James M. Downie James M. Downie i(A26845 works by) (a.k.a. James Millar Downie)
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon The Flying Doctor Mystery James M. Downie , London : Frederick Warne , 1954 Z848913 1954 single work children's
1 y separately published work icon The Rocket Range Pilot James M. Downie , London : Frederick Warne , 1952 Z1527194 1952 single work children's fiction children's

'When Nick Craig, his father and a young friend embarked on a schooner bound for Australia, they had little idea of the grim adventures awaiting them. By a pre-arranged plan, several of the passengers aboard the schooner took control of the vessel and forced the captain and others into captivity. Their idea was to bomb and destroy a secret rocket range in the Australian plains with bombs shipped on board from a lonely bay in Palestine.

'On arrival in Australia, Nick and his party, who had fallen foul of the leader of the gang, were forced at the point of a gun to dig their own graves - but were saved at the last moment by one of the gang who proved to be a Secret Service agent. However, this escape was really only the beginning of many thrilling adventures in their combined efforts to stop the gang's dastardly plot to destroy the vital government rocket range.' (from Dustjacket)
1 y separately published work icon Alvacore's Island James M. Downie , London : Blackie , 1951 Z1528356 1951 single work children's fiction children's adventure 'Yielding to the persuasions of a plausible stranger, Captain Alvacore, who one day arrived at the island in the New Hebrides where he and his son Frank run a plantation, Richard Falconer consents to go aboard the Captain's schooner and sail for a mysterious island which is worth claiming for Britain as being rich in uranium. Frank goes with him, also the plantation's Kanakas, all at Alvacore's request. Almost at once it become evident that there is dirty work on hand; what is the mystery of the possession, by one of the schooner's crew, of a cap belonging to the commander of a lost French naval craft? With the co-operation of the famous Air Commodore Gaunt and various other friends, the secret is eventually revealed - and a strange one it is, the centre of a plot which might well have had widespread and tragical results.' (Inside dust jacket)
1 y separately published work icon Gaunt of the Pearl Seas Patrol James M. Downie , London : Chambers , 1950 Z842145 1950 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon The Pirates of Papua James M. Downie , London : Frederick Warne , 1949 Z1322016 1949 single work children's fiction children's adventure Dick Hale is taken aboard a schooner by a group of pirates after capsizing his yacht, and then must depend on a rescue of a different kind.
1 y separately published work icon Gaunt of Pacific Command James M. Downie , London : Frederick Warne , 1948 Z848407 1948 single work children's
1 1 y separately published work icon Mutiny in the Air James M. Downie , London : Blackie , 1943 Z1524921 1943 single work children's fiction children's

A party of 30 English schoolboys on an Empire tour in a 4-engine monoplane discover that the crew are at the command of a gangster, Al Maroni. The crew mutinies and leaves the captain on a Pacific island, taking the boys on to the desolate 'Never Never Land' of Australia to hold for ransom. With the aid of 'the savage blacks', Dale of the Mounted Police, Flying-Officer Flint, and the 'tough young bushman', Terry Tanner, 'the gansters, the desert, and the blacks are defeated'.

(From dust jacket)
1 y separately published work icon The Yellow Raiders James M. Downie , London : Collins , 1940 Z161186 1940 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Skip of the Islands James M. Downie , London : Frederick Warne , 1940 Z1527217 1940 single work children's fiction children's Nineteen-year-old Dick Bradshaw (Skip) is a schoonerman in the island trades. He and his crew depart Sydney, visit the South Pacific and learn about its colonial history, solve the mystery of the murder of Skip's father, and foil gold thieves with the aid of an undercover secret service agent.
1 y separately published work icon The Treasure of the Never-Never James M. Downie , London : Blackie , 1936 Z848820 1936 single work children's fiction children's
2 y separately published work icon Warrigal : The Story of a Wild Horse James M. Downie , London : Hutchinson , 1935 Z1527181 1935 single work children's fiction children's When patrolling the plains with his father, Frank Marlow, of Wooraloo Station, sees a wild stallion. He vows that one day this young roan brumby will be his, and names him Warrigal, after the wild dingo. Frank and Warrigal battle the hardships of station life, including drought and marauding 'wild blacks'. Frank returns to London with his family and Warrigal suffers at the hands of cruel owners. Finally they are reunited in London.
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