Headon Hill

Headon Hill , actually Francis Edward Grainger , (* 1857 in Lowestoft , Great Britain , † 1924 ) was an English journalist and writer.

Grainger wrote as a freelance journalist for various magazines and newspapers. For his own literary works, mostly detective novels , he used the pseudonym Headon Hill ; possibly one can associate this “nom de plume” with a geological formation on the Isle of Wight (Alum Bay).

Works (selection)

Sebastian Zambra cycle

• Clues from a detective's camera . 1893.
• Zambra, the detective . 1894.
• The divinations of Kala Persad and other stories . 1895.

Novels

• The avengers . Ward Lock, London 1906.
• The secret of the rock path. Detective novel ("The cliff path mystery"). Eden-Verlag, Berlin 1928.
• The gold of the maharajah. Detective novel ("A traitor's wooing"). Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1927 (Enßlin's interesting library; 46).
• Guilty gold. A romance of financial fraud and city crime . Pearson Books, London 1896.
• Your fault. Detective novel , Marburger Zeitung 1912
• The queen of night . Ward Lock, London 1896; German The "Queen of the Night", 1913
• The puzzle about MM 21 ("The Mammoth Mansion"). Universitas-Verlag, Berlin 1930.
• To hair's breadth ( "By a hair's breadth"). Engelhorn Verlag, Stuttgart 1898.
• Will I be caught? . Glöckner-Verlag, Berlin 1929 (Glöckner books; 44).

literature

• Armin Arnold u. a. (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010279-0 , p. 197.

Web links

• Works by Headon Hill in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Photo in baskerville.over-blog.com (French)