Carr, Glyn


Glyn Carr was a pseudonym of English author Frank Showell Styles (1908-2005). Styles was born in Warwickshire and educated in Sutton Coldfield. He married Kathleen Jane Humphreys in 1954. He was an explorer and mountaineer and wrote many non-fiction books. His series character was Sir Abercrombie Lewker, who also appeared in two of the titles under the Styles name.

 

A web page on Carr can be found here, and a review of his work here.

 

Bibliography

 

 

Death on the Milestone Buttress (1951)

Murder on the Matterhorn (1951)

The Youth Hostel Murders (1952)

The Corpse in the Crevasse (1952)

Death Under Snowdon (1952)

A Corpse at Camp Two (1954)

Murder of an Owl (1956)

The Ice Axe Murders (1958)

Swing Away Climber (1959)

Holiday with Murder (1960)

Death Finds a Foothold (1961)

Lewker in Norway (1963)

Death of a Weirdy (1965)

Lewker in Tirol (1967)

Fat Man's Agony (1969)

 

As Showell Styles

Traitor's Mountain (1945)

Kidnap Castle (1946)

Hammer Island (1947)

Dark Hazard (1948)