Marten Cumberland
Sydney Walter Martin "Marten" Cumberland was an English journalist, novelist and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonym Kevin O'Hara. He specialised in the detective/mystery genre and created the character of Inspector Saturnin Dax, a French policeman.
During World War I, 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 detective stories for various magazines. He became a freelance journalist 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 Dublin, where he died in 1972.
As Kevin O'Hara
The Customer's Always Wrong Exit and Curtain Sing, Clubman, Sing! Always Tell the Truth It Leaves Them Cold Keep Your Fingers Crossed The Pace That Kills Women Like to Know Danger: Women at Work! Well, I'll Be Hanged! And Here Is the Noose! Taking Life Easy If Anything Should Happen Do not Tell the Police Do not Neglect the Body- ''It's Your Funeral''