John Bude

John Bude was the pseudonym of Ernest Elmore (1901 - 1957), an author of
the golden age of crime fiction. Elmore was a co-founder of the Crime
Writers' Association, and worked in the theatre as a producer and director.
His first two books, THE CORNISH COAST MURDER and THE LAKE DISTRICT MURDER,
were republished as British Library Crime Classics to great acclaim in
2014.