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    96 Books (20 Series)
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    January 1959
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    April 2016
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Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain. On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.

As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring. He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.

Full Series List in Order

Amyot Saga

1 - Amyot's Cay (1964)
2 - Blood Amyot (1964)
3 - The Amyot Crime (1965)

Anna Fehrbach Thrillers

1 - Angel from Hell (Jun-2006)
2 - Angel in Red (Nov-2006)
3 - Angel of Vengeance (Jun-2007)
4 - Angel in Jeopardy (Nov-2007)
5 - Angel of Doom (May-2008)
6 - Angel Rising (Dec-2008)
7 - Angel of Destruction (May-2009)
8 - Angel of Darkness (Dec-2009)
9 - Angel in Peril (Dec-2013)

Arms Trade

1 - The Trade (Mar-1998)
2 - Shadows in the Sun (Sep-1998)
3 - Guns in the Desert (Mar-1999)
4 - Prelude to War (Mar-1999)

Berkeley Townsend

1 - To All Eternity (Jul-1999)
2 - The Quest (Sep-2000)
3 - Be Not Afraid (Mar-2001)

Black Majesty

1 - Seeds of Rebellion (Nov-1984)
2 - Wild Harvest (Sep-1985)

Bloody Sun

1 - Bloody Sunrise (Feb-1994)

Caribee of the Hiltons

1 - Caribee/Seas of Passion (Jul-1975)
2 - The Devil's Own (Jul-1975)
3 - Mistress of Darkness (Sep-1976)
4 - Black Dawn (1977)
5 - Sunset (Mar-1978)

China

1 - Crimson Pagoda (Dec-1983)
2 - The Scarlet Princess (Dec-1984)
3 - Red Dawn (Sep-1985)

Dawson Saga

1 - Days of Wine and Roses? (Aug-1981)
2 - The Titans (Mar-1992)
3 - Resumption (Feb-1993)
4 - The Last Battle (Aug-1993)

Jane Elizabeth Digby

1 - Dawn of a Legend (Jun-2010)
2 - Twilight of a Goddess (Jan-2011)

Jessica Jones

1 - The Search (May-2001)
2 - Poor Darling (Nov-2002)
3 - The Pursuit (Dec-2003)
4 - The Voyage (Apr-2003)
5 - The Followers (Apr-2004)
6 - A Fearful Thing (Jul-2005)

Kenya

1 - The High Country (Feb-1988)
2 - The Happy Valley (Apr-1989)

Manu & Emma

1 - Manu (Nov-2011)
2 - Queen of Glory (Jun-2012)

McGann Saga

1 - Old Glory (Jun-1986)
2 - The Sea and the Sand (Mar-1988)
3 - Iron Ships, Iron Men (Sep-1977)
4 - Wind of Destiny (Dec-1987)
5 - Raging Sea, Searing Sky (Jun-1990)
6 - The Passion and the Glory (Feb-1991)

Murdoch Mackinder

1 - The Regiment (Dec-1989)
2 - The Command (Jul-1989)
3 - The Triumph (Dec-1989)

Operations by Jonathan Anders

1 - Operation Destruct (1969)
2 - Operation Manhunt (1970)
3 - Operation Neptune (May-1972)

Pearl of the Orient

1 - Pearl of the Orient (Oct-1988)
2 - Dragon's Blood (Oct-1989)
3 - Dark Sun (Jul-1990)
4 - Singapura (Jul-1990)

Russian Saga

1 - The Seeds of Power (Dec-1995)
2 - The Masters (Jun-1995)
3 - The Red Tide (Nov-1995)
4 - The Red Gods (Mar-1996)
5 - The Scarlet Generation (Dec-1996)
6 - Death of a Tyrant (Aug-1997)

The Sun of Japan

1 - The Sun Rises (May-1984)
2 - The Sun and the Dragon (Jul-1985)
3 - The Sun on Fire (Apr-1986)

Sword of India

1 - Sword of Fortune (Jan-1990)
2 - Sword of Empire (May-1991)

Book List in Order: 96 titles



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    Set in the British Guiana, the plantation heiress Joan Dart, fall in love with the black rebel Jackey Reed. As savage and lusty, here is a story of men and women deeply attracted to each other, yet forbidden to express their passion except in terms o...



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    Catherine Amyot - a pirate's whore who began with a dream and conquered every obstacle to make her dream come true.......



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    Her blood was Winton, her marriage made her Amyot. Beautiful, iron-willed Anne was born to enjoy power. In time she ruled a family, a fortune - an entire island. Here is the powerful and stirring saga of a dynasty - and of a proud and ambitious woman...



