Vernon Loder was a pseudonym for the prolific Belfast-born author John George Haslette "Jack" Vahey (1881–1938). With a solid reputation for witty characterisation and ‘the effortless telling of a good story’ (Observer), Loder’s popularity with Crime Club readers and reviewers was later summed up in the Sunday Mercury: ‘We have no better writer of thrill mystery in England.’
In addition to the canon of Loder titles between 1928 and 1938, Vahey wrote initially as John Haslette from 1909 to 1916, resuming writing in the late 1920s as Anthony Lang, George Varney, John Mowbray, Walter Proudfoot and Henrietta Clandon.
Born in Belfast, Jack Vahey was educated in Ulster and for a while in Hanover, Germany. He began his working life as an architect's pupil, but after four years switched careers and sat professional examinations with a view to becoming a chartered accountant. However, this too was abandoned, when Vahey took up writing fiction. He married Gertrude Crewe, and settled in the English south coast town of Bournemouth. His writing career was cut short by his death at the relatively young age of 57.
>From the Introduction by Nigel Moss to the 2015 Collins Crime Club edition of The Mystery at Stowe
Born | 1881 |
Died | 1938 |
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Born | 1881 |
Died | 1938 |
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Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Crimes against, Editors, Fiction, Fiction, crime, Golden Age mysteryID Numbers
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- Loder, Vernon pseud.
- John Haslette Vahey
- Jack Vahey
- John Haslette
- Anthony Lang
- George Varney
- John Mowbray
- Walter Proudfoot
- Henrietta Clandon
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