{"death_date": "16 January 1941", "personal_name": "Macdonell, A. G.", "key": "/authors/OL209508A", "source_records": ["promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-10-24", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2020-11-19"], "remote_ids": {"viaf": "24036", "wikidata": "Q4647799", "isni": "0000000107963190"}, "links": [{"title": "entry at Golden Age of Detection", "url": "http://gadetection.pbworks.com/w/page/132211191/Macdonell%2C%20Archibald%20Gordon", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "A G Macdonell: The all-but forgotten Scots fiction writer | The National", "url": "https://www.thenational.scot/news/17556753.ag-macdonell-all-but-forgotten-scots-fiction-writer/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "alternate_names": ["Neil Gordon", "Archibald Gordon Macdonell", "John Cameron", "Archibald Gordon MacDonell", "A. G. MacDonell", "A. G Macdonell", "A G macDonell", "A G Macdonell", "A. G. MACDONELL", "A. G. MacDonnell"], "name": "A. G. Macdonell", "birth_date": "3 November 1895", "bio": "Archibald Gordon Macdonell was a Scottish writer, journalist, and broadcaster. He was born in Poona, India, to a Scottish family. He served as a lieutenant of the Royal Field Artillery during World War I. He then joined the League of Nations in 1922. He later made his living as a journalist in London, writing stage reviews for the *London Mercury*.\r\nHe became famous in 1933 for the publication of the satirical novel *England, their England*. Also highly praised is his *Autobiography of a Cad*, a grimly comic portrait of a 1930s Tory. He also wrote a number of novels and plays, as well as some military history. \r\n\r\nUnder the pseudonym of **Neil Gordon** he wrote five detective novels, including a Buchanesque political thriller called *The Factory on the Cliff* (1928); and *The Bleston Mystery* (1928) done in collaboration with Milward Kennedy, one of the founders of the Detection Club. Under the pen name **John Cameron** he wrote two other detective novels: *Seven Stabs* (1929) and *Body Found Stabbed* (1932).\r\nA. G. Macdonell died in Oxford in 1941.\r\n\r\nBibliography\r\n\r\nThe Bleston Mystery (1928) - with Milward Kennedy\r\n\r\nAs Neil Gordon:\r\nThe Professor\u2019s Poison (1928)\r\nThe Factory on the Cliff (1928), US title: The New Gun Runners\r\nThe Silent Murders (1929)\r\nThe Big Ben Alibi (1930)\r\nMurder in Earl's Court (1931)\r\nThe Shakespeare Murders (1933)\r\n\r\nAs John Cameron:\r\nSeven Stabs (1929)\r\nBody Found Stabbed (1932)\r\n\r\n As A.G. Macdonell:\r\n(strictly adventure & military novels)\r\nLords & Masters (1936)\r\nFlight from a Lady (1939)\r\nThe Crew of the Anaconda (1940)", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-10-24T18:13:10.321694"}}