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    Haunted by a legend, Pagen Amyot was destined for a life as violent as her infamous ancestors.......



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    Set in the West Indies, a modern paradise enjoying a booming tourist trade, until a scandal is followed by tragedy, and then revolution....






  • When a Russian trawler is mysteriously wrecked off Guernsey in the Channel Islands, British Intelligence wants to investigate because one of their agents was on board. However, the investigation could prove embarrassing since their agent was planning...



  • A Novel of War-Ravaged Poland....



  • When a Polish general disappears from behind the Iron Curtain, British agent Jonathan Anders is assigned to find him....



  • A story of the cold war of the 1950s. It started as the Russians fought their way into the centre of Budapest in January 1945. Five people are thrown together in a nightmare which is to pursue them for the rest of their lives: the girls, one who k...





  • Jonathan Anders is sent on assignment by British Intelligence to locate notes on an invention that will enable man to move about freely underwater....



  • An historical novel of the life of Will Adams, an English adventurer who left Elizabethan Kent to voyage through Indonesia and become the first Englishman to visit Japan, where he became a Samurai after befriending Shogun Iyeyasu....



  • Keiko Hatasune was a hero to his country, an honourable man his parents and his intended, Yoshino, could be proud of. He had survived against all odds the battle with the two American planes - and his body had healed well, ready for combat again. And...



  • 1618, London. The court of King James I. Tom Warner, a lieutenant in the King’s Guard, serves as Governor of the Tower of London, where he lives with his son Edward. When Walter Raleigh returns to London from his international voyages in s...



  • In a dynasty of lusting men and insatiable Women... there were three women with a single all-consuming passion for Edward Warner... YARICO, the sensual native girl who initiated his innocent flesh into the pleasures of pagan lust. She changed him in...






  • A Beautiful, Rapacious Mistress, a Savagely Strong Master -- and a Plantation Seething with Fearful Hatred and Forbidden Lust... The lush sugar plantation of Green Grove was the envy of every planter on the island of Antigua -- just as its breathtak...



  • INFERNAL TRIANGLE GISLANE--Pale, aristocratic, stunningly beautiful, she was raised in luxury--until the discovery of her African blood made her the helpless instrument of savage pleasure for every man who bought her. GEORGINA--The imperious Engl...



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    His Uncle Robert’s death brought Richard Hilton two legacies -- his great slave plantations in Jamaica, and the hatred of his disinherited brother, Tony. The new master of Hillgate vowed to end its shameful history of slave oppression. Whipping wa...



  • Brothers-in-law Jerry McGann and Rod Bascomb find themselves battling for the heart of Marguerite Grahame and for opposing sides in the War Between the States. As the proud captain of the U.S. Montgomery, Jerry McGann sails into New Orleans harbour ...



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    Lord Byron was the most famous, the most scandalous, and most admired man in England early in the 19th century, for love affairs with his boyhood nurse, his half-sister, and numerous married women of aristocracy, not to mention prostitutes, servants,...



  • Jamaica in the late 1800s. The bells toll as a woman dies in childbirth, giving her husband not the son he always longed for, but a daughter called Meg Hilton. Meg grows up into a messy and adventurous girl, forever running around the country...



  • In the gilded heart of Nazi Berlin she was a woman corrupted by love a spy so valued she must be betrayed....



  • Espionage, deceit, love, betrayal and death are all featured in the wartime romance of a Dorset family in Edwardian England, with a brutal war of death and destruction as a backdrop....



  • In 1890, when Constance Baird came to Imperial China, nothing could have prepared her for the strangeness or the splendor of this land and its people. Married to a stern missionary, Constance knew little of life... and even less of love. Her ravishin...



  • It is the year 1860, and Japan is at last being forced out of age-old isolation. A feudal warrior state of exquisite culture and barbaric savagery. Where forces gather to threaten the Shogun - and a new Emperor challenges the samuari. Captain Ralph F...






  • In 1918, the Russians sink the American luxury liner, "Northern Wind," killing shipping magnate Brent Maddox, and his young widow, Brande, sets out to retrieve the fortune in gold and jewels that the ship carried...



  • Based on the life of Haiti's first emperor, this saga follows the fortunes of slave-master Philippe, Seigneur de Mortmain, and the woman who loves him but finds herself drawn toward revolt....



  • She had the pride of a princess -- and the hungers of a woman. Beautiful young Adela Wynne was a woman divided. Her father had been Chinese royalty, her mother an American missionary. Now, after having finished her American education, Adela returned...



