Captain W.E. Johns wrote five books and two long stories for adult readers about Steeley - full name Deeley Montfort Delaroy -, an ex-war pilot, (autobiographically!) disappointed in the attitude of the British society towards World War I Royal Flying Corps pilots, to whom their country owed so much indeed. In the first book Steeley is like Robin Hood, but later he starts to work for -of course- the well known Raymond at Scotland Yard, together with his two friends Tubby Wilde, whom he knows from the war, and Brian Ballantyne, a young newspaper reporter.

In England five books were published:

1. Sky high - February 1936
2. Steeley flies again - June 1936
3. Murder by Air - August 1937
4. The Murder at Castle Deeping - May 1938
5. Wings of Romance - February 1939

The two long stories are:

* The missing Page - The Thriller, October 16 1937
In the Netherlands published as De Verdwenen Bladzijde, I.B.A. 1993
* Nazis in the New Forest - War Thriller, April 27 1940

Johns intended to combine these two stories into one book, but he rewrote Nazis in the New Forest (with Steeley's surname being written as Deleroy) and published it as a book itself: Sinister Service (1942). Even Steeley's and Tubby's names were changed into Lance Lovell and Rodney Lovell!

Dutch Steeley books by "De Ster", Antwerp, not dated, early fifties:

1. Een ontstellend avontuur
2. Steeley begint opnieuw
3. Luchtpiraten
4. Steeley op speciaal onderzoek
5. Mijn laatste avontuur

Details on these titles can be found in the Captain W.E. Johns Catalogus.

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