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.

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)