  • In the closing years of the nineteenth century, Japan is preparing for war with her mighty neighbours. William Freeman, son of a U.S. officer and a Japanese noblewoman, is drawn back to serve the land of his birth -- fighting brilliantly in the Impe...



  • A gripping tale of romance and adventure set in China in the twenties and thirties when the whole country was torn apart by civil strife. The final book in Christopher Nicole's China trilogy - following from The Crimson Pagoda and The Scarlet Princes...



  • Based on the life of Haiti's first emperor, this saga follows the fortunes of slave-master Philippe, Seigneur de Mortmain, and the woman who loves him but finds herself drawn toward revolt....



  • The sequel to "The Sun and the Dragon" follws Phil Shimadzu into the second world war....



  • Harry McGann, is forced to flee Ireland, falls in love with Elizabeth Bartlett, a shipowner's daughter, and becomes involved with the founding of the American Navy....



  • The Dolittle Raid of April 1942 demonstrated to the world that the Japanese mainland, Tokyo itself, could be successfully attacked by a determined enemy, thus the cry went up for retaliation. The Emperor had said it could never happen and Japanese...



  • When the beautiful Christina Diaz de Obrigar is captured by the cruel and barbaric Colonel Lumbrera during the War of Cuban Independence, Joe McGann vows to fight for her release....






  • In the brave, colourful days of Livingstone & Stanley, two young Europeans from very different back grounds explore the fabled high country of East Africa - and discover paradise....



  • When Felicity Crown, daughter of a British sea captain, is captured by pirates and sold into slavery, Toby McGann, an officer in the U.S. Navy, is determined to rescue her....



  • This saga of war, wealth, power and love, set in the Far East in the early 19th century, where the Dutch and British clash for supremacy and where princes and traders vie for influence and riches among the people....



  • Continuing the saga of colonial days in Africa, this sequel to "The High Country" follows the fortunes of a coffee planter's son and his former servant after World War I. The bond between the two men must stand the test of political change, civil tur...



  • France, 1914. Murdoch Mackinder, Colonel in the Royal Western Dragoon Guards, prepares for active service. But as Mackinder's career as a soldier and strategist, and his happy and successful marriage to his American wife Lee, both prosper, the ...



  • Michael Harrington, Irish desperado, arrives off the shores of India laden with chains, but fortune has much more in store for him than the squalid death of a mutineer. Soon he is involved in the Chinese opium trade and the love of four women....



  • Sedgemoor, Blenheim, Salamanca, Waterloo, Kabul, the Somme...the regiment's battle honours were written in blood and sacrifice. One in a long line of Mackinders who have commanded the regiment, Murdoch Mackinder joins the Royal Western Dragoon Guard...



  • England, 1940. Sir Murdoch Mackinder is placed in charge of a secret intelligence department. Their task is to drop saboteurs into occupied Europe. However, after a lifetime of leading his troops into battle, Mackinder finds it difficult to ...



  • This novel tells of the escapades and adventures that befall Richard Bryant in India after the period of Clive. The hero carves a career as a mercenary soldier during Britain's days of Empire. Bryant becomes an adventurer, in command of French regime...



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  • This saga follows the founding of Singapore and is interwoven with the stories of the people who lived and loved there....



  • The two McGann brothers, Walter and Clive, experience the excitement, hardships, and horrors of World War II as officers in the Royal Navy, while their sister, Joan, trapped in Hong Kong, discovers the savagery of the Japanese conquerors....



  • This seqeul to "Sword of Fortune" evokes the turbulence and savagery of 19th-century India. Laura Dern's son is threatened by the evil Prince Batraj. Shackled to Batraj as his concubine, Laura is forced to repudiate the love of the only man who can s...



  • World War I tears families and friends apart as the British Dawson sons serve with the Royal Navy and the German von Eltz siblings vow to bring about the defeat of England. The year is 1914, Great Britain is at war with Germany. In both the German H...



  • Two young men-- Jack Dawson, a British Royal Navy lieutenant, and Hirada Tanawa, an Imperial Japanese Navy pilot--become friends from 1937 until December 1941, a relationship that will have tragic consequences as their two countries plummet towards w...



  • This novel is the final part of a four part series which began with "Days of Wine and Roses" and continued with "The Titans" and "Resumption". It is concerned with the continuing story of the friendship of two men who are now on opposite sides in Wor...



  • Shipwrecked on the shore of southern Japan in 1861, British Lieutenant Nicholas Barrett is adopted into a culture struggling to determine its attitude toward foreign contact, and he becomes the catalyst in the construction of a navy for the power-hun...



