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Alister McAllister

1877 - 6 April 1943

Born in Dublin, Ireland; Alister McAllister became chief clerk in the National University, 1908-14; also acted as librarian; began writing plays under pseud. Henry Alexander, issuing Irene Wycherly (1906; var. 1907); also At the Barn (1912), with Marie Tempest, as well as others less successful; joined the British Army in 1914; wounded twice in machine-gun corps; settled in England after the First World War; wrote novels as Anthony Wharton, viz., The Man on the Hill (1923), dealing with society under stress of war; also The Two of Diamonds (1926), and detective novels as pseud. Lynn Brock, viz., The Deductions of Col. Gore (1925), followed by His Second Case; Third Case; The Kink and The Mendip Mystery; another play, The O’Cuddy (Abbey 1943), with Cyril Cusack, F. J. MacCormack, and Gerard Healy, closed after a week; lived for some time in Devon; died in Surrey, UK. - Source:http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/Mc/McAllister_A/life.htm

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    First published in 2017 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The deductions of Colonel Gore

    First published in 1924 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: 13, Simon street: a play in one act

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Fiction, crime, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Murder, Murder -- Fiction, Novelists, Novelists -- Fiction, Revenge, Revenge -- Fiction

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Alternative names

  • Lynn Brock
  • Henry Alexander
  • Antony P. Wharton.
  • Anthony P. Wharton

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July 17, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
December 7, 2022 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
February 20, 2016 Edited by Hemanth Kumar Author bio
August 19, 2008 Edited by an anonymous user fix author name
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import