- Author: Cedric Allingham Author Record # 37866
- Birthplace: Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
- Birthdate: 27 June 1922
- Deathdate: 1956
- Language: English
- Webpages: answers.com, melanierousselfiction.com, Wikipedia-EN
- Note: In fact a pseudonym by Surrey journalist Peter Davies and, most probably, Patrick Moore. His publishers claimed that Allingham was undergoing medical treatment in Switzerland, and then that he had died there in 1956.