Milward Rodon Kennedy Burge (1894 - 1968) was an English civil servant, journalist, crime writer and literary critic. Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A domestic worker, domestic, servingman, servingwoman, or servant is one who works and often also lives within the employer's household A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends A crime writer is an author of Crime fiction. Crime writers are often but not exclusively authors of Detective fiction, which may form part or all of their work Literary criticism is the study discussion evaluation and interpretation of Literature. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. Winchester College is a well-known boys' Independent school, and an example of an English Public school, in the city of Winchester in Hampshire New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He served with British Military Intelligence in WW1 and then worked for the International Labor Office and the Egyptian government. The International Labour Organization He was London editor of the Empire Digest and reviewed mystery fiction for The Sunday Times and The Guardian. The Sunday Times is a Sunday Broadsheet Newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. He retired in the 1960s to West Sussex. Burge married Georgina Lee in 1921 and in 1926 after her death married Eveline Schrieber Billiat in 1926. He also wrote under the pseydonym Evelyn Elder.
Kennedy specialised in police mysteries, but also wrote about the adventures of Sir George Bull, a professional private investigator. He also collaborated with other members of The Detection Club on The Floating Admiral and Ask a Policeman. The Detection Club was formed in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L The Floating Admiral is a collaborative detective novel written by members of the Detection Club in 1931. Ask a Policeman is a 1939 British Comedy Film starring Will Hay. His series characters are Sir George Bull and Inspector Cornford.
Bibliography
- The Bleston Mystery (1928) with A. G. Macdonell
- The Corpse on the Mat (1929) aka Man who Rang the Bell
- Corpse Guard Parade (1929)
- Half Mast Murder (1930)
- Death in a Deck-Chair (1930)
- Death to the Rescue (1931)
- The Floating Admiral (1931) with others
- The Murderer of Sleep (1932)
- Bull's Eye (1933)
- Ask a Policeman (1933) with others
- Corpse in Cold Storage (1934)
- Poison in the Parish (1935)
- Sic Transit Gloria (1936) aka Scornful Corpse
- I'll be Judge, I'll be Jury (1937)
- It Began in New York (1943)
- Escape to Quebec (1946)
- The Top Boot (1950)
As Evelyn Elder
- Murder in Black and White (1931)
- Angel in the Case (1932)
- Two's Company (1952)
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