Graham Montague Jeffries

Graham Montague Jeffries, better known by his pseudonym Bruce Graeme, (23 May 1900 – 14 May 1982) was a British mystery writer with a prolific output of more than 100 novels. Graeme's son, the writer Roderic Jeffries (known under the pseudonym Roderic Graeme), continued writing novels using one of Bruce Graeme's most beloved characters, the anti-hero crime solving thief Blackshirt, which originally featured in a series of Blackshirt novels written by the elder Jeffries from 1923 through 1940.

Life and career Graham Montague Jeffries was born into an affluent family in London, England on 23 May 1900.

In 1953 Jeffries was a founding member of the Crime Writers' Association. He died on 14 May 1982 at age of 81.