Max Pemberton

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Sir Max Pemberton (1863-1950) was a popular British novelist, working mainly in the adventure and mystery genres. He was educated at St Albans School, Merchant Taylors' School, and Caius College, Cambridge. A Clubman journalist and a dandy (Lord Northcliffe admired his 'fancy vests'), he frequented both Fleet Street and the Savage Club.

Sir Max Pemberton was the editor of boys' magazine Chums in its heyday, and Cassell's Magazine from 1896 to 1906, in which capacity he published the early works of Austin Freeman, Clifford Ashdown and William Le Queux.

His most famous work The Iron Pirate was a bestseller of the early 1890s, and he became a prolific professional writer. It was the story of a great gas-driven iron-clad, which could outpace the navies of the world and terrorized the Atlantic. It was followed by Captain Black (1911).

He founded the London School of Journalism in 1920, wrote a life of Lord Northcliffe and was knighted.

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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Early Detective Stories, ed. Hugh Greene (Penguin, 1971)