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Milward Kennedy

Milward Kennedy

UK public servant and writer (1894–1968)

Milward Rodon Kennedy Burge (21 June 1894 – 20 January 1968) was an English civil servant, journalist, crime writer and literary critic. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He served with British Military Intelligence in World War I and then worked for the International Labor Office and the Egyptian government. He was London editor of the Empire Digest and reviewed mystery fiction for The Sunday Times and The Guardian. He retired in the 1960s to West Sussex. Burge married Georgina Lee in 1921 and after her death married Eveline Schrieber Billiat in 1926. He also wrote under the pseudonym Evelyn Elder.

Milward Kennedy in 1939

Kennedy specialised in police mysteries, but also wrote about the adventures of Sir George Bull, a professional private investigator. He also collaborated with other members of The Detection Club on The Floating Admiral and Ask a Policeman. His series characters are Sir George Bull and Inspector Cornford.

Bibliography

  • The Bleston Mystery (1928) with A. G. Macdonell. As Robert Milward Kennedy
  • The Corpse on the Mat (1929).[1] Serialised in the US in 1930 as The Man Who Rang the Bell
  • Corpse Guards Parade (1929)
  • Half Mast Murder (1930)
  • Death in a Deck-Chair (1930)
  • Death to the Rescue (1931)
  • The Floating Admiral (1931) with others
  • The Murderer of Sleep (1932)
  • Bull's Eye (1933)
  • Ask a Policeman (1933) with others
  • Corpse in Cold Storage (1934)
  • Poison in the Parish (1935)
  • Sic Transit Gloria (1936). Serialised in the US in 1936 as Scornful Corpse
  • I'll be Judge, I'll be Jury (1937)
  • It Began in New York (1943)
  • Escape to Quebec (1946)
  • The Top Boot (1950)

Short stories

Short non-fiction

  • The Rendezvous at the Rising Sun. Sunday Sun & Guardian, 14 July 1935

As Evelyn Elder

  • Murder in Black and White (1931)
  • Angel in the Case (1932)
  • Two's Company (1952)

References

  1. [1]
    Alexis Weedon (2021). The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century Adaptation. Cham: Springer. p. 194. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-72476-4. ISBN 978-3-030-72476-4.
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