Gask, Arthur
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1869-1951) UK-born dental surgeon and author who began his latter career in the early 1921, after his 1920 move to Australia. Among his many detective thrillers are two tales of some sf interest, The Red Paste Murders (1924; vt Murder in the Night 1932), the eponymous chemical being of borderline-sf composition, and The Fall of a Dictator (1939), which ventures into the Near Future. [JC]
Arthur Cecil Gask
born London: 10 July 1869
died Adelaide, South Australia: 24 June 1951
works
- The Red Paste Murders (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1924) [hb/]
- Murder in the Night (New York: The Macaulay Company, 1932) [vt of the above: hb/]
- The Fall of a Dictator (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1939) [hb/]
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