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STANLEY MORGAN

1929 - 2018

Writing as: Stanley Morgan

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According to Wikipedia: "Stanley Morgan (10 November 1929 – 24 August 2018) was an English writer and actor. He wrote fiction, in the comedy and thriller genres and had more than 40 books published between 1968 and 2006.

Originally an actor, Morgan had many jobs as a young man, including sewing machine salesman, debt collector and bank clerk. In 1951, Morgan emigrated to Canada where he spent some time working in the Bank of Nova Scotia. In 1955, he emigrated again, this time to Southern Rhodesia. He resumed his acting career there and was sponsored to return to London after winning a Best Actor award. Upon returning to London, Morgan featured mostly in voice-overs ("Mullardability" the documentary he voiced for Mullard was nominated for the Special Film BAFTA in 1970), although he did have a small role in the James Bond film Dr. No playing the Concierge in the casino who first introduces Sean Connery as James Bond.[4] Most of his acting credits were in second-feature crime shorts filmed at Merton Park Studios.

Whilst between acting jobs in the late 1960s, Morgan began to write seriously and his first novel The Sewing Machine Man was published in 1968. Allegedly autobiographical, the novel revolved around the character Russ Tobin and Morgan went on to write a further 18 novels in the series. The latest of the Russ Tobin novels was published in 2005 after Morgan came out of retirement, mainly due to renewed interest in his work via the internet."



Series Books
 
Michael Morgan Octopus Hill (1970)
  Mission To Katuma (1973)
 
Other Blow for Gabriel Horn (1977)
  Come Again Courier [Tobin, Russ] (1972)
  The Courier [Tobin, Russ] (1971)
  The Dark Side of Destiny (1982)
  The Debt Collector [Tobin, Russ] (1970)
  Fly Boys [Fly Boys] (1974)
  The Fly Boys in London [Fly Boys] (1975)
  Hard Up [Tobin, Russ] (1977)
  Here Comes Tobin [Tobin, Russ] (1977)
  Inside Albert Shifty (1977)
  Laura Fitzgerald (1983)
  Randy Comfort Rise Again [Comfort, Randy] (1977)
  Raven (1989)
  The Rise of Randy Comfort [Comfort, Randy] (1976)
  The Russ Tobin Bedside Guide to Smoother Seduction [Tobin, Russ] (1976)
  Russ Tobin in Hollywood [Tobin, Russ] (1978)
  Russ Tobin Up Tight [Tobin, Russ] (1977)
  The Sewing Machine Man [Tobin, Russ] (1968)
  Sky-jacked [Fly Boys] (1976)
  Tobin Among the Stars [Tobin, Russ] (1979)
  Tobin Down Under [Tobin, Russ] (1976)
  Tobin for Hire [Tobin, Russ] (1975)
  Tobin Goes Cuckoo [Tobin, Russ] (2005)
  Tobin in Las Vegas [Tobin, Russ] (1975)
  Tobin in Paradise [Tobin, Russ] (1974)
  Tobin in Tahiti [Tobin, Russ] (1976)
  Tobin in Trouble [Tobin, Russ] (1974)
  Tobin on Safari [Tobin, Russ] (1973)
  Tobin Takes Off [Tobin, Russ] (1973)
  Too Rich to Live (1979)
  Trance (2006)