The Secret of the Sandhills - Softcover

Gask, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150251348X ISBN 13: 9781502513489

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Arthur Cecil Gask (1869—1951), dentist and novelist. He began writing crime fiction while waiting for his patients and in 1921 paid for the publication of his first novel, The Secret of the Sandhills, which was an immediate success. Over a period of forty years Gask wrote over thirty books as well as contributing short stories to The Mail in Adelaide. Most of his novels described the activities of a detective, Gilbert Larose, in solving crimes. Gask's work was translated into several European languages, serialised in newspapers and broadcast on radio. He also wrote short stories. H. G. Wells, an admirer of Gask's work, corresponded with Gask. Wells regarded The Vengeance of Larose (1939) as Gask's "best piece of story-telling...It kept me up till half-past one." Bertrand Russell, also an admiring reader, called to see Gask at Gask's home in Walkerville, an Adelaide suburb, when he was in Adelaide in August 1950.

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About the Author:

About The Author Arthur Cecil Gask was born in England and trained in dentistry before moving to Australia in 1920. The publication of his first novel, The Secret of the Sand Hills (1921), was self-funded and sold out within weeks. Gask went on to write more than 30 crime and detective novels.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 150251348X
• ISBN 13: 9781502513489
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118