FRANCIS BEEDING

1885-1944,1898-1951

Writing as: Francis Beeding, Barum Browne, Cornelius Cofyn, Christopher Haddon, John Palmer, David Pilgrim, Hillary St. George Saunders, John Somers

According to GoodReads: "Francis Beeding is the pseudonym used by two British male writers, John Leslie Palmer (1885-1944) and Hilary St George Saunders (1898-1951). The pseudonym was a joint effort and was apparently chosen because Palmer always wanted to be called Francis and Saunders had once owned a house in the Sussex village of Beeding.

The pair met when undergraduates at Oxford and remained friends when they both worked at the League of Nations in Geneva and it was while there that they decided to collaborate on writing detective novels.

Discussing their collaboration at one time Saunders commented, 'Palmer can't be troubled with description and narrative, and I'm no good at creating characters or dialogue.' Whatever the reason it certainly worked."

Series		Books
Francis Beeding

Réhmy & de Blanchegarde		The Seven Sleepers (1925)
		The Hidden Kingdom (1927)

Alistair Granby		The Six Proud Walkers (1928)
		The Five Flamboys (1929)
		Pretty Sinister (1929)
		The Four Armourers (1930)
		The League of Discontent (1930)
		Take It Crooked (1932)
		The Two Undertakers (1933)
		The One Sane Man (1934)
		The Eight Crooked Trenches (1936)
		The Nine Waxed Faces (1936)
		Hell Let Loose (1937)
		The Black Arrows (1938)
		The Ten Holy Horrors (1939)
		Not A Bad Show (1940)
		Eleven Were Brave (1940)
		The Twelve Disguises (1942)
		There Are Thirteen (1946)
		The Erring Under-Secretary (ss) (1937)

Ronald Briercliffe		The Three Fishers (1931)
		The Two Undertakers (1933)
		Hell Let Loose (1937)

Other		The Big Fish aka Heads Off at Midnight (1938)
		Death in Four Letters (1935)
		Death Walks in Eastrepps (1931)
		The Emerald Clasp (1933)
		He Could Not Have Slipped [Insp. Wilkins] (1939)
		The House of Dr. Edwardes aka Spellbound (1927)
		The Little White Hag (1926)
		Mr. Bobadil aka The Street of the Serpents (1934)
		Murder Intended [Insp. Wilkins] (1932)
		No Fury aka Murdered: One by One [Insp. Wilkins] (1937)
		The Norwich Victims [Insp. Wilkins] (1935)
		The Secret Weapon aka Not a Bad Show (1940)

Barum Browne

Other		The Devil and X.Y.Z. (1931)

Cornelius Cofyn

Other		The Death-Riders (1935)

Christopher Haddon

Other		Under the Long Barrow aka The Man in the Purple Gown (1939)

John Palmer

Other		The Man with Two Names aka Mandragora (1940)

David Pilgrim

Other		The Emperor's Servant (1946)
		The Grand Design [James de la Cloche] (1944)
		No Common Glory [James de la Cloche] (1941)

Hillary St. George Saunders

Other		The Sleeping Bacchus (1951)

John Somers

Other		The Brethren of the Axe (1926)