Charles KingstonRoyal romances and tragedies
This novel is a historical piece written by Charles Cameron Kingston, who was an Australian politician, Premier of South Australia and a member of the first Federal Parliament.
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.
