Friend's thrillers were written under the
pen name Owen Fox Jerome. He also used the pen names Ford Smith & Frank Johnson for his science fiction novels, and the pseudonym Sergeant Saturn as editor.
Science fiction •
The Kid From Mars (1948)
Disney approached Oscar J. Friend just after
World War II, planning to make this novel into a musical with
Danny Kaye, but the film plans fell through due to a change in Kaye's retirement plans. The film rights to the book were again optioned by Disney in the 1990s. •
Of Jovian Build (1938) •
The Worms Turn (1940) •
The Stolen Spectrum (1940s) •
The Water World (1941) •
The Molecule Monsters (1942, 1950) •
Roar of the Rocket (1950) •
The Star Men (1953)
Westerns •
Click of Triangle T (1925) published first as a novel, then produced as a film by
Universal Pictures, starring
Hoot Gibson •
The Round Up (1924) •
The Bullet Eater (1925) •
The Wolf of Wildcat Mountain (1926) •
Gun Harvest (1927, republished 1948) •
Bloody Ground (1928) •
The Mississippi Hawk (1929) •
The Hawk of Hazard (1929) •
The Maverick (1930) •
Half Moon Ranch (1931) •
The Range Maverick (1934) •
Without Benefit of Bullets (1941) •
The Wedding Gift (1943) •
Oklahoma Gun Song (1944) • ''Love's Gun Doctor'' (1944) •
Gun Trail to Glory (1940s) •
Betty of the Lazy W (1940s) •
The Range Doctor (1948) •
Guns of Powder River (first published under this title in the UK in 1950) [republished in 1963 in the US as
Action at Powder River under the pen name Ford Smith] •
The Last Raid (1952) •
Lobo Brand (1954)
Thrillers •
The Hand Of Horror (1927) •
The Red Kite Clue (1928) •
Domes of Silence (1929) •
The Golf Course Murders (1929) published in the U.S. and the U.K. •
The Murder at Avalon Arms (1931) published in the U.S. and the U.K. •
The Cat and the Fiddle (19__) •
Murder - As Usual (1942) •
Shadow Justice (1942) •
The Corpse Awaits (1946) •
Death Script (19__) •
A Night at Club Bagdad (1950) •
Double Life (1959) •
The Five Assassins (1958) •
Leave Everything to Me (1959) ==Anthologies co-edited by Oscar J. Friend==