Robert Budd Mystery series by Gerald Verner EPUB

English | ePUB | 14.50 MiB | Books: 18


The Author

Gerald Verner is one of the pseudonyms used by John Robert Stuart Pringle, who was born in Streatham, London, on 31 January 1897.

In his early writing days he used the name Donald Stuart, under which name he wrote 44 stories for the Sexton Blake Library as well as six stories for Union Jack and three for the Thriller magazine. In addition he wrote two stage plays, ‘Sexton Blake’ and ‘The Shadow’, two films, ‘The Man Outside’ (1933) and ‘The Shadow’ (1933) under the Stuart name. Later a number of his books were adapted for radio serials, stage plays and films.

He became a hugely successful thriller writer, producing more than 120 novels that were translated in 35 languages. The Duke of Windsor was a big Verner fan and at one time he was presented with 15 volumes specially bound.

Heavily influenced by Edgar Wallace, he wrote extensively for magazines such as Detective Weekly, the Sexton Blake Library, Union Jack and The Thriller. He also adapted Peter Cheyney’s ‘Meet Mr Callaghan’ and Agatha Christie’s ‘Towards Zero’ for the stage.

He also used the pseudonyms Thane Leslie, Derwent Steele and Nigel Vane.

He died at Broadstairs, Kent, of natural causes on 16 September 1980.

The Books

Fiction, Mystery & Detective, General

Mr. Hamilton Lorne is amused to receive a card with the grotesque picture of a fool, complete with cap and bells, one finger pointing at the holder.

He and Superintendent Budd of Scotland Yard laugh at the threatening limerick scrawled across the back, assuming it is a feeble practical joke, and drop the card into a waste-paper basket.

But no one is laughing when the following morning Mr. Lorne is found dead, stabbed through the heart — the first in a series of sadistic murders perpetrated by the elusive Grim Joker…

This not-for-the-faint-hearted thriller will have you scratching your head and reaching for the light!

The books in suggested reading order:
The Grim Joker
The Jockey
The Silver Horseshoe
The Witches Moon
The Football Pool Murders
The Huntsman
The Twelve Apostles
The Seven Lamps
The Royal Flush Murders
The Tipster
The Whispering Woman
Mr. Midnight
The Nursery Rhyme Murders
The Last Warning
Murder in Manuscript
Six Men Died
Mister Big
The Seventh Virgin


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