Kenneth Giles was a British

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 crime writer. Giles, who died in 1974, wrote books under his own name, as well as the pseudonym

Pseudonym

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s 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

Detective

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Incomplete Bibliography

• Some Beasts No More (1965)

The Big Greed (1966) NOT about James & Honeybody

• 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)

The Lead-Lined Coffin (?) Edmund McGirr
An Entry of Death (?) Edmund McGirr
Death Pays the Wages ) Edmund McGirr

• A File on Death (1973)
• Bardel's Murder (1973) (as Edmund McGirr)
• A Murderous Journey (1974) (as Edmund McGirr)