Pseudonym of Elizabeth MacKintosh. She was born in Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. She began her publishing career with writing verse under the name 'Gordon Daviot'. She published poetry and short stories in the Westminster Gazette, the Glasgow Herald and the Literary Review, until the publication of her first novel in 1929. Her first book Kif, an Unvarnished History (written as 'Gordon Daviot') was not a crime novel. Her second novel introduced 'Alan Grant', a Scotland Yard Inspector. It was written under the name 'Gordon Daviot'. For a number of years, she deserted the crime genre. In 1931 her second 'straight' novel The Expensive Halo was published. In 1936, she returned to the crime scene with a second novel starring Inspector Grant. After the Second World War, she published six crime novels in a row. Her last novel, an historical one, The Privateer was published posthumously in 1952.