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Peter Drax
Eric Elrington Addis was born on 19 May 1899 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the youngest child of the marriage formed by Emily, the daughter of an officer in the British Indian Army, and David F. Addis, a retired Indian civil servant. Drax attended Edinburgh University, and served in the Royal Navy. In 1926, she married with Hazel Iris Wilson. By his job, the couple lived in New Zealand until his retirement in 1928. They moved to Norfolk, where they had their two children: Valerie A. in 1929 and Jeremy Cecil in 1931, before moved to Charlwood. He studied law and he began practising as a barrister to the Admiralty bar. He recalled to the Navy upon the outbreak of the Second World War, he served on HMS Warspite and was mentioned in dispatches. Her family moved to New Zealand, and his wife started to wrote novels under the pseudonyms Hazel Adair, H. I. Addis and A. J. Heritage, he also started to write under the pseudonym of Peter Drax. He was killed during the war on 31 August 1941, at 42. Between 1936 and 1939, he published six crime novels, his later novel, Sing a Song of Murder, unfinished by him on his death, was completed by his wife, and published in 1944.
Book List in Order: 6 titles
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He Shot to Kill
- Jan-1936
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His arms were hanging down, but his face was turned upwards. For the first time Johnny saw a dead man.Colonel Meroy is a prosperous pillar of the landed gentry. But his neighbours would be shocked to learn he’d started out as a London pickpocket, a...
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Murder by Chance
- Jan-1936
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The knife with the carved sheath inlaid with silver, had been driven up to its haft between the shoulders of Captain Geoffrey Hunt.Johannis Kudorfer, master mariner, is a fraudster and a rogue. But that suits Sam Hartford just fine, because he is a s...
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Death by Two Hands
- Jan-1937
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‘One brown mouse. Victim of foul play.’Chalk Street, Camden Town, is the busy scene for all kinds of commercial activity â€" some legal, some a little less so. By day, local crime boss Mr. Rivers works as a market trader, but gladly turns his att...
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Tune to a Corpse
- Jan-1938
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He called out, ‘Abie!’ The word was swallowed up in the depths of the hall. It was like a morgue.Captain Eric Macrae is down on his luck, living in a cheap London boarding house and on his wits. When chance puts a string of valuable pearls his wa...
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High Seas Murder
- Jan-1939
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‘There’s been a murder there.’
Tubby stared at him. ‘A murder! Who was it?’
It was the first time in his life that Tubby had been told that he had been murdered.
Carl Swanson, recognized as the best ship’s captain in ...
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Sing a Song of Murder
- Jan-1944
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‘The man died from wounds on the head. There was no trace of carbon in his lungs, so he must have been dead before he was put on the dump.’The livelihood of Louie Patra depends entirely on the supply of bad men; men who climb up the face of a hou...