Kenneth Giles

For the American baseball pitcher, see Ken Giles.

Kenneth Giles (died 1974) was a British crime writer. Giles wrote books under his own name, as well as the pseudonyms Charles Drummond and Edmund McGirr.

Giles started as a sporting journalist, and used what he learned there as background for the Drummond novels. The Drummond books star Sgt. Reed, while the McGirr books star a private detective.

In a New York Times review of Death among the Stars, the crime fiction critic Allen J. Hubin writes "It will be a long while before I have had enough of Mr. Giles."

Incomplete bibliography

• Some Beasts No More (1965)
• The Big Greed (1966)
• A Provenance of Death (1966)
• The Funeral Was in Spain (1966) (as Edmund McGirr)
• Death at the Furlong Post (1967) (as Charles Drummond)
• Death in Diamonds (1967)
• The Lead-Lined Coffin (1968) (as Edmund McGirr)
• The Odds on Death (1969) (as Charles Drummond)
• Death and Mr. Prettyman (1967)
• Here Lies My Wife (1967) (as Edmund McGirr)
• A Hearse with Horses (1967) (as Edmund McGirr)
• Death among the Stars (1968)
• Death Cracks a Bottle (1969)
• Death and the Leaping Ladies (1969) (as Charles Drummond)
• An Entry of Death (1969) (as Edmund McGirr)
• A Death in the Church (1970)
• Stab in the Back (1970) (as Charles Drummond)
• Murder Pluperfect (1970)
• No Better Fiend (1971) (as Edmund McGirr)
• A Death at the Bar (1972) (as Charles Drummond)
• The Lead-Lined Coffin (?) (as Edmund McGirr)
• An Entry of Death (?) (as Edmund McGirr)
• Death Pays the Wages (as Edmund McGirr)
• A File on Death (1973)
• Bardel's Murder (1973) (as Edmund McGirr)
• A Murderous Journey (1974) (as Edmund McGirr)