 Pseudonym of James Douglas Rutherford McConnell. He was born in Kilkenny, Ireland. He studied at Clare College, Cambridge. In the Second World War, he served in the British Intelligence Corps in North Africa and Italy. After the war, he worked as a teacher at Eton College. Apart from writing crime fiction, he also wrote books of language instruction and collaborated on two novels with Francis Durbridge | .
Titles and year of publication:
| 1) Comes the Blind Fury | 1950 |
| 2) Meet a Body | 1951 |
| 3) Flight into Peril | 1952 |
| 4) Telling of a Murder | 1952 |
| 5) Grand Prix Murder | 1955 |
| 6) The Perilous Sky | 1955 |
| 7) The Chequered Flag | 1956 |
| 8) The Long Echo | 1957 |
| 9) The Tyler Mystery (with Francis Durbridge) | 1957 |
| 10) A Shriek of Tyres | 1957 |
| 11) On the Track of Death | 1959 |
| 12) East of Algiers (with Francis Durbridge) | 1959 |
| 13) Murder Is Incidental | 1961 |
| 14) The Creeping Flesh | 1963 |
| 15) The Black Leather Murders | 1966 |
| 16) Skin for Skin | 1968 |
| 17) The Gilt-Edged Cockpit | 1969 |
| 18) Clear the Fast Lane | 1971 |
| 19) The Gunshot Grand Prix | 1972 |
| 20) Killer on the Track | 1973 |
| 21) Kick Start | 1973 |
| 22) Rally to the Death | 1974 |
| 23) Race against the Sun | 1975 |
| 24) Mystery Tour | 1975 |
| 25) Return Load | 1977 |
| 26) Collision Course | 1978 |
| 27) The Benedictine Commando | 1980 |
| 28) Turbo | 1980 |
| 29) The Porcupine Basin | 1981 |
| 30) Stop at Nothing | 1983 |
| 31) A Game of Sudden Death | 1987 |