Maitland Cecil Melville Wills (1891-1966) was an English author whose series character was Inspector Geoffrey Boscobell. Boscobell resigned from the police force after his wife and child were abducted and disappeared. Later he became a PI. Other series detectives were Superintendent Roger Ellerdine and his Detective Sergeant “Cherry” Blossom. Wills's books are pedestrian two-man investigations in the tradition of George Bellairs.

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Author in Distress (1934) aka Number 18

Death at the Pelican (1934)

Death Treads (1935)

Then Came the Police (1935)

The Chamois Murder (1935)

Fatal Accident (1936)

Defeat of a Detective (1936)

On the Night in Question (1937)

A Body in the Dawn (1938)

The Case of the Calabar Bean (1939)

The Case of the RE Pipe (1940)

The Clue of the Lost Hour (1949)

The Clue of the Golden Ear-Ring (1950)

Who Killed Brother Treasurer? (1951)

What Say the Jury? (1951)

The Dead Voice (1952)

It Pays to Die (1953)

Death on the Line (1954)

Death in the Dark (1955)

Midsummer Murder (1956)

The Tiger Strikes Again (1957)

Mere Murder (1958)

The Case of the Empty Beehive (1959)

Death of a Best Seller (1959)

The Colonel's Foxhound (1960)

Justice in Jeopardy (1961)