Kenneth Giles

Kenneth Giles (1922–1974) was a British crime writer. Giles wrote books under his own name, as well as the pseudonyms Charles Drummond and Edmund McGirr.

Giles started as a sporting journalist, and used what he learned there as background for the Drummond novels. The Drummond books star Sgt. Reed, while the McGirr books star a private detective.

In a ''New York Times'' review of ''Death among the Stars'', the American crime fiction critic Allen J. Hubin writes "It will be a long while before I have had enough of Mr. Giles." The American critic Anthony Boucher, in a ''New York Times'' review of ''A Provenance of Death'', Giles' first novel to be published in the United States, describes the author as "promising", and the novel's detective as a "real working pro". Provided by Wikipedia