Authors Kinr - Ky
Kinrade, Kim
Rockets of the Reich. BainBridge Books, 2000. 330 pages
Hitler and the SS formulate a plan to devastate the United States with a rocket attack during World War II. To carry out the plan, the Nazis set up a rocket base on a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia. An officer of the US Coast Guard and a Canadian army veteran find an unlikely ally in a German U-boat commander as they struggle to foil the plan.
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
Captains Courageous. Nelson Doubleday, 1896. 224 pages
Filmed in 1937 and 1977. Set on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, this story of the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon who must prove his worth aboard an American fishing schooner admirably captures the day-to-day workings of a 19th-century fisherman. An ageless tale that reads well.
The Day's Work. Doubleday & McClure, 1898 431 pages
Stories: The Ship That Found Herself; The Devil and the Deep Sea; Bread Upon the Waters; non-nautical stories.
The Day's Work, part II. Scribner, 1905. 310 pages
Stories: The Wreck of the Visigoth; The Lang Men O' Larut; Brugglesmith; non-nautical tales.
Traffics and Discoveries. Doubleday, Page & Co, 1904. 363 pages
Stories: Their Lawful Occassions - Parts I and II; Steam Tactics; non-nautical tales.
Simple Simon. Macmillan, 1910. 23 pages
Short story featuring Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada. Published later as one of the stories in the author's "Rewards and Fairies".
The collected poems of Rudyard Kipling. Wordsworth Editions, 1994. 880 pages
Nautical poetry: Sestina of the Tramp- Royal; The Liner She's A Lady; The "Mary Gloster"; The Ballad of the "Bolivar"; The Merchantmen; "Poor Honest Men"; White Horses; Song of the Wise Children; The Second Voyage; Mine Sweepers; The Wet Litany; My Boy Jack.
Kneale, Matthew (1960- )
English Passengers. Nan A. Talese, 2000. 446 pages
Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley wants only to smuggle a little tobacco, brandy, and French pornography from the Isle of Mann to a secluded beach in England. Yet somehow in the process, he and his crew end up weighing anchor for Australia. Worse, they're forced to carry three temperamental Englishmen bound for Tasmania on a mission to discover the exact location of the Garden of Eden.
Klingman, Lawrence L. (1918-1986) and Green, Gerald (1922-2006)
His Majesty O'Keefe. Scribner, 1950. 356 pages
A novel based on the true history of David O'Keefe, who built a fortune and empire on the Pacific island of Yap.
Knight, Frank Edgar (1905-1998)
Acting Third Mate. Nelson, 1954. 256 pages
A fairly routine story of a young apprentice promoted to Third Mate, having some adventures along the way.
The Sea Chest: stories of adventure at sea. Collins, 1960. 128 pages
Collection of stories and short essays with the fiction featuring adolescent male protagonists. Includes four post-WW II stories set aboard the British tramp HOPEWELL, centering about the ship's cadets, five set between 1700 and 1900, and one Viking raid. For young readers, but good fun for all.
Knox, William (Bill) (1928-1999)
Books below may be shelved under his name or any of three noms de plume (Michael Kirk, Robert MacLeod and Noah Webster). Laird mysteries more likely under Michael Kirk and the Carrick books under Knox's own name
Andrew Laird marine insurance investigator mysteries:
All Other Perils. Doubleday, 1975 160 pages.
Dragonship. Doubleday, 1976. 174 pages
When the freighter VELELLA survives a fire off the coast of Denmark Andrew Laird is sent to handle the insurance payoff, but a routine assignment turns sinister when a charred body is found in the hold, along with two firebombs and the burned remains of a replica Viking ship. A terrorist group, the New World Revolution, claims responsibility for the fire, but Laird finds out otherwise, with the help of a charming Danish policewoman.
Salvage Job. Doubleday, 1979. 184 pages
Published under the Michael Kirk pseudonym.
Cargo Risk. Doubleday, 1980. 177 pages
Published under the Michael Kirk pseudonym. Marine insurance investigator Andrew Laird sorts out why containers holding two million dollars' worth of medical supplies according to the cargo manifest actually have only worthless scrap lumber.
Mayday From Malaga. Doubleday, 1983. 179 pages
Trouble is getting to be a bad habit with Andrew Laird, even in paradise. His latest case finds the marine insurance inspector in sunny Spain on what he had assumed would be a totally routine investigation. There is never anything routine about danger-especially when it involves a half-submerged freighter, a ruthless shipping tycoon, a mysterious cargo.and more than one corpse.
A Cut in Diamonds. Doubleday, 1986. 176 pages
Published under the Michael Kirk pseudonym.
Witchline. Doubleday, 1988. 178 pages
A washing machine from a cargo that was supposedly lost near the Jersey coast appears in Spain, and marine insurance investigator Andrew Laird realizes the importance of the case when the man who meets him at the airport is murdered. Published under the Noah Webster pseudonym.
Scottish Fisheries Protection Officer Webb Carrick mysteries:
Blacklight. Doubleday, 1967. 188 pages
Figurehead (U.K. title: "The Klondyker"). Doubleday, 1968. 189 pages
Blueback. Doubleday, 1969. 186 pages
Seafire. Doubleday, 1970. 184 pages
Stormtide. Doubleday, 1973. 157 pages
Whitewater. Doubleday, 1974. 179 pages
The traditional wedding flag is flying as the cruiser MARLIN enters Port MacFarlane on the west coast of Mull. But Port MacFarlane, a small and prosperous lobster fishing base, is no peaceful haven and the wedding flag becomes a signal which marks the start of murder and violence. Chief Officer Carrick discovers a maze of blackmail and threats in which death is the payment waiting those who seek too many answers.
