Nigel Morland (1905-1986) was a self-educated English editor and a friend of Edgar Wallace. He covered the Far East as a journalist and began his writing career with a thriller featuring Palmyra Pym, the female deputy assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard. He also wrote non-fiction books on criminology. Morland also wrote under the pseudonyms Mary Dane, John Donavan, Norman Forrest, Roger Garnett, Neal Shepherd, and Vincent McCall.
His series characters were John Finnegan, Detective Inspector Rory Luccan, Steven Malone, Inspector Andy McMurdo, Johnny Lamb and Mrs Palmyra Pym.
Bibliography
The Moon Murders (1935)
The Phantom Gunman (1935)
The Street of the Leopard (1936)
The Clue of the Bricklayer's Aunt (1936)
The Clue in the Mirror (1937)
The Case Without a Clue (1938)
A Rope for the Hanging (1938)
A Knife for the Killer (1939) aka Murder at Radio City
A Gun for a God (1940) aka Murder in Wardour Street
The Clue of the Careless Hangman (1940) aka The Careless Hangman
Dumb Alibi (1941)
The Corpse on the Flying Trapeze (1941)
A Coffin for the Body (1943)
Death Takes a Star (1943)
The Sooper's Cases (1943)
The Laboratory Murder (1944)
Corpse in the Circus (1945)
Murder Runs Wild (1946)
The Corpse in the Circus and Other Stories (1946)
Strangely She Died (1946)
The Big Killing (1946)
Mrs. Pym of Scotland Yard (1946)
How Many Coupons for a Shroud (1946)
26 Three Minute Thrillers (1947)
Dressed to Kill (1947)
The Hatchet Murders (1947)
The Case of the Innocent Wife (1947)
She Didn't Like Dying (1948)
Fish Are So Trusting (1948)
No Coupons for a Shroud (1949)
Two Dead Charwomen (1949)
Death Takes an Editor (1949)
The Corpse Was No Lady (1950)
Blood on the Stars (1951)
Death When She Wakes (1951)
He Hanged His Mother on Monday (1951)
The Lady Had a Gun (1951)
Call Him Early for Murder (1952)
A Girl Died Singing (1952)
The Moon Was Made for Murder (1953)
Sing a Song of Cyanide (1953)
Death for Sale (1957)
Look in Any Doorway (1957)
A Bullet for Midas (1958)
Death and the Golden Boy (1958)
Death to the Ladies (1959)
The Concrete Maze (1960)
So Quiet to Death (1960)
The Dear Dead Girls (1961)
As Norman Forrest
Death Took a Publisher (1937)
Death Took a Greek God (1937)
As John Donavan
The Case of the Rusted Room (1937)
The case of the Beckoning Dead (1938)
The Case of the Talking Dust (1938)
The Case of the Coloured Wind (1939) aka The Case of the Violet Smoke
The Case of the Plastic Man (1940) aka The Case of the Plastic Mask
The Dead Have No Friends (1952)
As Roger Garnett
Death in Piccadilly (1937)
Starr Bedford Dies (1937)
The Killing of Paris Norton (1938)
The Croaker (1938)
Danger Death at Work (1939)
A Man Died Talking (1943)
Death Spoke Sweetly (1946)
Eve Finds the Killer (1947)
Dusky Death (1948)
As Neal Shepherd
Death Flies Low (1938)
Death Walks Softly (1938)
Death Rides Swiftly (1939)
Exit to Music (1940)
As Vincent McCall
Eleven Thrilling Mysteries (1945)
Smash and Grab (1946)
As Mary Dane
Death Traps the Killer (1938)
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