• No Nightingales (1949; novel)
• The Far Tortuga: a biography for boys of William Dampier, pirate and explorer (1936; nonfiction)
• Gilt Kid (1953; novel)* The Golden Bubble
*Gold in the Streets
*(published together in 1965 as The Streetwalker)
• Captain Dampier at home: with some account of Dampier as he sailed away again (1934; short biography for juveniles)
• Murder Most Private (1953; mystery)
• Naked Warriors (1938; adventure novel set during Russian Civil War of 1918; filmed in 1955)**