S. J. Simon
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S. J. Simon (Simon Jasha Skidelsky) (born 1904 in Harbin, Manchuria, died 1948) was a British writer.
He became celebrated as a bridge player, representing Britain in numerous championships, joint inventor of the Acol bidding system, and author of the classic Why You Lose at Bridge.
He is now better known for his collaboration with Caryl Brahms in a series of comic novels, beginning with A Bullet in the Ballet, which introduced the phlegmatic Inspector Adam Quill and the eccentric members of Vladimir Stroganoff’s ballet company. The same characters appeared in Casino for Sale (1938), Envoy on Excursion (1940) and Six Curtains for Stroganova (1945). Brahms and Simon also wrote what they called ‘backstairs history’ producing their own idiosyncratic retellings of history – Elizabethan (No Bed for Bacon, 1941), Victorian (Don’t, Mr Disraeli, 1940), and Queen Anne to George V (No Nightingales).
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