Hellspout. Doubleday, 1976. 176 pages
Witchrock. Doubleday, 1977. 185 pages
Bombship. Doubleday, 1980. 182 pages
When a sunken WW II ammunition ship starts disintegrating and releasing its deadly cargo near a fishing village on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, the fisheries protection cruiser MARLIN is sent to the scene to help deal with the problem -- and so 1st officer Carrick and Captain Shannon can secretly investigate reports of modern-day piracy.
Bloodtide. Doubleday, 1982. 186 pages
MARLIN is sent to Port Ard to investigate a warning sent by an old drunk who then turns up dead, apparently by accident. Investigating the death, Shannon is injured, leaving Carrick in charge of MARLIN, and a web of murder involving a Soviet fish factory ship that may be spying on the British.
Wavecrest. Doubleday, 1985. 181 pages
Given command of the patrol launch TERN, off the Western Isles, Carrick encounters an oil slick, and the bodies of a couple that owned a lighthouse on one of the islands. As he investigates, the boat repair yard at Dumbrach burns to the ground, and yet another body is found in it. Carrick sets out to discover whether the bodies are related to an oil magnate in the area or a long buried monastic treasure.
Dead Man's Mooring. Doubleday, 1988. 180 pages
Carrick, and TERN are sent to quell trouble at a fishing village on Skye where a Canadian developer who is establishing a fish farm has turned the natives against him because of the roughshod methods of his employees. Then a dead man turns up on a warning buoy in the area, and divers discover a dynamited yatch just offshore.
The Grey Sentinels. Doubleday, 1962. 185 pages
SANCTUARY ISLE in UK. Glaswegian police detectives Colin Thane and Phil Moss investigate the murder of the caretaker of an island bird sanctuary off the West Highland Coast.
Kobryn, A. P.
Poseidon's Shadow. Rawson, Wade, 1979. 243 pages
Renegade US ballistic missile sub ADRESTEIA goes up against the Pentagon, the Soviets and an American killersub. Skipper intends to expose nasty military scandal, but must stay alive in the meantime.
Köepf, Michael
The Fisherman's Son. Broadway Books, 1998. 293 pages
As Neil Kruger clings to a liferaft during a fierce storm recalls his life of commercial fishing off the northern California coast.
Koller, Jackie French
The Last Voyage of the Misty Day. Atheneum, 1992. 154 pages
Having reluctantly moved to Maine after her father's death in Manhattan, fourteen-year-old Denise forges a healing friendship with a boat owner surrounded by considerable mystery. For young readers.
Korel, Charles
Full Alert. Kensington, 1989. 286 pages
The Command One, America's most sophisticated submarine, is pursued by twin Soviet attack subs while en route to the Persian Gulf and Captain Donald Smith is faced with a choice between the safety of his country and the lives of his crew.
Krauss, Bruno [pseud. Kenneth Bulmer]
Seawolf series:
Steel Shark. Kensington, 1978. 175 pages
Story of U-boat commander Baldur Wolz in action in the North and South Atlantic during 1940, commanding a new supersub.
Shark North. Kensington, 1978. 171 pages
Story of U-Boat U45 in action in the North Sea and Norway during the winter of 1940. Wolz is on a misson to land a spy in a Norwegian fjord, and winds up in command of another submarine.
Shark Pack. Kensington, 1978. 156 pages
Shark Hunt. Kensington, 1980. 160 pages
Shark Africa. Kensington, 1980. 156 pages
Shark Raid. Kensington, 1982. 159 pages
Shark America. Kensington, 1982. 120 pages
Shark Trap. Kensington, 1982. 124 pages
Krutein, Manfred G. (1917-2002)
Hitler's Last Gasp : the Miracle Weapon. Amador, 1995. 193 pages
Encounter between an American OSS officer, a German U-Boat commander and a Nazi SS officer, who wants to become Hitler's successor. They fight for control of a super weapon, directed at the U.S. East Coast.
Kubeck, James.
The Calendar Epic: A Novel of the Merchant Marine. Putnam's, 1956. 318 pages
Set during World War 2 on the West Coast and in the South Pacific and New Guinea. An account of the C-2 freighter CALENDAR EPIC's first -- and last -- voyage.
Kyne, Peter B. (1880-1957)
Cappy Ricks, or the Subjugation of Matt Peasley. Grossett & Dunlap, 1915. 349 pages
Cappy Ricks is a crusty yet soft-hearted Scots sea captain, a real go-getter, who owns the Dollar Steamship Lines.
Captain Scraggs: or, The Green Pea Pirates . Grossett & Dunlap, 1919. 308 pages
This sea yarn recounts the adventures of three rapscallion sea-faring men,—Captain Scraggs, owner of the green vegetable freighter Maggie, Gibney the mate and McGuffey, the engineer. Set in San Francisco
Cappy Ricks Retires, but that doesn't keep him from coming back stronger than ever. Cosmopolitan, 1922. 442 pages
Cappy Ricks Comes Back. Kinsey, 1934. 335 pages
The Cappy Ricks Special. Kinsey, 1935. 276 pages
A short story collection.
Kytle, Ray
Last Voyage. Dell, 1979. 219 pages
Two couples, off the Mexican coast in a sailing yacht, are suddenly attacked by modern-day pirates, who board for a day of rape, torture and murder. Sad to say, this kind of stuff happens in the Caribbean on a regular basis. U.K. title: Sea Stalk.