Arthur Gask (crime fiction collection)

Arthur Cecil Gask (10 July 1869—25 June 1951), dentist and novelist, was born on 10 July 1869 at St Marylebone, London, fourth of five children of Charles Gask, merchant, and his wife Fanny, née Edis.

He began writing crime fiction while waiting for his patients and in 1921 paid for the publication of his first novel, The Secret of the Sandhills, which was an immediate success.

Over a period of forty years Gask wrote over thirty books as well as contributing short stories to The Mail in Adelaide. Most of his novels described the activities of a detective, Gilbert Larose, in solving crimes. Gask's work was translated into several European languages, serialised in newspapers and broadcast on radio. He also wrote short stories.

H. G. Wells, an admirer of Gask's work, corresponded with Gask. Wells regarded The Vengeance of Larose (1939) as Gask's "best piece of story-telling...It kept me up till half-past one."

Bertrand Russell, also an admiring reader, called to see Gask at Gask's home in Walkerville, an Adelaide suburb, when he was in Adelaide in August 1950.

In this ebook:

Marauders by Night

The Vaults of Blackarden Castle

The Silent Dead

The Storm Breaks

The Dark Mill Stream

The Man Of Death

His Prey Was Man

The Beachy Head Murder

The Tragedy of the Silver Moon

The House on the Fens

The Vengeance of Larose

The Grave-digger of Monks Arden

The Night of the Storm

The Jest of Life

The Hangman's Knot

The Poisoned Goblet

The Judgment of Larose

The Hidden Door

The House on the Island

The Shadow of Larose

The Lonely House

The Dark Highway

Cloud The Smiter

The Fall of a Dictator

The House with the High Wall

The Red Paste Murders

The Secret of the Sandhills

Short Stories

The Destroyer

The Bishop's Dilemma

Black Market

The Way Of Chance

The Hatton Garden Crime

The Mark of Honor

The Lottery Ticket

The Amazing Adventure of Marmaduke

Seedtime and Harvest

Ghosts

Buggy's Babies

The Will

The Martyr on the Land

The Passion Years