Robert George Dean

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

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

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