Yates - Dornford 01

Signed page - (1885-1960) Writer of novels and short stories, the humorous ones entitled the Berry books and the thrillers entitled the Chandos books, which were best-sellers in the twenty-one year interwar period between the First and Second World Wars.

His third-class Oxford law degree was insufficient to gain him traditional access to the bar so his father found him work in a practice that often required his appearing in court on behalf of the police commissioner, where he saw much of the seedy side of London life, some of which is evident in his novels. Wrote The Courts of Idleness, She Fell Among Thieves, An Eye for a Tooth, Blind Corner, Lower than Vermin...