Christopher Bush

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Christopher Bush (born December 15, 1885 in Great Hockham , Norfolk , † 1973 ) was a British author of crime novels and stories.

Live and act

Bush attended Great Hockham Village School and received a scholarship to attend Thetford Grammar School; he then studied modern languages ​​at King's College London . He then worked as a teacher and was drafted into military service in the First World War. He wrote a total of 63 crime stories and short novels, centered around his literary character Ludovic Travers, which appeared in Great Britain and the United States from 1926 to 1968. Furthermore, from 1934 onwards Bush published six stories about rural life in Breckland under the pseudonym Michael Home , also the three autobiographical stories Autumn Fields, Spring Sowing and Winter Harvest .

Publications (selection)

Crime stories

  • The Perfect Murder Case . William Heinemann, London 1929.
  • The Case of the Tudor Queen . Cassell & Co Ltd, London 1938.
  • The Case of The Hanging Rope . Cassell & Co Ltd, London 1939.
  • The case of the second chance . Macdonald, London 1946.
  • The Case of the Purloined Picture, Macmillan, New York 1951.
  • The Case of the Fourth Detective . Macdonald, London 1951.
  • The Case of the Frightened Mannequin . Macmillan, New York 1951.
  • The Case of the Amateur Actor . MacMillan, New York 1956
  • The Case of the Russian Cross . MacMillan, New York 1957
  • The case of the triple twist . MacMillan (Cock Robin Mystery), New York 1958.
  • The Case of the Grand Alliance . Macdonald, London 1964.
  • The Case of the Jumbo Sandwich . Macdonald & Co, London 1965.

Translations (selection)

  • The Hampstead Murder Tale. In: Mary Hottinger (ed.): Even more murders. New crime stories from England and America from Dorothy Sayers to Peter Cheyney . Zurich: Diogenes, 1963.
  • Then the phone rang . Detective novel. German Transferred from Günter Stephan, Berlin, Amsel-Kriminal-Romane, 1955.
  • Grave without dead . Bern, Alfred Scherz (The Black Detective Novels No. 196), 1963
  • Until grass grew over it . Detective novel. Translated from the English by Maria Meinert. Bern, Scherz (The black crime novels, Volume 212), 1964.
  • The man who died twice . Detective novel. Transfer from d. Engl. By Brigitte Fock-Henneberg. Bern, Munich, Vienna, joke, 1965.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.detective-fiction.com/christopherbush-bibliography.htm
personal data
SURNAME Bush, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author of crime novels and stories
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Hockham , Norfolk
DATE OF DEATH 1973