Milward Rodon Kennedy Burge (1894-1968) was an English civil servant, journalist and reviewer. He was educated at Winchester and New College Oxford. He served with British Military Intelligence in WW1 and then worked for the International Labor Office and the Egyptian government. He was London editor of the Empire Digest and reviewed mystery fiction for The Sunday Times. He retired in the 1960s to West Sussex. Burge married Georgina Lee in 1921 and after her death in 1924 married Eveline Schrieber Billiat in 1926. He also wrote as Evelyn Elder.

Kennedy specialised in police mysteries, but also wrote about the adventures of Sir George Bull, a professional private investigator. He also collaborated with other members of The Detection Club on The Floating Admiral and Ask a Policeman. His series characters are Sir George Bull and Inspector Cornford.

Bibliography

The Bleston Mystery (1928) with Archibald Gordon Macdonnell

The Corpse on the Mat (1929) aka Man who Rang the Bell

Corpse Guard Parade (1929)

Half Mast Murder (1930)

Death in a Deck-Chair (1930)

Death to the Rescue (1931)

The Floating Admiral (1931) with members of The Detection Club

The Murderer of Sleep (1932)

Bull's Eye (1933)

Ask a Policeman (1933) with members of The Detection Club

Corpse in Cold Storage (1934)

Poison in the Parish (1935)

Sic Transit Gloria (1936) aka Scornful Corpse

I'll be Judge, I'll be jury (1937)

It Began in New York (1943)

Escape to Quebec (1946)

The Top Boot (1950)

As Evelyn Elder

Murder in Black and White (1931)

Angel in the Case (1932)

Two's Company (1952)