Irish writer Alister McAllister (1877-1943) wrote several plays under the pseudonym Anthony Wharton and later, after moving to England, wrote a series of mystery novels using the pseudonym Lynn Brock.During the First World War he served with the British Army in British Intelligence and in the Machine Gun Corps being wounded twice in France.After retiring from war he moved to London and later to Ferndown in Dorset. He continued writing and turned his hand to fiction, producing short stories, serious fiction and the series of Colonel Gore detective novels under the name Lynn Brock, which enjoyed popularity in the 1920s and 1930s during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.