Bruce Hamilton

Arthur Douglas Bruce Hamilton CMG (3 July 1900, Regent's Park, London – 24 March 1974, Brighton, Sussex) was an English novelist. Family Bruce Hamilton's younger brother Patrick was a successful novelist and playwright. Their father, Bernard Hamilton (1863–1930), a barrister, also wrote fiction. Writing A godson of Arthur Conan Doyle, Bruce Hamilton wrote six crime novels in the 1930s, then four more novels over the next 30 years. Unlike many crime fiction writers, he preferred to try something different with each novel, rather than use a successful formula. He also wrote a biography of his brother Patrick in 1972. His 1946 novel Pro: An English Tragedy, which was not a crime novel, is particularly admired in cricket circles for its realistic and poignant portrayal of the life of a professional county cricketer in England either side of the First World War.