John William Bobin (Also Wrote as Adelie Ascott, John Ascott, Katherine Greenalgh, Gertrude Nelson, Victor Nelson, and Isabelle Norton, 1889–1935), 1915: First Contribution to the Sexton Blake Library

Abstract

John William Bobin is known primarily for his mystery and detective output in early twentieth-century juvenile story papers. His first detective title was for the Sexton Blake Library in 1915, a series to which he contributed regularly until 1931. He was the primary writer of the Derrick Brent detective series (1916–17) and the pseudo-detective and mystery series, Don Darrel/‘Bulldog’ Holdfast (1922–26), published in the Boys’ Friend under the pseudonym ‘Victor Nelson’. He also produced a serial for the Nelson Lee Library in 1933, writing as ‘John Ascott’.