Herbert Adams (novelist)
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Herbert Adams (1874–1958) was an English writer of fifty 'cosy'
mystery novels Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as s ...
, 28 featuring the detective Roger Bennion, a golfer and amateur sleuth whose cases are often set in or around
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ing competitions; and 9 feature Jimmie Haswell, a London lawyer. He also wrote short stories, humorous verse and two other mystery novels under the pseudonym ''Jonathan Gray''.


As 'Jonathan Gray'

*'Safety Last' (1934) *'The Owl' (1937)


As Herbert Adams


Jimmie Haswell Novels

*'The Secret of Bogey House' (1924) *'The Crooked Lip' (1926) *'The Queen's Gate Mystery' (1927) *'The Empty Bed'(1928) *'Rogues Fall Out'(1928) *'The Golden Ape' (1930) *'The Crime in the Dutch Garden' (1931) *'The Paulton Plot' (1932) *'The Woman in Black' (1933)


Roger Bennion Novels

*'Death Off the Fairway' (1936) *'The Old Jew Mystery' (1936) *'A Single Hair' (1937) *'The Bluff' (1938) *'The Damned Spot' (1938) *'Black Death' (1939) *'The Nineteenth Hole Mystery' (1939) *'The Case of the Stolen Bridegroom' (1940) *'The Chief Witness' (1940) *'Stab in the Back' (1941) *'Roger Bennion's Double' (1941) *'The Araway Oath' (1942) *'Signal for Invasion' (1942) *'Victory Song' (1943) *'Four Winds' (1944) *'The Writing on the Wall' (1945) *'Diamonds Are Trumps' (1947) *'Crime Wave at Little Cornford' (1948) *'One to Play' (1949) *'The Dean's Daughters' (1950) *'The Sleeping Draught' (1951) *'Exit the Skeleton' (1952) *'The Spectre in Brown' (1953) *'Slippery Dick' (1954) *'The Judas Kiss' (1955) *'Welcome Home!' (1956) *'Death on the First Tee' (1957) *'Death of a Viewer' (1958)


Non-Series Novels

*'A Virtue of Necessity' (1900) *'By Order of the Five' (1925) *'The Sloane Square Mystery' (1925) *'Comrade Jill' (1926) *'The Perfect Round' (1927). Short stories *'Caroline Ormesby's Crime' (1930). Serialised: Birmingham Daily Gazette, 'Caroline Hits Back' (1930) *'Oddways' (1930) *'A Lady So Innocent' (1932) *'John Brand's Will' (1933). US Title: The Golf House Murder *'The Knife' (1934). US Title: The Strange Murder of Hatton, K.C. *'Mystery and Minette' (1934) *'The Body in the Bunker' (1935) *'Fate Laughs' (1935) *'A Word of Six Letters' (1936). US Title: Murder Without Risk *'The Lovely Lucinda'. Serialised: Weekly Telegraph (1937) *'The Scarlet Feather' (1943) *'Murder Most Just' (1956)


Short stories

*'A Lady-Killer'. Young Man, 21 July 1900 *'A Child of Cheshire'. Young Woman, 5 October 1900 *'A Consignment from Yarmouth'. Beverley & East Riding Recorder, 3 August 1907 *' TITLE UNKNOWN'. Weekly Telegraph Christmas Annual (1931)


External links

*Some of Adams's novels can be found a
Project Gutenberg Australia
*More about Adam's novels a
Fantastic Fiction
*Another Bibliograph

1874 births 1958 deaths English crime fiction writers English mystery writers {{UK-novelist-stub