Kenneth Giles (1922–1974) was a British crime writer. Giles wrote books under his own name, as well as the pseudonyms Charles Drummond and Edmund McGirr.[citation needed]
Giles started as a sporting journalist, and used what he learned there as background for the Drummond novels. The Drummond books star Sgt. Reed, while the McGirr books star a private detective.[citation needed]
In a New York Times review of Death among the Stars, the American crime fiction critic Allen J. Hubin writes "It will be a long while before I have had enough of Mr. Giles." The American critic Anthony Boucher, in a New York Times review of A Provenance of Death, Giles' first novel to be published in the United States, describes the author as "promising", and the novel's detective as a "real working pro".
Incomplete bibliography
Some Beasts No More (1965)
The Big Greed (1966)
A Provenance of Death (1966)
The Funeral Was in Spain (1966) (as Edmund McGirr)
Death at the Furlong Post (1967) (as Charles Drummond)
Death in Diamonds (1967)
Death and Mr. Prettyman (1967)
The Lead-Lined Coffin (1968) (as Edmund McGirr)
The Odds on Death (1969) (as Charles Drummond)
Here Lies My Wife (1967) (as Edmund McGirr)
A Hearse with Horses (1967) (as Edmund McGirr)
Death among the Stars (1968)
Death Cracks a Bottle (1969)
Death and the Leaping Ladies (1969) (as Charles Drummond)
