Robert George Dean

Robert George Dean (died 1989) was an American author of detective fiction. He also worked as a journalist, and as an ambulance driver during World War II.

The last few books Dean wrote, under the pseudonym George Griswold, are spy novels that still have a certain fan following. A character known as Mr. Groode, a shadowy British spymaster, figures in all four novels, but his prominence in the plot varies widely from book to book.

Works
Tony Hunter series
 * Murder Makes a Merry Widow (1938)
 * A Murder of Convenience (1938)
 * Murder Through the Looking Glass (1940)
 * A Murder by Marriage (1940)
 * Murder in Mink (1941)
 * Layoff (1942)
 * On Ice (1942)
 * The Body Was Quite Cold (Dutton, 1951)
 * The Case of Joshua Locke (Dutton, 1951)
 * Affair at Lover's Leap (aka Death at Lover's Leap) (Doubleday’s Crime Club, 1953)

other
 * Murder Most Opportune
 * Murder on Margin
 * Three Lights Went Out
 * What Gentleman Strangles a Lady
 * The Sutton Place Murders

He also wrote four books under the pseudonym George Griswold:


 * A Checkmate for the Colonel (1952)
 * A Gambit for Mr. Groode (1953)
 * Red Pawns (1954)
 * The Pinned Man (1954)