Augustus Muir (full name Charles Augustus Carlow Muir [1892-1982]) graduated from the University of Edinburgh and followed a career in letters, working as a novelist, historian, biographer, journalist, and editor. Following World War I, he became the editor of the World newspaper. He wrote a biography of Charles White, the anecdotal Scotland's Road of Romance: Travels in the Footsteps of Prince Charlie (1934), and several histories of industrial firms. In 1953, he edited How to Choose and Enjoy Wine. Muir had a brief try at screen-writing and was the coauthor with Joseph Krumgold of The Phantom Submarine (1940), which starred Bruce Bennett and Anita Louise.
He had a burst of popularity in the 1920s and 1930s (his entire mystery-writing career spanned only 1925-1940, with fifteen books published). Virtually all of Muir's mystery thrillers were set in Scotland. He also wrote two thrillers under the pseudonym Austin Moore: Birds of the Night (1930) and The House of Lies (1932), both of which were reissued as by Augustus Muir.
>From The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries, by Otto Penzler (2014)
Born | 1892 |
Died | 1982 |
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Born | 1892 |
Died | 1982 |
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Description and travel, Fiction, Biography, History, Baker Perkins Holdings, ltd, Booksellers and bookselling, Bowers Mills, C. F. Anderson and Son Limited, C.F. Anderson and Son Limited, Cadillacs, Coal mines and mining, Fiction, general, Fiction, short stories (single author), Great Britain, Great Britain. Army, Great Britain. Army. Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), Guidebooks, Horror tales, Hypnagogia, Iron industry and trade, Iron-founding, James Kenyon & Son, Juvenile literature, Lumber trade, Merchant marinePlaces
Scotland, England, Great Britain, Islington (London : England), Jamaica, London, Lothian (Scotland), Scottish highlandsPeople
Charles Edward Prince, grandson of James II, King of England (1720-1788), Carlos, Charles Cayzer Sir (1843-1916), Churchill and Sim, ltd, Ernest Valdemar, Jesus Christ, John White (1867-1951)Time
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- OLID: OL1109517A
- Wikidata: Q112507003
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- Austin Moore
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