17th March 1931 - 20th May 2017
Many thanks to Pat's wife Sue for the following biography plus photos. Pat Owen was born on St Patrick’s Day, 17 March 1931, the second son of Henry and Violet Owen. When the darkness of world war spread across Europe, Pat and his brother were evacuated to Loughborough, where they were separated and stayed with two different families.
After the war, he was offered an art scholarship but family circumstances prevented him from taking this up. He was called up for national service in the RAF - and it was here that his life long interest in flying and aeroplanes began in earnest. When he returned home he worked as a sign writer for a short time to fund his course at Brighton Art College.
Pat at work on a PAN cover namely 'Battle for Inspector West'
Walking one evening through the smog-laden streets of post-war London, Pat decided to leave the country for sunnier shores, taking a job as art director in Kenya, working for an ex-US army officer. When he returned he was poached by the art director of Pan Books to return to London to become one of their top illustrators for the new and expanding market of paperback books, illustrating the original James Bond books and novels by other famous authors of the day.
A bibliography of PAN book cover artworks painted by Pat (a work in progress!)
1958
	Kings Go Forth Home Before Dark A Wren Called Smith Fiesta
	1959
The Quickness of the Hand
1960
	Casino Royale Dr. No Moonraker Live and Let Die From Russia with Love The Case of the Grinning Gorilla The Wings of Night
	1961
Goldfinger The Power-House The Galton Case The Dam Busters A Town Like Alice Diamonds are Forever A Long Hard Look The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Mixed Company The Mark Battle for Inspector West Sequel to Boldness The Greatest Raid of All Damned Shall be Desire Henderson the Rain King The Woman in the Woods
1962
	The Dark Road Narvik Landfall The Power of Roses The India-Rubber Man The Fabulous Showman The Devil's Advocate The Lion The Devil in Buck's County Dangerous Silence The General The Sea Shall Not Have Them Two Under the Indian Sun When the Kissing Had to Stop The Full Treatment Encore Clotilde Of Whales and Men The Chequer Board The Losers The Eight of Swords Bang to Rights The Ship that Died of Shame Descent of Venus Dieppe Raid on St. Nazaire The Virgin from Kwan-Tung The Woman in the Woods Ritual in the Dark Parcels for Inspector West The Run for Home Death Against the Clock Covenant with Death (1) The Mirror Room The Spanish Pimpernel No Name in the Street Seven Men at Daybreak
	1963
Covenant with Death (2) The Silent People Assault on the Queen The Travels of Jamie McPheeters The Hell Bent Kid Daughter of Silence Second Victory Séance on a Wet Afternoon The Passing of Evil Inspector West Leaves Town Heat Wave in Berlin The Young Lions Anzio Lonely Road The Thirty-Nine Steps Anarchists in Love The Riddle of the Sands Ruined City No Highway The Big Story Gently Floating Inspector West Takes Charge A Battle is Fought to be Won The Sands of Kalahari The Feud The Proud American Boy
1964
	Murderer's Fen The Castle Inn The Violent Season Time is an Ambush The Waiting Game The Pan Jack London Diecast Inspector West at Home HMS Leviathan Marazan The Long Walk Death Trap Pastoral Inspector West at Bay Puzzle for Inspector West Inspector West Kicks Off I'm Coming Virginia The Loser The Overlanders Battle for Inspector West A Gun for Inspector West Strike for Death The Wind of the Sea A Prince for Inspector West Bony and the White Savage Death Trap The Heart of the Storm Mr Standfast The Ravine
	1965
Send Superintendent West Death in Cold Print Accident for Inspector West The Will of the Tribe Island in the Sun Threshold Pied Piper The Death of Achilles I Return The Lovely Sergeant Policeman's Dread The Big Fisherman The Robe What Happened to the Corbetts? The Little White God Who Was Then the Gentleman? Odette
1966
	The Flowers of the Forest Inspector West Cries Wolf I, John Mordaunt Kid with a Colt The Witches In this House of Brede On the Beach Up the Junction The Man from Cherokee Strip Murder ,London-New York The Ragman's Daughter The Trap When the Lion Feeds The Genial Stranger So Disdained Green Light The Miracle Flower The Collector The Finsbury Lot A Plague of Dragons Gently Sahib
	1967
Holiday for Inspector West The Privateer Old St Paul's The Man in the Mews The Children of the New Forest Doctor Thorne The Sea Shall Not have Them Madonna of the Seven Hills Green River Marshal The Valley Gunfight at Nolan's Canyon Old Wives Tale Dead or Alive Pay off in Lead Holiday for Inspector West Only Lovers Left Alive Paragon Street Mr Perrin and Mr Train The Ashes of Loda
1968
	One of Our Submarines Stagecoach to Concho Evergreen Gallant Light on Lucretia A Health Unto His Majesty The Goldsmith's Wife The Mule on the Minaret The Sceptre and the Rose
	1969
Here Lies our Sovereign Lord A Time Too Soon The Wandering Prince Daughter of Satan

1971
	The Italian Woman