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Vernon Loder


Born
in Belfast, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1881

Died
January 01, 1938

Genre
Crime


Vernon Loder was a pseudonym for John Haslette Vahey, an Anglo-Irish writer who also wrote as Henrietta Clandon, John Haslette, Anthony Lang, John Mowbray, Walter Proudfoot and George Varney.

Vahey started his working life as an apprentice architect, then an accountant before finally turning to writing fiction full-time.

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Average rating: 3.76 · 1,277 ratings · 105 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors
The Mystery at Stowe
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3.80 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 1928 — 13 editions
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The Vase Mystery
3.82 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1929 — 5 editions
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Between Twelve and One
4.12 avg rating — 136 ratings — 4 editions
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The Shop Window Murders
3.51 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 1930 — 7 editions
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The Essex Murders
3.77 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1930 — 3 editions
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The Case of the Dead Doctor
3.47 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Murder from Three Angles
3.93 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1934 — 2 editions
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Death at the Wheel
3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1933
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The Vernon Loder Collection...
4.29 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Death of an Editor
3.47 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1931 — 3 editions
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“had by now been worked up into that contentious frame of mind which makes controversialists ready to deny the fact of their own existence if”
― Vernon Loder, The Vase Mystery
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