THE SERIOUS BOOKS


Too Rich To Live UK hardback Too Rich To Live UK paperback Too Rich To Live US paperback The Dark Side Of Destiny Laura Fitzgerald Raven Trance-Kessler Trance-Russian Trance-Morgan

 

As the Seventies drew to a close, Stanley began to concentrate on more serious books as there was a distinct shift in the popular market towards thrillers and crime novels, particularly in the USA. Whilst Stan's serious books from this period stand up there with the best of them - problems with Publishing Companies conspired against him. His last book "Trance" was a return to the genre and considered by many (this reader included) to be his finest non-comedy work. Originally published under the nom de plume "Richard Kessler" in an attempt to disassociate the author from his Tobin legacy, it was finally published under his own name in 2006. Stan retired from writing shortly afterwards.

You could probably class all of these serious novels as being "The Revenge Series" - as each one deals with revenge as a central plot theme (even though there is no other connection between the books). Quite why they ended up thematically similar I'm not sure, but it was certainly a plot device that Stan liked, and did a grand job of weaving a story around in all of these novels.

TITLE

PUBLISHER

YEAR

ISBN

Too Rich To Live (UK) hardback

Hamlyn

01-Apr-1980

ISBN 978-0600388210

Too Rich To Live (UK) paperback

Hamlyn

10-Dec-1981

ISBN 978-0600201380

Too Rich To Live (USA)

Fawcett Gold Medal

10-Dec-1979

ISBN 978-0449142691

The Dark Side Of Destiny

Fawcett Gold Medal

12-Mar-1982

ISBN 978-0449144565

Laura Fitzgerald

Fawcett Gold Medal

01-Jan-1984

ISBN 978-0449125083

Raven

Lynx

01-Mar-1989

ISBN 978-1558021808

Trance (as Richard Kessler) (Hardback)

Severn House

29-Apr-1993

ISBN 978-0727844262

Транс (as Ричард Кесслер) (Hardback)

Центрполиграф (Center Poligraph)

01-Jan-1997

ISBN 978-5218003487

Trance (Paperback)

Twenty First Century Publishers

01-Feb-2006

ISBN 978-1904433262