Herbert Adams (novelist)

Herbert Adams (1874–1958) was an English writer of fifty 'cosy' mystery novels, 28 featuring the detective Roger Bennion, a golfer and amateur sleuth whose cases are often set in or around golfing competitions; and 9 feature Jimmie Haswell, a London lawyer. He also wrote short stories, humorous verse and two other mystery novels under the pseudonym Jonathan Gray.

As 'Jonathan Gray'

 * 'Safety Last' (1934)
 * 'The Owl' (1937)

Jimmie Haswell Novels

 * 'The Secret of Bogey House' (1924)
 * 'The Crooked Lip' (1926)
 * 'The Queen's Gate Mystery' (1927)
 * 'The Empty Bed'(1928)
 * 'Rogues Fall Out'(1928)
 * 'The Golden Ape' (1930)
 * 'The Crime in the Dutch Garden' (1931)
 * 'The Paulton Plot' (1932)
 * 'The Woman in Black' (1933)

Roger Bennion Novels

 * 'Death Off the Fairway' (1936)
 * 'The Old Jew Mystery' (1936)
 * 'A Single Hair' (1937)
 * 'The Bluff' (1938)
 * 'The Damned Spot' (1938)
 * 'Black Death' (1939)
 * 'The Nineteenth Hole Mystery' (1939)
 * 'The Case of the Stolen Bridegroom' (1940)
 * 'The Chief Witness' (1940)
 * 'Stab in the Back' (1941)
 * 'Roger Bennion's Double' (1941)
 * 'The Araway Oath' (1942)
 * 'Signal for Invasion' (1942)
 * 'Victory Song' (1943)
 * 'Four Winds' (1944)
 * 'The Writing on the Wall' (1945)
 * 'Diamonds Are Trumps' (1947)
 * 'Crime Wave at Little Cornford' (1948)
 * 'One to Play' (1949)
 * 'The Dean's Daughters' (1950)
 * 'The Sleeping Draught' (1951)
 * 'Exit the Skeleton' (1952)
 * 'The Spectre in Brown' (1953)
 * 'Slippery Dick' (1954)
 * 'The Judas Kiss' (1955)
 * 'Welcome Home!' (1956)
 * 'Death on the First Tee' (1957)
 * 'Death of a Viewer' (1958)

Non-Series Novels

 * 'A Virtue of Necessity' (1900)
 * 'By Order of the Five' (1925)
 * 'The Sloane Square Mystery' (1925)
 * 'Comrade Jill' (1926)
 * 'The Perfect Round' (1927). Short stories
 * 'Caroline Ormesby's Crime' (1930). Serialised: Birmingham Daily Gazette, 'Caroline Hits Back' (1930)
 * 'Oddways' (1930)
 * 'A Lady So Innocent' (1932)
 * 'John Brand's Will' (1933). US Title: The Golf House Murder
 * 'The Knife' (1934). US Title: The Strange Murder of Hatton, K.C.
 * 'Mystery and Minette' (1934)
 * 'The Body in the Bunker' (1935)
 * 'Fate Laughs' (1935)
 * 'A Word of Six Letters' (1936). US Title: Murder Without Risk
 * 'The Lovely Lucinda'. Serialised: Weekly Telegraph (1937)
 * 'The Scarlet Feather' (1943)
 * 'Murder Most Just' (1956)

Short stories

 * 'A Lady-Killer'. Young Man, 21 July 1900
 * 'A Child of Cheshire'. Young Woman, 5 October 1900
 * 'A Consignment from Yarmouth'. Beverley & East Riding Recorder, 3 August 1907
 * 'TITLE UNKNOWN'. Weekly Telegraph Christmas Annual (1931)