Leonard R. Gribble
1 February 1908 - 27 September 1985
Leonard Gribble was born in 1908 in Barnstaple, Devon, England. He was a prolific author who wrote under several pseudonyms. He served in the Press and Censorship Division of the Ministry of Information in London from 1940-45. He was a founding member of the Crime Writers Association in 1953, and also wrote Westerns (under the name Landon Grant) and books on nonfiction subjects such as criminology, as well as producing compilations and editorial works.
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Such Lethal Ladies
3 editions - first published in 1985 -
The Case of the Marsden Rubies
2 editions - first published in 1930 -
Famous feats of detection and deduction
2 editions - first published in 1933 -
Great manhunters of the Yard
2 editions - first published in 1966 -
The Jesus of the poets
2 editions - first published in 1930 -
The Secret of Tangles
2 editions - first published in 1934 -
Such women are deadly
2 editions - first published in 1965 -
The case of the Malverne diamonds
1 edition - first published in 1937 -
Clues that spelled guilty
1 edition - first published in 1961 -
Compelled to kill
1 edition - first published in 1977 -
Crime stranger than fiction
1 edition - first published in 1981 -
The dead end killers
1 edition - first published in 1978 -
The deadly professionals
1 edition - first published in 1976 -
Death pays the piper
1 edition - first published in 1958 -
Don't argue with death
1 edition - first published in 1959 -
Famous detective feats
1 edition - first published in 1971 -
Famous historical mysteries
1 edition - first published in 1969 -
Famous judges and their trials
1 edition - first published in 1957 -
Famous mysteries of detection
1 edition - first published in 1976 -
Famous mysteries of modern times
1 edition - first published in 1976 -
The frightened Chameleon
1 edition - first published in 1957 -
The hallmark of horror
1 edition - first published in 1973 -
Hands of terror
1 edition - first published in 1960 -
The man from Manhattan
1 edition - first published in 1935 -
More famous historical mysteries
1 edition - first published in 1972 -
Murders most strange
1 edition - first published in 1959 -
Notorious killers in the night
1 edition - first published in 1983 -
Profiles from notable modern biographies
1 edition - first published in 1946 -
Queens of crime
1 edition - first published in 1932 -
The serpentine murder
1 edition - first published in 1932 -
Sisters of Cain
1 edition - first published in 1972 -
Speed Dermot
1 edition - first published in 1951 -
Stand-in for murder
1 edition - first published in 1958 -
Strange crimes of passion
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
Such was their guilt
1 edition - first published in 1974 -
The terrace suicide mystery
1 edition - first published in 1929 -
They came to kill
1 edition - first published in 1979 -
They challenged the Yard
1 edition - first published in 1963 -
They conspired to kill
1 edition - first published in 1975 -
They got away with murder
1 edition - first published in 1971 -
They had a way with women
1 edition - first published in 1968 -
They Shot to Slay
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
The true book about Scotland Yard
1 edition - first published in 1957 -
The true book about the Mounties
1 edition - first published in 1963 -
Wantons die hard
1 edition - first published in 1961 -
Who killed Oliver Cromwell?
1 edition - first published in 1937 -
Adventures in murder undertaken by some notorious killers in love
1 edition - first published in 1954 -
Great detective exploits
1 edition - first published in 1958 -
Famous feats of espionage
1 edition - first published in 1972 -
Heroes of the merchant navy
1 edition - first published in 1944 -
Epics of the fighting R. A. F
1 edition - first published in 1943 -
When killers err
1 edition - first published in 1962 -
Atomic murder
1 edition - first published in 1947 Borrow
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Subjects
Case studies,
Murder,
Fiction,
Police,
Police in fiction,
Biography,
Crime,
Great Britain,
Crime and criminals,
Detectives,
Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office. Criminal Investigation Dept,
Women murderers,
World War, 1939-1945,
Accessible book,
Aerial operations,
Assassination,
Conspiracies,
Crime passionnel,
Criminal investigation,
Curiosities and wonders,
English Religious poetry,
Female offenders,
Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office. Criminal Investigation Department,
Great Britain. Royal Air Force,
Guilt
Places
People
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Alternative names
- Sterry Browning
- James Gannett
- Landon Grant
- Leo Grex
- Louis Grey
- Piers Marlowe
- Dexter Muir
- Bruce Sanders
History Created April 1, 2008 · 3 revisions
| December 13, 2008 | Edited by caf21 | Added pseudonyms, added full name, added location, completed birth date, added death date, added bio |
| August 19, 2008 | Edited by an anonymous user | fix author name |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |