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Charles Kingston

Born

in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland

January 01, 1884

Died

November 09, 1944

Genre

Thriller, History

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Charles Kingston, born about 1884, was the pen name of Charles Kingston O'Mahoney.

Little is known of the man but he began his writing career with 'The Viceroys of Ireland', which was published under his own name Charles O'Mahoney in 1912.

He turned to crime fiction in 1921 when he wrote 'Stolen Virtue' and thereafter he wrote 25 twenty crime novels, 17 of them in the golden age of British crime fiction between the two world wars and eight in the 1940s. His final novel was 'Fear Followed On', published posthumously in 1945. Many of his books are set in London.

He died in 1944.

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Average rating: 3.19 · 707 ratings · 126 reviews · 58 distinct works • Similar authors

	Murder in Piccadilly (Chief Inspector Wake, #1) 3.13 avg rating — 622 ratings — published 1936 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Brighton Beach Mystery (Chief Inspector Wake, #2) 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Guilty House 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1928 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Highgate Mystery 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1929 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mystery in the Mist really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1942 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remarkable Rogues: The Career of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America 2.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2003 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Delacott Affair 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1941	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder Tunes In 2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1942 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder in Disguise (Chief Inspector Wake, #5) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1938	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Delitto a Piccadilly: Un giallo classico inglese inedito della Golden Age - Il primo caso in Italia dell’ispettore capo Wake by Charles Kingston, Marco Tiano (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The weak can often become strong in the hands of the unscrupulous.”
― Charles Kingston, Murder in Piccadilly

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