  • Following THE SEEDS OF POWER, the second title in THE RUSSIAN QUARTET saga depicting the overturn of Russian Society during the hundred years between 1853 and 1953. Anna Cromb returns to Russia in 1894 she is plunged into a nightmare world of a Ru...



  • Set in 1911, the latest in a series of sagas depicting the overturn of Russian society between 1853 and 1953....



  • This is the first of a new saga depicting the changes in Russian society between 1853 and 1953. Wounded at the Battle of Balaclava, Lieutenant Colin MacLain finds himself sucked into the world of the Russian aristocracy. Colin finds himself sucked i...



  • From the author of THE SEEDS OF POWER and THE MASTERS, another novel set in Russia. It is 1919 and civil war prevails as the newly installed Communist regime confronts the armies of the dead Tsar. Families are torn apart and Prince Alexei Bolugayevsk...



  • Nazi Germany has invaded Communist Russia, and caught up in this are the surviving members of the Bolugayevski family. Whilst Alexei volunteers for medical duty in Russian hospitals, Joseph Crumb returns on a fact-finding mission, and Pricilla plunge...



  • At the end of World War II Josef Stalin was the undisputed master of Russia. Hated by many, feared by all, increasingly paranoid and megalomaniac, he took upon himself all the credit for the defeat of Nazi Germany, forcing his people to accept that t...



  • Few men at the turn of the century know southern Africa better than James Martingell. He also sells guns to the tribes which can afford them. When he is offered a fortune to deliver weap ons to would-be rebels in the Transvaal, James supposes his for...



  • In 1918, arms dealer James Martingell received a knighthood for equipping the British Army, but the government now wants to shut him down. When he reassumes negotiations with Sheikh Azam ud-Ranatullah, he is denounced as a traitor. But the man sent t...



  • When the Senussi tribesmen of southern Libya, rise in revolt against their Italian masters in the 1920s, their principal problem is obtaining arms and ammunition to fight against a modern army. In their desperation they turn to American soldier of fo...



  • Albania, 1939. Catherine Ames and three friends are on a cycling holiday in the mountains. Looking out across the Adriatic, they glimpse a fleet of Italian ships and suddenly find themselves in the middle of a full-scale invasion. Catherine somehow e...



  • The first in a thrilling new adventure series Berkely Townsend is undercover in Austria, researching the fortifications against Russia. Berkely Townsend meets the beguiling Anna Slovitza and assists her escape from Austrian soldiers; not realising s...



  • Six years after the death of his beloved wife in Serbia, Harry Berkeley is sent undercover to investigate rumours of a new Germany rising from the ashes of the old. He encounters the intriguing and fiercely nationalistic Frederika Lipscheutz, who isn...



  • After a lifetime of espionage and assassination on behalf of the British Government, Berkeley Townsend looks forward to a comfortable retirement, and to enjoy both his second marriage and the company of his daughter Anna, who he has rescued from the ...



  • The first in an explosive new series featuring Detective Jessica Jones Jessica Jones is on an ordinary job protecting cabinet minister Margaret Lewton when events take an extraordinary turn. Seconds before a bomb blast occurs that destroys her client...



  • Sophie Gallagher drives a tour bus on the island of Guernsey, with nothing more important to consider than how to show off the sleepy little island to its best advantage, and perhaps her eventual marriage to her partner, Assistant Harbormaster James ...



  • When an attempt is made to kidnap the only daughter of the Sultan of Kharram and his English wife, their reaction is to get her out of the country as quickly as possible to a safe haven - the home of her maternal grandfather in England. But she still...



  • Detective-Sergeant Jessica Jones is at the peak of her career. Handsome, famous, respected - at the age of thirty-eight she is contemplating retirement from the Special Branch. But she has made many enemies over the years, and now one surfaces from t...



  • When Lady Miranda Lichton determines to marry a wealthy Bolivian rancher, her family is concerned. When they discover that Ramon Cuesta actually grows cocaine on a global scale and is prepared to resort to murder when necessary, they determine to get...



  • On holiday in the Bahamas, Frances Ogilvie meets a strangely attractive man whom she allows to hypnotize her, she supposes as a party trick. But on her return to England she realizes that he has not removed the spell, that she is still under his cont...



  • When Detective Sergeant Jessica Jones of the Special Branch Protection Unit is commanded by her superior to take a month's leave because he feels stress is affecting her judgement, she is both resentful and frustrated; she thinks she is being slowly ...



