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Douglas Rutherford
1915-1988
 

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

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