His writing is very descriptive and in many works he manages to introduce his characters into real events while meeting real people. A small number of his books were made into films by Hammer, of which the best known is The Devil Rides Out (book 1934, film 1968). In the 1960s his publishers were selling a million copies of his books per year. Four of these 'Crime Dossiers' were published: Murder Off Miami, Who Killed Robert Prentice, The Malinsay Massacre, and Herewith The Clues. The reader had to go through the evidence to solve the mystery before unsealing the last pages of the file, which gave the answer. In the thirties, he conceived a series of whodunit mysteries, presented as case files, with testimonies, letters, pieces of evidence such as hairs or pills. His plots covered the French Revolution (Roger Brook Series), Satanism (Duc de Richleau), World War II (Gregory Sallust) and espionage (Julian Day). He wrote adventure stories, with many books in a series of linked works. His first book, Three Inquisitive People, was not immediately published but his first published novel, The Forbidden Territory, was an immediate success when published in 1933, being reprinted seven times in seven weeks. His prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors in the 1950s and 1960s. Dennis Yates Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was an English author.
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