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Roger Bax


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AKA: Andrew Garve, Paul Somers

Roger Bax was the pen name of Paul Winterton (1908-2001), who also wrote as Andrew Garve and Paul Somers. He was born in Leicester and educated at the Hulme Grammar School, Manchester and Purley County School, Surrey, after which he took a degree in Economics at London University. He was on the staff of The Economist for four years, and then worked for fourteen years for the London News Chronicle as reporter, leader writer and foreign correspondent. He was assigned to Moscow from 1942 to 1945, where he was also the correspondent of the BBC’s Overseas Service.

After the war he turned to full-time writing of detective and adventure novels and produced more than forty-five books. His work was serialized, televised, ...more

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Blueprint for Murder
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Came The Dawn
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A Grave Case of Murder
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The Broken Jigsaw
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Death Beneath Jerusalem
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Disposing of Henry
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Two if By Sea
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The Trouble with Murder
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