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Warriner, Thurman

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Thurman Warriner (1904-1974) was an English author whose series character, John Franklin Cornelius Scotter, runs the most disreputable PI agency in London. Other characters include Charles Ambo and Archdeacon Toft.

From the Penguin edition of The Doors of Sleep of 1961:

Thurman Warriner had a brief theatrical career in his early youth; he has also been a poultry farmer and a cinema technician. During the war he worked in an aircraft factory.

Later, on the strength of fifty short stories published in pre-war years, he gave up his job to devote himself to full-time writing. In his detective novels, he is interested not so much in police methods and procedure as in the way life contrives to make saints and murderers out of the same basic material.

Mr. Warriner's style is never tense, his approach is easy, at times almost over-casual. With Edmund Crispin and, to a lesser degree, Julian Symons, he represents the modern school of murder with more than a dash of philosophy, fooling around, and fun. This product is essentially British. --- Scott, Sutherland - Blood in Their Ink (1953)