Publication Order of The Carpetbaggers Books
| The Carpetbaggers | 1961 |
| The Raiders | 1995 |
Publication Order of The Betsy Books
| The Betsy | 1971 |
| The Stallion | 1996 |
Publication Order of The Predators Books
| The Predators | 1998 |
| The Secret | 2000 |
Publication Order of Madison Dupre Books
| The Looters (With: Junius Podrug) | 2007 |
| The Deceivers (With: Junius Podrug) | 2008 |
| The Shroud (With: Junius Podrug) | 2009 |
| The Curse (With: Junius Podrug) | 2011 |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Never Love a Stranger | 1948 |
| The Dream Merchants | 1949 |
| A Stone for Danny Fisher | 1952 |
| Never Leave Me | 1953 |
| 79 Park Avenue | 1955 |
| Stiletto | 1960 |
| Where Love Has Gone | 1962 |
| The Adventurers | 1966 |
| The Inheritors | 1969 |
| The Pirate | 1974 |
| The Lonely Lady | 1976 |
| Dreams Die First | 1977 |
| Memories of Another Day | 1979 |
| Goodbye, Janette | 1981 |
| Spellbinder | 1982 |
| Descent from Xanadu | 1984 |
| The Storyteller | 1985 |
| The Piranhas | 1991 |
| Tycoon | 1997 |
| Never Enough | 2001 |
| Sin City | 2002 |
| Heat of Passion | 2003 |
| The Betrayers (With: Junius Podrug) | 2004 |
| Blood Royal (With: Junius Podrug) | 2005 |
| The Devil to Pay (With: Junius Podrug) | 2006 |
About Harold Robbins
Harold Robbins (1916 to 1997) was an American novelist, born in New York City, whose fast-moving novels of melodrama, sex and high society made him one of the best-selling writers of all time. He wrote more than 25 bestsellers, including “The Carpetbaggers” (1961), and his reported worldwide sales exceed 750 million copies in 32 languages.
He was born Francis Kane and was raised in Brooklyn by his adoptive father, a pharmacist, and his stepmother. Robbins later gave a different account of his childhood, claiming to have been an orphan brought up in a Catholic boys’ home. He left high school at 15 and worked as an errand boy, a bookies’ runner and an inventory clerk before joining Universal Pictures in 1940, where he rose from clerk to executive and stayed until 1957.
His first novel, “Never Love a Stranger”, was published in 1948. “The Dream Merchants” (1949) drew on his own experience to tell the story of the American film industry from its beginnings to the arrival of sound. “A Stone for Danny Fisher” (1952) became the 1958 Elvis Presley film “King Creole”.
“The Carpetbaggers” has a protagonist who is a loose composite of Howard Hughes and three other businessmen, and moves between the aviation industry and Hollywood. It was filmed in 1964, and part of it supplied the 1966 film “Nevada Smith”. The producer Joseph E. Levine also filmed “Where Love Has Gone” and paid Robbins $1 million in 1963 for the rights to “The Adventurers” before it was published; the novel appeared in 1966 and the film in 1970. Later adaptations include the television miniseries “79 Park Avenue” (1977) and the films “The Betsy” (1978) and “The Lonely Lady” (1983). Robbins also created the ABC television series “The Survivors” (1969 to 1970), which starred Lana Turner.
He returned to two earlier successes late in life with “The Raiders” (1995), a sequel to “The Carpetbaggers”, and “The Stallion” (1996), a sequel to “The Betsy”. Robbins was married three times and spent much of his time on the French Riviera. He died in Palm Springs, California, on 14 October 1997, aged 81, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Novels have continued to appear under his name since his death, written by ghostwriters and based on his notes and unfinished stories. Junius Podrug is credited as co-author of those published from 2004 to 2011, among them the four Madison Dupre books.