Geoffrey Homes was a pseudonym for Daniel Mainwaring (1902-1977), an American novelist and screenwriter. He was born in California, and attended Fresno University. He held various jobs, including migrant fruit picker, private investigator and reporter, before turning to writing in the thirties. He subsequently became a screenwriter for movies.

Homes's series characters were Jose Manuel Madero, LA reporter Robin Bishop and PI Humphrey Campbell. Bishop eventually marries Mary Huston, a secretary at the Morgan Missing Persons Bureau detective agency.

Bibliography

The Man Who Murdered Himself (1936)

The Doctor Died at Dusk (1936)

The Man Who Didn't Exist (1937)

The Man Who Murdered Goliath (1938)

Then There Were Three (1938)

No Hands on the Clock (1939)

Finders Keepers (1940)

Forty Whacks (1941) aka Stiffs Don't Vote

The Street of the Crying Woman (1942) aka Seven Died, The Case of the Mexican Knife

The Hill of the Terrified Monk (1943) aka Dead As a Dummy

Six Silver Handles (1944) aka The Case of the Unhappy Angels

Build My Gallows High (1946)

As Daniel Mainwaring

One Against the Earth (1933)