Herbert Adams (writer)

Herbert Adams , pseudonym Jonathan Gray (* 1874 in Dorset , South West England , † 1958 ) was an English writer.

Life

After his first attempt at debut as a writer was unsuccessful, Adams worked for a brokerage office for several years. He later went into business for himself as a real estate agent. At the age of fifty he tried his hand at writing again in 1924 and had immediate success with his detective novel The Secret of the Bogey House .

reception

Adams published nearly sixty detective novels; many under his own name, some under the pseudonym Jonathan Gray . As an avid golfer , Adams set many of his stories on the golf courses of Great Britain.

Adams created the "detective Roger Bennion" as an important protagonist, who knows how to solve most of his cases on the green . His readers - as well as literary criticism - often compared Adams to his colleague Agatha Christie .

Works

• Daisy and Rosemary. Detective novel ("Mystery and Minette"). Goldmann, Munich 1952.
• The double life of Miss Phoebe ("Slipery Dick"). Goldmann, Munich 1960.
• Jill and Jack. Detective novel ("The Bluff"). Goldmann, Munich 1960.
• The Judas kiss. Detective novel ("The Judas Kiss"). Goldmann, Munich 1956.
• The treasure of Queen's Gate. Detective novel ("The Queen's Gate Mystery"). Goldmann, Munich 1955.
• The sleeping potion. Detective novel ("The Sleeping Draft"). Goldmann, Munich 1960.
• The beautiful conspirator. Detective novel ("Caroline Ormesby's Crime"). Goldmann, Munich 1954.
• A cup of tea. Detective novel ("Word of six letters"). Goldmann, Munich 1951.
• The telltale lead. Detective novel ("The Damned Spot"). Goldmann, Munich 1959.
• Who is Correlan? ("The Paulton Plot"). Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1933.
• Death of a Viewer . 1958.

literature

• Armin Arnold u. a. (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010278-2 , p. 48.

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Adams in the catalog of the German National Library