Kenneth Giles


Kenneth Giles was a British crime writer. Giles wrote books under his own name, as well as the pseudonyms Charles Drummond and Edmund McGirr.
Giles started as a sporting journalist, and used what he learned there as background for the Drummond novels. The Drummond books star Sgt. Reed, while the McGirr books star a private detective.
In a New York Times review of Death among the Stars, the American crime fiction critic Allen J. Hubin writes "It will be a long while before I have had enough of Mr. Giles." The American critic Anthony Boucher, in a New York Times review of A Provenance of Death, Giles' first novel to be published in the United States, describes the author as "promising", and the novel's detective as a "real working pro".

Incomplete bibliography

  • Some Beasts No More
  • The Big Greed
  • A Provenance of Death
  • The Funeral Was in Spain
  • Death at the Furlong Post
  • Death in Diamonds
  • Death and Mr. Prettyman
  • The Lead-Lined Coffin
  • The Odds on Death
  • Here Lies My Wife
  • A Hearse with Horses
  • Death among the Stars
  • Death Cracks a Bottle
  • Death and the Leaping Ladies
  • An Entry of Death
  • A Death in the Church
  • Stab in the Back
  • Murder Pluperfect
  • No Better Fiend
  • A Death at the Bar
  • The Lead-Lined Coffin
  • An Entry of Death
  • Death Pays the Wages
  • A File on Death
  • Bardel's Murder
  • ''A Murderous Journey''