Kenneth Giles

Kenneth Giles was a British crime writer. Giles, who died in 1974, wrote books under his own name, as well as the pseudonyms Charles Drummond and Edmund McGirr.

Giles started as a sporting journalist, and used what he learned there as background for the Drummond novels.

The Drummond books star Sgt. Reed, while the McGirr books star a private eye.

Incomplete Bibliography

*"Some Beasts No More" (1965)
*"A Provenance of Death" (1966)
*"The Funeral Was in Spain" (1966) (as Edmund McGirr)
*"Death at the Furlong Post" (1967) (as Charles Drummond)
*"Death in Diamonds" (1967)
*"The Lead-Lined Coffin" (1968) (as Edmund McGirr)
*"The Odds on Death" (1969) (as Charles Drummond)
*"Death and Mr. Prettyman" (1967)
*"Here Lies My Wife" (1967) (as Edmund McGirr)
*"A Hearse with Horses" (1967) (as Edmund McGirr)
*"Death Cracks a Bottle" (1969)
*"Death and the Leaping Ladies" (1969) (as Charles Drummond)
*"An Entry of Death" (1969) (as Edmund McGirr)
*"A Death in the Church" (1970)
*"Stab in the Back" (1970) (as Charles Drummond)
*"No Better Fiend" (1971) (as Edmund McGirr)
*"A Death at the Bar" (1972) (as Charles Drummond)
*"A File on Death" (1973)
*"Bardel's Murder" (1973) (as Edmund McGirr)
*"A Murderous Journey" (1974) (as Edmund McGirr)