Cecil M. Wills
1891-1966
 

Maitland Cecil Melville Wills was born in Bristol. He was educated at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey and at Manchester University. In 1915, he married Gladys Aimee Fothergill Hughes. He gained the rank of Captain in the Royal Engineers. He fought in both World Wars and gained the rank of Major-General in the Staff, War Office. He is the creator of:
1. 'Geoffrey Boscobell', a police inspector and later a private investigator.
2. 'Roger Ellerdine', a police sergeant and later chief inspector and later superintendent at Scotland Yard.
3. 'Sylvester Horatio Pinkney', a private investigator.
 

Titles and year of publication:  

 'Geoffrey Boscobell' Novels
 1) Author in Distress (Also published as: Number 18 [1934])  1934
 2) "Death Treads ..."  1935
 3) Then Came the Police  1935
 4) The Chamois Murder  1935
 5) Fatal Accident  1936
 6) Defeat of a Detective  1936
 7) On the Night in Question  1937
 8) A Body in the Dawn  1938
 9) The Case of the Calabar Bean  1939
10) The Case of the R.E. Pipe (Also features Roger Ellerdine)  1940
11) The Clue of the Lost Hour (Also features Roger Ellerdine)  1949
 'Roger Ellerdine' Novels
 1) The Clue of the Golden Ear-Ring (Also features Geoffrey Boscobell)  1950
 2) Who Killed Brother Treasurer?  1951
 3) What Say the Jury?  1951
 4) The Dead Voice  1952
 5) It Pays to Die  1953
 6) Death in the Dark  1955
 7) The Tiger Strikes Again  1957
 8) Mere Murder  1958
 9) Justice in Jeopardy  1961
 'Sylvester Horatio Pinkney' Novels
 1) The Case of the Empty Beehive  1959
 2) Death of a Best Seller  1959
 3) The Colonel's Foxhound  1960
 Other Novels
 1) Death on the Line  1954
 2) Midsummer Murder  1956

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