Scotland Yard (Esprios Classics)

George Dilnot (1883-1951) was a British journalist and novelist author of crime fiction. For a time he was a professional policeman then a journalist before starting to write in the mid-1910s when he wrote two detective novels with Frank Froest a former work colleague and Scotland Yard detective. He went on to publish nearly twenty titles on his own in which several recurring characters appeared: Inspector Strickland Val Emery Horace Augustus Elver Jim Strang. Like many popular British writers he wrote a few adventures in the Sexton Blake series. His last novel Counter Spy (1942) is an anti-Nazi spy novel.