John Rhode

The Murders in Praed Street (eBook, ePUB)

'Mr. Tovey, with a queer strangled cry, suddenly collapsed''

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Produktbeschreibung

Cecil John Charles Street OBE MC was born on the 3rd May 1884 in Gibraltar.

His career in the military began in 1903 as an artillery officer before moving into propaganda during the Great War. By the outbreak of the Irish War of Independence he was an officer working between Dublin and London.

His writing career began during the Great War and by the mid-1920's he was writing under both his own name and that of several pseudonyms including John Rhode, Miles Burton and Cecil Waye. Although his main output was detective fiction novels, he covered many other genres including short stories, non-fiction, radio plays, a stage play and a host of essays and articles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Copyright Group
• Seitenzahl: 127
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781836823759
• Artikelnr.: 72334969

Autorenporträt

John Rhode(pseudonym) (Cecil John Charles Street)John Rhode better known as John Street, was a major in the British Army and a crime fiction novelist.He began his military career as an artillery officer and during World War I, he became a propagandist for MI7. During the Irish War of Independence, he acted as an Information Officer for Dublin Castle alternating between Dublin and London and working closely with the British official Lionel Curtis. He later earned his living as a prolific writer of detective novels written under several pseudonyms including John Rhode, Miles Burton and Cecil Waye.Street was born in Gibraltar to General John Alfred Street CB of Woking, and his second wife, Caroline, daughter of Charles Horsfall Bill of Storthes Hall, Yorkshire, head of a landed gentry family. Street was educated in Wellington College, Berkshire and later in Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1903, before getting transferred to the Special Reserves. He later served as a Captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery. He was wounded three times in combat and won the Military Cross for his services. As a Major, he headed a branch of British Military Intelligence and later, he acted as an Information Officer at the headquarters of the British administration, based in Dublin Castle.John Street wrote three series of novels; one under the name of John Rhode, mostly featuring the mathematics professor Dr. Lancelot Priestley; another under the name of Miles Burton, mostly featuring the retired naval officer Desmond Merrion; and a third under the name of Cecil Waye, featuring the Perrins Investigators.