title: Edmund Wallace Hildick
text: # Edmund Wallace Hildick
  
  Edmund Wallace Hildick (1925–2001) was a prolific children's book author, who wrote under the name E. W. Hildick. He wrote, amongst others, the Ghost Squad, Jim Starling, Birdy Jones, Jack McGurk and Lemon Kelly series.
  
  ## Background
  
  He was born in Bradford, England in 1925. After two years service in the RAF, he became a secondary school teacher, then a writer, before moving to the United States to become editor of a literary magazine. He was one of the very few British juvenile authors of his generation to achieve success in America.
  
  He started writing while he was a teacher in a Secondary Modern school at Dewsbury, in the West Riding of Yorkshire in England, his intended audience being "tough, modern kids similar to the ones I teach". He died in London England.
  
  ## Series
  
  ### Jim Starling
  
  * Jim Starling (1958)
  * Jim Starling and the Agency (1958)
  * Jim Starling and the Colonel (1958)
  * Jim Starling's Holiday (1960)
  * Jim Starling and the Spotted Dog (1963)
  * Jim Starling Goes To Town (1963)
  * Jim Starling Takes Over (1963)
  
  ### McGurk Mystery
  
  * The Nose Knows (1963)
  * Dolls in Danger (1974; aka Deadline for McGurk)
  * The Case of the Condemned Cat (1975)
  * The Case of the Nervous Newsboy (1976)
  * The Great Rabbit Robbery (1976; aka "The Great Rabbit Rip-Off")
  * The Case of the Invisible Dog (1977)
  * The Case of the Secret Scribbler (1978)
  * The Case of the Phantom Frog (1979)
  * The Case of the Treetop Treasure (1980)
  * The Case of the Snowbound Spy (1980)
  * The Case of the Bashful Bank Robber (1981)
  * The Case of the Four Flying Fingers (1981)
  * Mcgurk Gets Good and Mad (1982)
  * The Case of the Felon's Fiddle (1982)
  * The Case of the Slingshot Sniper (1983)
  * The Case of the Muttering Mummy (1986)
  * The Case of the Wandering Weathervanes (1988)
  * The Case of the Vanishing Ventriloquist (1989)
  * The Case Of The Purloined Parrot (1990)
  * The Case of the Desperate Drummer (1993)
  * The Case of the Fantastic Footprints (1994)
  * The Case of the Absent Author (1995)
  * The Case Of The Wiggling Wig (1996)
  
  ### McGurk Fantasy
  
  * The Case of the Dragon in Distress (1991)
  * The Case of the Weeping Witch (1992)
  
  ### Birdy Jones
  
  * Birdy Jones (1963)
  * Birdy and the Group (1968)
  * Birdy Swings North (1969)
  * Birdy in Amsterdam (1970)
  * Birdy Jones and the New York Heads (1974)
  
  ### Lemon Kelly
  
  * Meet Lemon Kelly (1963)
  * Lemon Kelly Digs Deep (1964)
  * Lemon Kelly and the Home Made Boy (1968)
  
  ### Louie
  
  * Louie's Lot (1965)
  * Louie's S.O.S (1968)
  * Louie's Snowstorm (1974)
  * Louie's Ransom (1978)
  
  ### Questers
  
  * The Questers (1966)
  * The Questers and the Whispering Spy (1967)
  
  ### Crown books, one crown
  
  * Back with Parren (1968)
  * Here Comes Parren (1968)
  
  ### Ghost Squad
  
  * 1. Ghost Squad Breaks Through (1984)
  * 2. Ghost Squad and Halloween Conspiracy (1985)
  * 2. Ghost Squad and the Prowling Hermits (1987)
  * 3. The Ghost Squad Flies Concorde (1985)
  * 6. The Ghost Squad and the Menace of the Malevs (1988)
  * Ghost Squad and the Ghoul of Grunberg (1986)
  
  ### Felicity Snell Mystery
  
  * The Purloined Corn Popper (1997)
  * The Serial Sneak Thief (1997)
  
  ### Alison McNair
  
  * The Active-Enzyme Lemon-Freshened Junior High School Witch (1973)
  * The Top-Flight Fully-Automated Junior High School Girl Detective (1978)
  
  ## Novels
  
  * The Boy At the Window (1960)
  * Bed and Work (1962)
  * Mapper Mundy's Treasure Hunt (1963)
  * A Town On the Never (1963)
  * Lunch with Ashurbanipal (1965)
  * Calling Questers Four (1967)
  * Lucky Les (1967)
  * Time Explorers, Inc (1967)
  * Manhattan Is Missing (1969)
  * Monte Carlo Or Bust! (1969)
  * Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969)
  * Top Boy At Twisters Creek (1969)
  * The Prisoners of Gridling Gap (1971)
  * The Doughnut Dropout (1972)
  * Kids Commune (1972)
  * Bracknell's Law (1975)
  * The Weirdown Experiment (1976)
  * A Cat Called Amnesia (1976)
  * Vandals (1977)
  * The Loop (1977)
  * The Memory Tap (1989)
  * My Famous Father (1990)
  * Hester Bidgood (1994)
  
  ## Non-fiction
  
  * Word for Word: The Rewriting of Fiction (1965)
  * Writing With Care (1967)
  * A Close Look at Television and Sound Broadcasting (1967)
  * Thirteen Types of Narrative (1968)
  * Children and Fiction (1970)
  