The Thousand Hands
Denny's first novel and the beginning of the James Mallaby detective series.
Author guide
Norman George Denny (1901–1982) was an English writer whose original fiction ranged from detective, adventure, and spy novels to literary fiction and children's adventure books. He published adult fiction under his own name and as Bruce Norman, and children's fiction as Norman Dale. He also co-authored the historical nonfiction book The Bayeux Tapestry: The Story of the Norman Conquest, 1066. Denny was additionally a prolific French and German translator, but translated works are excluded from this bibliography.
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Denny's first novel and the beginning of the James Mallaby detective series.
The first Norman Dale children's adventure and the beginning of the Peter and Ginger series.
The beginning of the Tim Forest trilogy.
The beginning of the Medenham series.
A representative standalone novel published under Denny's own name.
Read in order
series · complete
A children's adventure series featuring Peter, Ginger, and their companions.
Outside the series
novel · 1931
novel · 1931
novel · 1938
novel · 1947
novel · 1954
historical nonfiction · 1966
children's novel · 1952
children's novel · 1953
children's novel · 1955
children's novel · 1956
children's novel · 1957
children's novel · 1958
children's novel · 1959
children's nonfiction · 1960
children's nonfiction · 1963
children's novel · 1964