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Graydon, Robert Murray

Entry updated 6 January 2022. Tagged: Author.

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(1890-1937) US-born author, long in the UK, of fiction for boys, including several Sexton Blake titles. He also wrote as by Murray Hamilton, Robert Murray and Murray Roberts, most of his work under the last of these names appearing in the Captain Justice sequence. He was the son of the much more prolific William Murray Graydon (1864-1946). [JC/RR]

Robert Murray Graydon

born Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: 20 January 1890

died Brighton, Sussex: 4 December 1937

works

series

Sexton Blake

Captain Justice

  • The Earthquake Maker (London: Amalgamated Press, 1935) as by Murray Roberts [chap: first appeared 15 April-20 May 1933 Modern Boy: in the publisher's Boys' Friend Library series: Captain Justice: pb/uncredited]
  • The Secret Kingdom (London: Amalgamated Press, 1935) as by Murray Roberts [chap: first appeared 18 November 1933-20 January 1934 Modern Boy: in the publisher's Boys' Friend Library series: Captain Justice: pb/uncredited]
  • The Rocketeers (London: Amalgamated Press, 1935) as by Murray Roberts [chap: first appeared 1 July-11 November 1933 Modern Boy: in the publisher's Boys; Friend Library series: Captain Justice: pb/uncredited]
  • The World in Darkness (London: Amalgamated Press, 1935) as by Murray Roberts [chap: first appeared 21 April-30 June 1934 Modern Boy: in the publisher's Boys' Friend Library series: Captain Justice: pb/uncredited]
  • The Weed Men (London: Amalgamated Press, 1936) as by Murray Roberts [chap: first appeared 29 September-22 December 1934 Modern Boy: in the publisher's Boys' Friend Library series: Captain Justice: pb/uncredited]
  • The Raiders of Robot City (London: Amalgamated Press, 1937) as by Murray Roberts [chap: technically an anth as short story is added: first appeared 28 September-21 December 1935 Modern Boy: in the publisher's Boys' Friend Library series: Captain Justice: pb/uncredited]
  • The Ocean Robot (London: Amalgamated Press, 1938) as by Murray Roberts [chap: first appeared 25 April-16 May 1936 Modern Boy: in the publisher's Boys' Friend Library series: Captain Justice: pb/uncredited]
  • The Mystery Planet (London: Amalgamated Press, 1938) as by Murray Roberts [chap: first appeared 1932 Modern Boy: in the publisher's Boys' Friend Library series: Captain Justice: pb/uncredited]
  • The Rival Robots (London: Amalgamated Press, 1938) as by Murray Roberts [chap: first appeared 23 May-8 August 1936 Modern Boy: in the publisher's Boys' Friend Library series: Captain Justice: pb/uncredited]
  • The Gold Raiders (London: Amalgamated Press, 1938) as by Murray Roberts [chap: first appeared 5 June-7 August 1937 Modern Boy: in the publisher's Boys. Friend Library series: Captain Justice: pb/uncredited]
  • The Flying Globes (London: Amalgamated Press, 1939) as by Murray Roberts [chap: first appeared 19 February-21 May 1938 Modern Boy: in the publisher's Boys. Friend Library series: Captain Justice: pb/uncredited]
  • The Outlaw Raiders (London: Amalgamated Press, 1939) as by Murray Roberts [chap: first appeared 17 Sept-3 December 1938 Modern Boy: in the publisher's Boys. Friend Library series: Captain Justice: pb/uncredited]
  • The City of Secrets (London: Amalgamated Press, 1939) as by Murray Roberts [chap: first appeared 25 February-17 May 1939 Modern Boy: in the publisher's Boys. Friend Library series: Captain Justice: pb/uncredited]
  • Captain Justice in the Land of Monsters (London: Amalgamated Press, 1939) as by Murray Roberts [chap: first appeared 3 October 1936-2 January 1937 Modern Boy: in the publisher's Boys. Friend Library series: Captain Justice: pb/uncredited]

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