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Galwey, GV

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G(eoffrey) V(alentine) Galwey was born in India in 1912, where his Irish father was serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He joined the Navy in 1926 and after an accident was invalided out in 1932. He found his way into advertising, sold space in a journal, then joined the Fleet Street advertising agency Lovell & Rupert Curtis and finally became a director in 1936. In WW II after various jobs and tasks he took part in the invasion in 1944. After the war Galwey returned to the advertising agency and wrote three novels in his spare time. Murder on Leave (1947), The Lift and the Drop (1948), were reprinted as Penguins, the third, Full Fathom Five (1951) has a good account of the Normandy landing in 1944. He died in 1996.

 

On Galwey's detective Chief Inspector Bourne of Scotland Yard TJ Binyon,TJ in Murder Will Out says:

"Another Scot is GV Galwey's (b. 1912) detective, Chief Inspector 'Daddy' Bourne, more paternal than avuncular. He appears in three novels, of which Murder on Leave (1946) is the first. If his nickname indicates his closeness to the Inspector French prototype, he is at the same time differentiated from it by his other characteristics: he reads Trollope in his spare time, and has an intriguing relationship, pursued throughout the novels, with two women, a mother —- whom he marries in the last book -— and her journalist daughter."

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Murder on Leave (1946)

The Lift and the Drop (1948)

Full Fathom Five (1951)

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