Herbert Adams was born in Dorset. He is the creator of:
1. 'Jimmie Haswell', a lawyer in London.
2. 'Roger Bennion', a golfer and amateur sleuth.
Adams also wrote under the pseudonym 'Jonathan Gray'.
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Herbert Adams was born in Dorset. He is the creator of:
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Titles and year of publication:
| 'Jimmie Haswell' Novels | |
| 1) The Secret of Bogey House | 1924 |
| 2) The Crooked Lip | 1926 |
| 3) The Queen's Gate Mystery | 1927 |
| 4) The Empty Bed | 1928 |
| 5) Rogues Fall Out | 1928 |
| 6) The Golden Ape | 1930 |
| 7) The Crime in the Dutch Garden | 1931 |
| 8) The Paulton Plot | 1932 |
| 9) The Woman in Black | 1933 |
| 'Roger Bennion' Novels | |
| 1) Death Off the Fairway | 1936 |
| 2) The Old Jew Mystery | 1936 |
| 3) A Single Hair | 1937 |
| 4) Black Death | 1938 |
| 5) The Damned Spot | 1938 |
| 6) The Nineteenth Hole Mystery | 1939 |
| 7) The Case of the Stolen Bridegroom | 1940 |
| 8) The Chief Witness | 1940 |
| 9) Roger Bennion's Double | 1941 |
| 10) Stab in the Back | 1941 |
| 11) The Araway Oath | 1942 |
| 12) Signal for Invasion | 1942 |
| 13) Victory Song | 1943 |
| 14) Four Winds | 1944 |
| 15) The Writing on the Wall | 1945 |
| 16) Diamonds Are Trumps | 1947 |
| 17) Crime Wave at Little Cornford | 1948 |
| 18) One to Play | 1949 |
| 19) The Dean's Daughters | 1950 |
| 20) The Sleeping Draught | 1951 |
| 21) Exit the Skeleton | 1952 |
| 22) The Spectre in Brown | 1953 |
| 23) Slippery Dick | 1954 |
| 24) The Judas Kiss | 1955 |
| 25) Welcome Home! | 1956 |
| 26) Death on the First Tee | 1957 |
| 27) Death of a Viewer | 1958 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) A Virtue of Necessity | 1899 |
| 2) By Order of the Five | 1925 |
| 3) The Sloane Square Mystery | 1925 |
| 4) Comrade Jill | 1926 |
| 5) The Perfect Round (short stories) | 1927 |
| 6) Caroline Ormsby's Crime | 1929 |
| 7) Oddways | 1930 |
| 8) The Knife (US Title: The Strange Murder of Hatton, K.C. [1933]) | 1934 |
| 9) Mystery and Minette | 1934 |
| 10) John Brand's Will (US Title: The Golf House Murder [1933]) | 1935 |
| 11) The Body in the Bunker | 1935 |
| 12) Fate Laughs | 1935 |
| 13) A Word of Six Letters (US Title: Murder Without Risk [1936]) | 1936 |
| 14) The Scarlet Feather | 1943 |
| 15) Murder Most Just | 1956 |
| As 'Jonathan Gray' | |
| 1) Safety Last | 1934 |
| 2) The Owl | 1937 |