Arthur J. Rees

Arthur John Rees (1872–1942), was an Australian mystery writer.

Born in Melbourne, he was for a short time on the staff of the Melbourne Age and later joined the staff of the New Zealand Herald.

In his early twenties he likely went to England.^[1]

His proficiency as a writer of crime-mystery stories is attested by Dorothy Sayers in the introduction to Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, 1928. Two of his stories were included in an American world-anthology of detective stories. Some of his works were translated into French and German.

Bibliography

• The Merry Marauders (1913)
• The Hampstead Mystery (1916) [with John Rea Watson]
• The Shrieking Pit (1919)
• The Mystery of the Downs (1928) [with John Rea Watson]
• The Hand in the Dark (1920)
• The Moon Rock (1922)
• The Island of Destiny (1923)
• The Cup of Silence (1924)
• The Threshold of Fear (1925)
• Simon of Hangletree (1926)
• Greymarsh (1927)
• Love me Anise (1928)
• Old Sussex and her Diarists (1929)
• The Pavilion by the Lake (1930)
• The Brink (1931)
• The Tragedy of Twelvetrees (1931)
• The Investigations of Colwin Grey (1932)
• The River Mystery (1932)
• Peak House (1933)
• Aldringham's Last Chance (1933)
• The Flying Argosy 1934)
• The Single Clue (1940)

References

• E. Morris Miller, Australian Literature: A Bibliography to 1938, Extended to 1950. Edited by Frederick T. Macartney. (Angus and Roberson, Sydney 1956)

External links

• Works by Arthur John Rees at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Arthur J. Rees at Internet Archive
• Works by Arthur J. Rees at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)