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J.M. Walsh Judi Abbot

James Morgan Walsh, born 1897 to 1952, also wrote as H Haverstock Hill, Stephen Maddock, George M White, Jack Carew He was born Geelong and educated in Melbourne, is best known as an extremely prolific writer of crime mysteries, mostly located in England His first novel, Tap Tap Island 1921 , was first serialised in the Melbourne Leader, his second, The Lost Valley 1921 , was a prize winner in the C.J De Garis competition his third was Overdue 1925 After experience in auctioneering and book selling, Walsh visited England in 1925 to negotiate with publishers, returned to Victoria but left for permanent residence in England in 1929 Pseudonyms he used include John Carew , George M White and H Haverstock Hill he also wrote in collaboration with E.J Blythe and Audry Baldwin His first three novels, which are adventure romances, are set in New Guinea and western Victoria and he also wrote two Australian detective stories, The Man behind the Curtain 1927 and The League of Missing Men 1927 The five adventure stories that he wrote under the pseudonym H Haverstock Hill , Anne of Flying Gap 1926 , Spoil of the Desert 1927 , The Golden Isle 1928 , Golden Harvest 1929 and The Secret of the Crater 1930 , range between New Guinea, the Northern Territory, Gippsland, WA and the South Seas.