Marten Cumberland

Sydney Walter Martin "Marten" Cumberland (23 July 1892 – 1972) was an English journalist, novelist and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonym Kevin O'Hara. He specialised in the detective/mystery genre and created the character of Inspector Saturnin Dax, a French policeman.

During World War I, Cumberland served as a radio operator in the Merchant Navy. After the war, he worked successively for several newspapers and publishing houses as a writer. He also composed some detective stories for various magazines. He became a freelance journalist in 1924.

In 1923, Cumberland published his first novel, Loaded Dice, which he co-wrote with B.V. Shann. He married Kathleen Walsh in 1928. In his last years, he moved to Dublin, where he died in 1972.

Bibliography

• Loaded Dice (with BV Shann) (1926)
• The Perilous Way (1926)
• Mate in Three Moves (1929)
• The Diary of Death (1932)
• The Sin of David (1932)
• The Dark House (1935)
• Devil's Snare (1935)
• The Impostor (1935)
• Murder at Midnight (with BV Shann) (1935)
• Shadowed (1936)
• Bird of Prey (1937)
• Someone Must Die (1940)
• Questionable Shape (1941)
• Quislings Over Paris (1942)
• The Knife Will Fall (1943)
• The Testing of Tony (1943)
• Everything He Touched (1945)
• Not Expected to Live (1945)
• Steps in the Dark (1945)
• A Lovely Corpse (1946)
• Darkness As a Bride (1947)
• Hearsed in Death (aka A Dilemma for Dax) (1947)
• And Worms Have Eaten Them (aka Hate Will Find a Way) (1948)
• And Then Came Fear (1949)
• The Crime School (1949)
• On the Danger List (1950)
• Policeman's Nightmare (1950)
• Confetti Red Can Be (aka The House in the Forest) (1951)
• The Man Who Covered Mirrors (1951)
• Booked for Death (aka Grave Consequences) (1952)
• Fade Out the Stars (1952)
• One Foot in the Grave (1952)
• The Charge Is Murder (1953)
• Etched in Violence (1953)
• Which of Us Is Safe? (aka Nobody Is Safe) (1953)
• The Frightened Brides (1954)
• Utterly Until Death (1954)
• Lying at Death's Door (1956)
• Far Better Dead! (1957)
• Hate for Sale (1957)
• Out of This World (1958)
• Murmurs in the Rue Morgue (1959)
• Remains to Be Seen (1960)
• There Must Be Victims (1961)
• Watch Out! Saturnin Dax (1962)
• Postscript to a Death (1963)
• Hate Finds a Way (1964)
• The Dice Were Loaded (1965)
• It's Your Funeral (1966)
• No Feeling in Murder (1966)

As Kevin O'Hara

• The Customer's Always Wrong (1951)
• Exit and Curtain (1952)
• Sing, Clubman, Sing! (1952)
• Always Tell the Truth (1953)
• It Leaves Them Cold (1954)
• Keep Your Fingers Crossed (1955)
• The Pace That Kills (1955)
• Women Like to Know (1957)
• Danger: Women at Work! (1958)
• Well, I'll Be Hanged! (1958)
• And Here Is the Noose! (1959)
• Taking Life Easy (1961)
• If Anything Should Happen (1962)
• Do not Tell the Police (1963)
• Do not Neglect the Body (1964)
• It's Your Funeral (1966)

External links

• Embden11.home.xs4all.nl
• Amazon.com