Alfred Walter Stewart
b. 1880 – d. 1947 · 27 books
Biography
Alfred Walter Stewart (5 September 1880 – 1 July 1947) was a Scottish chemist, academic, and part-time novelist who wrote seventeen detective novels and a pioneering science fiction work between 1923 and 1947 under the pseudonym of J. J. Connington. He created several fictional detectives, including Superintendent Ross and Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield. [Wikipedia]
He was born in Glasgow and educated at the universities of Glasgow, Marburg, and London. He was Professor of Chemistry from 1919 to 1944 at Queen's University, Belfast, and author of a number of respected treatises on chemistry.
As J. J. Connington, he wrote over twenty detective stories, beginning with *Death at Swaythling Court* (1926), in which the investigation is usually carried out either by Superintendent Ross (*The Eye in the Museum*, 1929; *The Two Tickets Puzzle*, 1930) or, more often, by Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield (*Murder in the Maze*, 1927; *The Sweepstake Murders*, 1931). As Connington he also published an unusual science fiction novel, *Nordenholt's Millions* (1923). - from https://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/3659/J-J-Connington-pseudonym-Alfred-Walter-Stewart.html
He was born in Glasgow and educated at the universities of Glasgow, Marburg, and London. He was Professor of Chemistry from 1919 to 1944 at Queen's University, Belfast, and author of a number of respected treatises on chemistry.
As J. J. Connington, he wrote over twenty detective stories, beginning with *Death at Swaythling Court* (1926), in which the investigation is usually carried out either by Superintendent Ross (*The Eye in the Museum*, 1929; *The Two Tickets Puzzle*, 1930) or, more often, by Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield (*Murder in the Maze*, 1927; *The Sweepstake Murders*, 1931). As Connington he also published an unusual science fiction novel, *Nordenholt's Millions* (1923). - from https://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/3659/J-J-Connington-pseudonym-Alfred-Walter-Stewart.html
Books by Alfred Walter Stewart
Dangerfield Talisman
Dangerfield Talisman
No Past Is Dead
No Past Is Dead
The Ha-Ha Case
The Ha-Ha Case
Common Sense Is All You Need
Common Sense Is All You Need
Four Defences
The Case with Nine Solutions
The Tau Cross Mystery
The Tau Cross Mystery
Murder in the Maze
The Boat-House Riddle
Nemesis at Raynham Parva
Nemesis at Raynham Parva
The Two Tickets Puzzle
The Two Tickets Puzzle
Alias J. J. Connington
Alias J. J. Connington
Nordenholt's Million
The Twenty-One Clues
The Twenty-One Clues
Truth comes limping
Truth comes limping
A Minor Operation
A Minor Operation
Tom Tiddler's Island
In Whose Dim Shadow
In Whose Dim Shadow
Gold Brick Island
Gold Brick Island
The Castleford Conundrum
The Castleford Conundrum
The Omnibus J. J. Connington
The Omnibus J. J. Connington
The Omnibus J. J. Connington (The Two Tickets Puzzle / Mystery at Lynden Sands /The Case with Nine Solutions / Nemesis at Raynham Parva)
Tragedy at Ravensthorpe
A manual of practical chemistry
Recent advances in physical and inorganic chemistry
Belfast harbour. Its history
Belfast harbour. Its history
The Counsellor