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Hedges, Sid G

(1897-1974) UK author, mostly of detective thrillers; of interest are The Channel Tunnel Mystery (1931), which does not actually incorporate the eponymous tunnel, and the Near Future Plague Panic (1934), in which criminals seeking vast sums of blackmail threaten to infect the entire world with the eponymous bacillus, creating a deadly Pandemic. [JC]

Sidney George Hedges

born Bicester, Oxfordshire: 25 March 1897

died Oxford, Oxfordshire: 19 July 1974

works

• The Channel Tunnel Mystery (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1931) [hb/]
• Plague Panic (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1934) [hb/Richard Charles]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 23:05 pm on 3 March 2026.
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