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A prolific writer of great variety, Andrew Garve wrote novels of mystery, detection, thrills, espionage, and romance. His popular characters include Inspector James and the journalist Hugh Curtis.
Andrew Garve was born as Paul Winterton in Leicester. He was educated at the London School of Economics and at the London University, receiving his B.Sc. in Political Science and Economics in 1928. The following year, he became a staff member of The Economist and worked from 1933 to 1946 for the London News Chronicle. During World War II he was a foreign correspondent in Moscow.
His first book, A Student in Russia, appeared in 1931. His first crime novel, Death Beneath Jerusalem (1938), set in Palestine, was published under the pseudonym Roger Bax. Five other Bax books followed it. In Blueprint For Murder (1948) and A Grave Case of Murder (1951) the protagonist was Inspector James, and represented the author's expertness in the genre of pure detection novels. After 1951 most of his fiction was published under the name Andrew Garve, though he has written several novels as Paul Somers.