JAMES MCCONNELL

1915 - 1988

Writing as: Douglas Rutherford

According to Wikipedia: "James Douglas Rutherford McConnell was a language teacher and an author. Born in Kilkenny, Ireland 14 October 1915. He went to school in Yorkshire, studied at Clare College, Cambridge graduating in 1937, and received his MA from the University of Reading. During the Second World War, he served in the British Army Intelligence Corps in North Africa and Italy. After demobilisation, he became a modern languages teacher at Eton College from 1946 until his retirement in 1973.[1]

Writing on weekends and holidays, he published his first novel, Comes the Blind Fury, in 1950. Many of his works centered on race-tracks or sports cars. With Francis Durbridge, he co-authored two novels in the Paul Temple series: The Tyler Mystery in 1957 and East of Algiers in 1959. Under the name James McConnell, he published books on learning foreign languages and on Eton.

Series		Books

Paddy Regan		Comes The Blind Fury (1950)
		Meet A Body (1951)
		Telling Of Murder (1952)

Other		Battlefield Madonna (1985)
		The Benedictine Commando (1980)
		Best Motor Racing Stories (1965)
		The Black Leather Murders (1966)
		The Chequered Flag (1956)
		Clear the Fast Lane (1971)
		Collision Course (1978)
		The Creeping Flesh (1963)
		East of Algiers [Paul Temple] (1959)
		A Game of Sudden Death (1987)
		The Gilt-edged Cockpit (1969)
		Grand Prix Murder (1955)
		The Gunshot Grand Prix (1972)
		Kick Start (1973)
		Killer on the Track (1973)
		The Long Echo (1957)
		Murder Is Incidental (1961)
		Mystery Tour (1975)
		The Perilous Sky (1956)
		Porcupine Basin (1981)
		Race Against the Sun (1975)
		Rally to the Death (1974)
		Return Load (1977)
		A Shriek of Tyres aka On the Track of Death (1958)
		Skin for Skin (1968)
		Stop at Nothing (1983)
		Turbo (1980)
		The Tyler Mystery [Paul Temple] (1957)