John Cecil Masterman (1871-1977) was educated at the Royal Naval Colleges of Osborne and Dartmouth and at Worcester College, Oxford. He was a Modern History don at Christ Church, Oxford. He wrote just two books, both set at an imaginary Oxford College. In the first, his sleuth Ernest Brendel unravels a complex plot involving the shooting of a disliked tutor. In the second, Brendel returns to Oxford to recount to four friends the history of how a murder is planned and carried out.

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Bibliography

An Oxford Tragedy (1933)

The Case of the Four Friends (1957)