 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. He is the creator of 'Paddy Regan', a British special investigator in Europe. | .
Titles and year of publication:
| 'Paddy Regan' Novels | |
| 1) Comes the Blind Fury | 1950 |
| 2) Meet a Body | 1951 |
| 3) Telling of Murder (US Title: Flight into Peril [1952]) | 1952 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) Grand Prix Murder | 1955 |
| 2) The Perilous Sky | 1956 |
| 3) The Long Echo | 1957 |
| 4) The Tyler Mystery (with Francis Durbridge) | 1957 |
| 5) A Shriek of Tyres (US Title: On the Track of Death [1959]) | 1958 |
| 6) East of Algiers (with Francis Durbridge) | 1959 |
| 7) Murder Is Incidental | 1961 |
| 8) The Creeping Flesh | 1963 |
| 9) The Black Leather Murders | 1966 |
| 10) Skin for Skin | 1968 |
| 11) The Gilt-Edged Cockpit | 1969 |
| 12) Clear the Fast Lane | 1971 |
| 13) The Gunshot Grand Prix | 1972 |
| 14) Killer on the Track | 1973 |
| 15) Kick Start | 1973 |
| 16) Rally to the Death | 1974 |
| 17) Race against the Sun | 1975 |
| 18) Mystery Tour | 1975 |
| 19) Return Load | 1977 |
| 20) Collision Course | 1978 |
| 21) Turbo | 1980 |
| 22) Porcupine Basin | 1981 |
| 23) Stop at Nothing | 1983 |
| 24) A Game of Sudden Death | 1987 |