![]() ![]() Laurence Meynell must be the most prolific writer Wolverhampton has ever produced. His series characters were George Stanhope Berkely and Hooky Heffernan.Ī memoir and an appreciation of his work can be found here. ![]() He wrote many other books including juvenile fiction. Hooky Hefferman Books In Order Danger Round the Corner (1952) The Frightened Man (1952) Too Clever By Half (1953) Death by Arrangement (1972) The Thirteen. ![]() He married Shirley Ruth Darbishire in 1932 and Joan Belfrage in 1936. He served in the Artillery during WW1 and the Royal Air Force during WW2. He was born in Wolverhampton Staffordshire and educated at St Edmund's College Hertfordshire. Laurence Meynell (1899-1989) was an English writer, journalist and estate agent who also wrote as Valerie Baxter, Robert Eton, Geoffrey Ludlow and A Stephen Tring. Laurence Meynell, Die By The Book, The Crime Club, Collin, London, 1966, hardback with dustjacket, 256 pages. ![]()
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