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Temple-Ellis, NA

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N. A. Temple-Ellis (1894-??), pseudonym of N(eville) A(ldridge) Holdaway, was an English author, Marxist theorist and schoolmaster. “One of the ablest Marxist writers we possess” says George Orwell in The Road to Wigan Pier. In 1935 he  was co-writer of the book Marxism together with, among others, GDH Cole.

 

In 1929 for The Inconsistent Villain the author was awarded first prize in Methuen’s Detective Story Competition, the judges being Bailey, HC, Knox, Ronald and Milne, AA. His series detectives are Montrose Arbuthnot and Inspector Wren.

 

Bibliography

The Inconsistent Villains (1929

The Cauldron Bubbles (1930

The Man Who Was There (1930)

Quest (1931)

Six Lines (1932)

The Case in Hand (1933)

The Hollow Land (1934

Three Went In (1934

Dead in No Time (1935)

Murder in the Ruins (1936).

Death of a Decent Fellow (1941)

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