Robert George Dean

American novelist

Robert George Dean (died 1989) was an American author of detective fiction. He also worked as a journalist, and as an ambulance driver during World War II.

Robert George Dean

Died| 1989
Occupation| Author
Nationality| American
Period| 1938–1954
Genre| Detective fiction

The last few books Dean wrote, under the pseudonym George Griswold, are spy novels that still have a certain fan following. A character known as Mr. Groode, a shadowy British spymaster, figures in all four novels, but his prominence in the plot varies widely from book to book.

## Works

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Tony Hunter series

* Murder Makes a Merry Widow (1938)
* A Murder of Convenience (1938)
* Murder Through the Looking Glass (1940)
* A Murder by Marriage (1940)
* Murder in Mink (1941)
* Layoff (1942)
* On Ice (1942)
* The Body Was Quite Cold (Dutton, 1951)
* The Case of Joshua Locke (Dutton, 1951)
* Affair at Lover's Leap (aka Death at Lover's Leap) (Doubleday’s Crime Club, 1953)

other

* Murder Most Opportune
* Murder on Margin
* Three Lights Went Out
* What Gentleman Strangles a Lady
* The Sutton Place Murders

He also wrote four books under the pseudonym George Griswold:

* A Checkmate for the Colonel (1952)
* A Gambit for Mr. Groode (1953)
* Red Pawns (1954)
* The Pinned Man (1954)

## Sources

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* http://www.thrillingdetective.com/hunter2.html
* On Ice (Superior Reprint, 1945)

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