  • In the jungle a secret can lie undisturbed for decades... In 1942 a plane carrying three male and two female Americans disappeared into the jungles of British Guiana. The plane was en route to make a sightseeing tour of the famous Kaieteur waterfa...



  • A Jessica Jones adventure - When dissolute playboy Jeremy Lenghurst seduces and elopes with the daughter of a Colombian drugs baron, he sets in motion a series of catastrophic events which all but destroys his entire family. Caught up in all this are...



  • Ever thought of retiring to Spain? When famous chef David Lytton sells his London restaurant in order to take early retirement in Spain with his new wife and her golden retriever, he anticipates a life of sun, sea, and sangria. Unfortunately, on the...



  • When in March 1938 Germany invades Austria, all anti-Nazis are immediately rounded up and imprisoned. Prominent amongst these is liberal editor Johann Fehrbach, his Anglo-Irish wife, and his two daughters. But the elder of the girls, seventeen-year-o...



  • The thriller sequel to Angel from Hell Anna Fehrback is not yet twenty-one, the picture of innocent beauty, and a deadly assassin with seven kills to her name. Recruited by the Nazis under threats of reprisals against her family, she has served as a ...



  • The thrilling sequel to Angel in Red - Anna Fehrbach is an MI6 operative in the heart of the Nazi establishment who has just found out about the Final Solution, but convincing her British employers proves next to impossible... Meanwhile, she must org...



  • The thrilling sequel to Angel of Vengeance - In 1943 Nazi Germanys defences are crumbling, and Heinrich Himmler is taking steps to ensure his survival. He employs beautiful but deadly Anna Fehrbach to courier large sums of money across the border int...



  • The thrilling sequel to Angel in Jeopardy - July 1944. In the aftermath of an attempt on Hitlers life, Germany is in chaos, but once again beautiful, deadly Anna Fehrbach is on hand to help maintain the regime. But Anna is not all she seems, and in h...



  • Germany, 1945. With the collapse of the Third Reich and MI6's decision to retire their premier double agent-cum-assassin, it seems the war is finally over for beautiful but deadly Anna Fehrbach, aka the Countess von Widerstand .But Anna is still want...



  • The end of the war has not allowed beautiful but deadly Anna Fehrbach to retire. Working for the SS her principal antagonist was the Soviet Union, and to Joseph Stalin and his henchman Lavrenty Beria she remains the most wanted of all war criminals. ...



  • In 1953 Anna Fehrbach, still remembered as the Countess von Widerstand, is enjoying her Bahamian hideaway, now happily married and contemplating raising a family. It is three years since the last attempt of the Russians to arrest her and take her bac...



  • The romantic adventures of one of history’s most notorious women - Christopher Nicole brings to life the romantic adventures of Jane Elizabeth Digby. Born into one of the wealthiest families in nineteenth-century England, by the age of seventeen sh...



  • The romantic adventures of one of history's most infamous beauties - Nineteenth-century England. Jane Elizabeth Digby is beautiful . . . and notorious. Just twenty-three when her husband, Lord Ellenborough, divorces her for adultery in a cloud of sca...



  • The story of one Englishwoman’s remarkable relationship with an Indian princess at the height of the British Empire... India, 1849. When Emma Hammond is left penniless in India after her husband is murdered by thieves, little does she know that...



  • As the Indian Mutiny takes hold, one woman will establish her place in history for ever . . . India, 1857. Aged just twenty-one, Lakshmi Bai, otherwise known as Manu, the widowed and recently deposed Rani of Jhansi, finds herself embroiled in the dev...



  • In 1949, the Cold War is at its height, the Great Powers only being prevented from shooting at each other by the knowledge that a nuclear exchange would mean the end of civilization. But in the Kremlin, there is an even greater problem: the continued...



  • When, on 16 November 1918, the Maddox Shipping Company liner Northern Wind is torn apart by a massive explosion and sinks in fifteen minutes, she takes with her to the bottom of the sea not only two thousand souls but the world’s greatest private t...



  • Today Georgia is a small country existing in the shadow of Russia, but only 900 years ago the Georgians controlled an empire that stretched from the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean to the Caspian. This was the work of Queen Tamara, w...



  • Adelaide, Queen of Burgundy and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, was one of the most beautiful and courageous women in history. She is renowned as the most prominent European woman of the 10th century and Christopher Nicole brings you the amazing st...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Christopher Nicole has published 96 books.

Christopher Nicole does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Queen of Destiny, was published in April 2016.

The first book by Christopher Nicole, Off White, was published in January 1959.

Yes. Christopher Nicole has 20 series.