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, and his sister was the actress and playwright Diana Hamilton. 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.

A collection of his manuscripts and correspondence is held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Life Hamilton moved to Barbados in 1938 to take up a teaching post. Soon afterwards, he began writing on international matters for The Barbados Advocate.

In December 1933 he married Marie Aileen Lorna Laurie (1907–1987), who was born in Barbados.