Bruce Graeme

Graham Montague Jeffries, better known by his pseudonym Bruce Graeme, (23 May 1900 – 14 May 1982) was a British mystery writer with a prolific output of more than 100 novels. Graeme's son, the writer Roderic Jeffries (known under the pseudonym Roderic Graeme), continued writing novels using one of Bruce Graeme's most beloved characters, the anti-hero crime solving thief Blackshirt, which originally featured in a series of Blackshirt novels written by the elder Jeffries from 1923 through 1940.