Herbert Adams (novelist)

Herbert Adams ( * 1874 in Dorset, South West England, † 1958) was an English writer.

Life

After his first attempt to debut as a writer, was unsuccessful, Adams spent several years working in a real estate office. Later he started his own business as a real estate broker. At fifty, he tried again in 1924 as a writer and had his detective novel The Secret of the Bogey House immediate success.

Reception

Adams published almost sixty detective novels; many under his own name, some under the pseudonym Jonathan Gray. As an avid golfer Adams moved many of his stories on the golf courses in Britain.

Adams created as an important protagonist of the " detective Roger Bennion " who understands most of his cases to solve on the green. His readers - as well as literary criticism - often compared Adams with his colleague Agatha Christie.

Works

  • Daisy and Rosemary. Detective novel ( " Mystery and Minette "). Goldmann, Munich 1952.
  • The double life of Miss Phoebe ( " slipery Dick" ). Goldmann, Munich 1960.
  • Jill and Jack. Detective novel ( " The Bluff "). Goldmann, Munich 1960.
  • The Judas Kiss. Detective novel ( " The Judas Kiss" ). Goldmann, Munich 1956.
  • The treasure of Queen's Gate. Detective novel ( "The Queen 's Gate Mystery "). Goldmann, Munich 1955.
  • The nightcap. Detective novel ( " The Sleeping Draught "). Goldmann, Munich 1960.
  • The beautiful conspirator. Detective novel ( " Caroline Ormesby 's Crime "). Goldmann, Munich 1954.
  • A cup of tea. Kriminalronman ( "Word of six letters" ). Goldmann, Munich 1951.
  • The treacherous track. Detective novel ( " The Damned Spot "). Goldmann, Munich 1959.
  • Who is Correlan? ("The Paulton Plot" ). Rembrandt -Verlag, Berlin, 1933.
  • Death of a viewer. In 1958.
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