Charles KingstonMurder in Piccadilly
'Scores of men and women died daily in London, but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart. Death had become something very real.
Charles Kingston is the pen name of Charles Kingston O'Mahoney.Little is known of the man but he began his writing career with 'The Viceroys of Ireland', which was published under his own name Charles O.Mahoney in 1912.He turned to crime fiction in 1921 when he wrote 'Stolen Virtue' and thereafter he wrote 25 twenty crime novels, 17 of them in the golden age of British crime fiction between the two world wars and eight in the 1940s. His final novel was 'Fear Followed On', published posthumously in 1945.
