Alister McAllister

Born in Dublin, Ireland; Alister McAllister became chief clerk in the National University, 1908-14; also acted as librarian; began writing plays under pseud. Henry Alexander, issuing Irene Wycherly (1906; var. 1907); also At the Barn (1912), with Marie Tempest, as well as others less successful; joined the British Army in 1914; wounded twice in machine-gun corps; settled in England after the First World War; wrote novels as Anthony Wharton, viz., The Man on the Hill (1923), dealing with society under stress of war; also The Two of Diamonds (1926), and detective novels as pseud. Lynn Brock, viz., The Deductions of Col. Gore (1925), followed by His Second Case; Third Case; The Kink and The Mendip Mystery; another play, The O’Cuddy (Abbey 1943), with Cyril Cusack, F. J. MacCormack, and Gerard Healy, closed after a week; lived for some time in Devon; died in Surrey, UK. - Source:http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/Mc/McAllister_A/life.htm