Plutonium Police
Plutonium Police was a paperback series published by Erich Pabel Verlag from 1978 to 1980 with a total of 28 volumes.
The series started on April 28, 1978 with the subtitle Der neue Atomkrimi: Red hot, up-to-date, informative . The books were written by German authors under English-sounding pseudonyms. The first author was Willi Schoenebeck , who wrote at least two novels under the publishing pseudonym Eliot Spencer. Further pseudonyms and the corresponding authors were:
- B. Davies = Helmut Kobusch (1 title)
- Al Frederic = Holger Friedrichs (3 titles)
- Kelly Kevin = Susanne Wiemer (2 titles)
- Steve McCoy = Uwe Erichsen (1 title)
- Fred McMason = Manfred Wegener (1 title)
- W. Todd = Peter Theodor Krämer (2 titles)
The volumes were published every four weeks, the length was about 160 pages and the price 3.80 DM. The cover pictures were designed by Nikolai Lutohin.
In terms of content, the volumes moved in the border area between crime thriller , techno thriller and science fiction . Each case involved a case that had to do with some form of nuclear technology and was solved by the six agents of the Plutonium Police , who came from six different countries.
Track list
| No. | title | Author name | year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Plutonium bomb alarm | Eliot Spencer | 1978 |
| 02 | Lotus 7 secret society | Eliot Spencer | 1978 |
| 03 | Point target nuclear power plant | Eliot Spencer | 1978 |
| 04 | Radiation death in Tokyo | Eliot Spencer | 1978 |
| 05 | The critical point | Eliot Spencer | 1978 |
| 06 | Atomic diamonds | Eliot Spencer | 1978 |
| 07 | Death job B 32 | Eliot Spencer | 1978 |
| 08 | The killer satellite | Eliot Spencer | 1978 |
| 09 | Atoll of no return | Eliot Spencer | 1978 |
| 10 | Iceberg secret project | Eliot Spencer | 1978 |
| 11 | The disposal companies | Eliot Spencer | 1978 |
| 12 | Atomic alarm on the Ganges | Eliot Spencer | 1979 |
| 13 | Target Poseidon | Fred McMason | 1979 |
| 14th | Nuclear explosion murder plan | Eliot Spencer | 1979 |
| 15th | Death in the White House | Eliot Spencer | 1979 |
| 16 | Shining gold | Eliot Spencer | 1979 |
| 17th | Death came to Florence | Al Frederic | 1979 |
| 18th | The bomb threat | Kelly Kevin | 1979 |
| 19th | SOS - atomic jet in danger | W. Todd | 1979 |
| 20th | Operation Omega | Steve McCoy | 1979 |
| 21st | Taiwan death circle | Al Frederic | 1979 |
| 22nd | GAU alarm | Eliot Spencer | 1979 |
| 23 | Nuclear attack on Rio | W. Todd | 1979 |
| 24 | Deployment code CERN | Al Frederic | 1980 |
| 25th | The atomic trap | Eliot Spencer | 1980 |
| 26th | The War of the Eggheads | Eliot Spencer | 1980 |
| 27 | Grid square of death | B. Davies | 1980 |
| 28 | Operation nuclear ship | Kelly Kevin | 1980 |
Web links
- Plutonium Police , Internet Speculative Fiction Database Title List
- Plutonium Police on Trivialitas - Forum for Popular Culture (PDF)
- Plutonium Police , list of titles with covers on booklet info
Individual evidence
- ^ Jörg Weigand: pseudonyms: a lexicon: aliases of the authors of German-language narrative literature. 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3526-2 .