Henry Wade

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Sir Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet (born September 10, 1887 in Surrey , † May 30, 1969 in Buckinghamshire ) was a British nobleman and politician and writer under the pseudonym Henry Wade .

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He was born in 1887 as the son of the British nobleman Sir Lancelot Fletcher, 5th Baronet, from his second marriage to Emily Harriet Wade, with the name Henry Lancelot Fletcher . On June 23, 1910, his father added the family name to Aubrey-Fletcher with a Royal License . He was at Eton College educated and studied at New College of the University of Oxford . In 1911 he married Mary Augusta Chilton, with whom he had five children. He fought in World War I , was wounded and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Croix de Guerre in 1917 . In 1920 he left the army as a major. He then lived in Buckinghamshire. He took on various ceremonial offices such as that of the High Sheriff in 1925 and that of the Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire in 1934 . Later he was also a member of Buckinghamshire County Council. The criminological and legal experience gained in these positions benefited him when he began writing detective novels in 1926 under the name Henry Wade (his mother's maiden name).

The Verdict of You All , his debut, went largely unnoticed. That only changed with The Duke of York's Steps (1929, death on the stairs ). Wade wrote realistically and his characters are believable. In total, he wrote over 20 crime novels. In seven novels and a collection of short stories, the central character is Inspector John Poole of Scotland Yard . Wade is often compared to Freeman Wills Crofts and Richard Austin Freeman . All three belonged to the Realist School of Detective Fiction , a branch of crime fiction in which investigators operate as they would in the real world.

In 1930 Wade was a founding member of the Detection Club in London, along with well-known authors of the genre . On the death of his father in 1937, he inherited his title of nobility as 6th Baronet , of Clea Hall in the County of Cumberland. In 1940 he returned to the front with the Grenadier Guards because of the Second World War . In 1947 he resumed his writing career. The thrillers created in this second creative phase are valued more highly by the critics than the earlier works. A Dying Fall (1955) in particular is considered a masterpiece of the Whodunit genre. From 1954 to 1961 he was Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. In 1957 he was inducted into the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) as Commander . He was also accepted as a Knight of Justice in the Order of St. John (KStJ) and was temporarily justice of the peace (JP). In 1963, Wade's first wife died. In 1965 he married Nancy Cecil Reynolds. When he died in 1969, his eldest son from his first marriage, John Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher (1912–1992), inherited his title of nobility as 7th baronet.

Works

Inspector Poole series

  • The Missing Partners , 1928
  • The Duke of York's Steps , 1929, death on the stairs , 1977
  • No Friendly Drop , 1931
  • Mist on the Saltings , 1933
  • Constable Guard Thyself , 1934, German Beware of real crooks , 1982
  • Heir Presumptive , 1935, German One Always Inherits , 1983
  • The High Sheriff , 1937
  • Lonely Magdalen , 1940, German Lonely Magdalen , 1978

Other thrillers

  • The Verdict of You All , 1926
  • The Dying Alderman , 1930
  • The Hanging Captain , 1932
  • Policeman's Lot (Stories), 1933
  • Bury Him Darkly , 1936
  • Here Comes the Copper (Stories), 1938
  • Released for Death , 1938
  • New Graves at Great Norne , 1947, German five dead and no perpetrator , 1980
  • Diplomat's Folly , 1951
  • Be Kind to a Killer , 1952
  • Too Soon to Die , 1953
  • Gold Was Our Grave , 1954
  • A Dying Fall , 1955
  • The Litmore Snatch , 1957

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reclams Kriminalromanführer , ed. by Armin Arnold and Josef Schmidt, Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010279-0
  2. ↑ Sir Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 5th Bt. On thepeerage.com
  3. ^ A b Mary Augusta Chilton on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c http://www.krimi-couch.de/krimis/henry-wade.html
  5. ↑ http://mikegrost.com/realist.htm
  6. ↑ http://gadetection.pbworks.com/w/page/7932421/Wade,%20Henry

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predecessor Office successor
Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher Baronet, of Clea Hall
1937-1969 		John Aubrey-Fletcher
personal data
SURNAME Wade, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aubrey-Fletcher, Sir Henry Lancelot, 6th Baronet (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English crime writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Surrey , England
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1969
Place of death Buckinghamshire , England