bombs against the representatives of law and order.

A bomb outrage gives de Quesnoy ample cause to vow vengeance on the assassins. His attempt to penetrate anarchist circles in Barcelona nearly costs him his life. In San Sebastian, Granada and Cadiz he hunts and is hunted by them in a ruthless vendetta.

A rich novel packed with true history, subtle intrigue, sudden violence, terrorism, blackmail and suspense, alongside the bitter-sweet romance between gallant young de Quesnoy and the beautiful Condesa Gulia.

Dangerous Inheritance

by Dennis Wheatley

Published 10 October 2013

The Second Seal

by Dennis Wheatley

Published 10 October 2013

Spring 1914. At a masked ball, the Duke de Richleau has an intriguing meeting with a beautiful woman - an incident that was to lead to a series of desperate adventures with a Serbian; a secret; a terrorist society; then as a British secret agent at the Austrian Supreme Headquarters. The capers culminate in the Battle of the Marne – the operation that shattered Germany's chance of victory.

Through the violence, intrigue and hair's-breadth escapes, there runs alongside the story of a great love.

The Prisoner in the Mask

by Dennis Wheatley

Published 31 January 1996

The Forbidden Territory

by Dennis Wheatley

Published 3 March 1988

Dennis Wheatley’s first published novel, introducing his modern trinity of musketeers in the epicurean Duke de Richleau, financier Simon Aron, and the wealthy young American, Rex Van Ryn.

The Duke receives a coded message from his missing friend, Van Ryn who, while hunting for treasure lost during the Soviet takeover of Russia, is now in prison somewhere in that vast country.
Along with the Duke, good friends Simon Aron and Richard Eaton set off on a secret mission to secure his escape. Without official papers they lead a thrilling caper, hunted by the Secret Police, through Siberia and across the plains, mountains and forests of Soviet Russia.

The Golden Spaniard

by Dennis Wheatley

Published 10 October 2013