Charles Shaw

Charles Herbert Shaw (10 August 1900 – 1 August 1955) was an Australian journalist and novelist.

Life and career Shaw was born in South Melbourne, Victoria.

He had two collections of outback short stories, Outback Occupations (1943) and A Sheaf of Shorts (1944), and one volume of verse The Warrumbungle Mare (1943) published as well as two detective stories The Green Token (1943) and Treasure of the Hills (1944). It was adapted for the screen as a 1957 film with the screenplay written by John Huston and John Lee Mahin, with Huston directing. The film starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium in at the 30th Academy Awards in 1958, with Kerr also nominated for Best Actress.

After the success of Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, Shaw's publishers asked him to begin using a pen name as they thought readers of Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison may be disillusioned if they discovered Shaw had turned to fictional violence in a series of four detective 'Delaney' novels featuring the character Dennis Delaney. You're Wrong, Delaney (1953)