Sydney Walter Martin "Marten" Cumberland (23 July 1892 – 1972) was an English journalist, novelist and editor. He also wrote under the

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Kevin O'Hara. He specialised in the detective/mystery genre and created the character of Inspector Saturnin Dax, a French policeman. During

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, Cumberland served as a radio operator in the Merchant Navy. After the war, he worked successively for several newspapers and publishing houses as a writer. He also composed some

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for various magazines. He became a

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in 1924. In 1923, Cumberland published his first novel, ''Loaded Dice'', which he co-wrote with B.V. Shann. He married Kathleen Walsh in 1928. In his last years, he moved to

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, where he died in 1972.

Bibliography

* ''Loaded Dice'' (with BV Shann) (1926) * ''The Perilous Way'' (1926) * ''Mate in Three Moves'' (1929) * ''The Diary of Death'' (1932) * ''The Sin of David'' (1932) * ''The Dark House'' (1935) * ''Devil's Snare'' (1935) * ''The Impostor'' (1935) * ''Murder at Midnight'' (with BV Shann) (1935) * ''Shadowed'' (1936) * ''Bird of Prey'' (1937) * ''Someone Must Die'' (1940) * ''Questionable Shape'' (1941) * ''Quislings Over Paris'' (1942) * ''The Knife Will Fall'' (1943) * ''The Testing of Tony'' (1943) * ''Everything He Touched'' (1945) * ''Not Expected to Live'' (1945) * ''Steps in the Dark'' (1945) * ''A Lovely Corpse'' (1946) * ''Darkness As a Bride'' (1947) * ''Hearsed in Death'' (aka ''A Dilemma for Dax'') (1947) * ''And Worms Have Eaten Them'' (aka ''Hate Will Find a Way'') (1948) * ''And Then Came Fear'' (1949) * ''The Crime School'' (1949) * ''On the Danger List'' (1950) * ''Policeman's Nightmare'' (1950) * ''Confetti Red Can Be'' (aka ''The House in the Forest'') (1951) * ''The Man Who Covered Mirrors'' (1951) * ''Booked for Death'' (aka ''Grave Consequences'') (1952) * ''Fade Out the Stars'' (1952) * ''One Foot in the Grave'' (1952) * ''The Charge Is Murder'' (1953) * ''Etched in Violence'' (1953) * ''Which of Us Is Safe?'' (aka ''Nobody Is Safe'') (1953) * ''The Frightened Brides'' (1954) * ''Utterly Until Death'' (1954) * ''Lying at Death's Door'' (1956) * ''Far Better Dead!'' (1957) * ''Hate for Sale'' (1957) * ''Out of This World'' (1958) * ''Murmurs in the Rue Morgue'' (1959) * ''Remains to Be Seen'' (1960) * ''There Must Be Victims'' (1961) * ''Watch Out! Saturnin Dax'' (1962) * ''Postscript to a Death'' (1963) * ''Hate Finds a Way'' (1964) * ''The Dice Were Loaded'' (1965) * ''It's Your Funeral'' (1966) * ''No Feeling in Murder'' (1966)

As Kevin O'Hara

* ''The Customer's Always Wrong'' (1951) * ''Exit and Curtain'' (1952) * ''Sing, Clubman, Sing!'' (1952) * ''Always Tell the Truth'' (1953) * ''It Leaves Them Cold'' (1954) * ''Keep Your Fingers Crossed'' (1955) * ''The Pace That Kills'' (1955) * ''Women Like to Know'' (1957) * ''Danger: Women at Work!'' (1958) * ''Well, I'll Be Hanged!'' (1958) * ''And Here Is the Noose!'' (1959) * ''Taking Life Easy'' (1961) * ''If Anything Should Happen'' (1962) * ''Do not Tell the Police'' (1963) * ''Do not Neglect the Body'' (1964) * ''It's Your Funeral'' (1966)

References

External links

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