Biography
Douglas Gordon Browne was a British writer of detective fiction and non-fiction. He was the son of Gordon Browne, R.I., R.B.A., and grandson of Hablot K. Browne, better known as "Phiz." Although brought up as a painter, at the age of 27, shortly before WWI, Mr Browne started writing short stories. He went on to produce a number of detective stories, several of which featured the archaeologist and amateur detective Major Hemyock, or the Mephistophelean public prosecutor Harvey Tuke.