AJR
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Australian writer
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Male
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Birth:
23 September 1872(Melbourne)
Death:
22 November 1942(Worthing)
The details
Biography
Arthur John Rees (1872–1942), was an Australian mystery writer.
Born in Melbourne, he was for a short time on the staff of the Melbourne Age and later joined the staff of the New Zealand Herald.
In his early twenties he likely went to England.
His proficiency as a writer of crime-mystery stories is attested by Dorothy Sayers in the introduction to Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, 1928. Two of his stories were included in an American world-anthology of detective stories. Some of his works were translated into French and German.