Author:Ernest Robertson Punshon

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Ernest Robertson Punshon (1872–1956)

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English novelist and literary critic, primarily writing on crime and deduction. Best remembered as the creator of Scotland Yard Police Constable Bobby Owen (1933-1956). He also critiqued many of Agatha Christie's works. Pseudonyms E. R. Punshon, Robertson Halket

Works

• Constance West (1905) IA
• The Mystery of Lady Isobel (1907)
• The Spin of the Coin (1908)
• The Glittering Desire (1910)
• Hidden Lives (1913)
• Arrows of Chance (1917)
• The Solitary House (1918) IA
• Dunslow (1922)
• The Bittermeads Mystery (1922)
• Dunslow (1922)

Individual short works

• "The Unwilling Burglar" in London Magazine, 1903
• "Veronica's Captive" in The Idler, 1903
• "A Tartar of a Girl" in English Illustrated Magazine, 1904
• "A Mystery of the Downs" in Windsor Magazine, 1912
• "The Colonel and the Incompetent Waiter" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1914
• "A Telescopic Wooing," (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1915
• "The Blind See," (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1916
• "Her Chance," (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1916
• "Borrowed Plumes" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1916-17
• "The Diamond" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1916-17
• "Scared Stiff" (ss) Everybody's Magazine, 1921
• "Learning Business" (novelette) Everybody's Magazine, 1923
• "Dog Eat Dog" (ss) Everybody's Magazine, 1923