author
Wyndham Martyn
b. 1875
A prolific English-born writer who built a career in the United States, he is best remembered for fast-moving crime, adventure, and mystery fiction, especially the Anthony Trent stories. He also worked across magazines, novels, and screenwriting, writing under several names along the way.
3 Audiobooks
Anthony Trent, Master Criminal
by Wyndham Martyn
Under Cover
by Wyndham Martyn, Roi Cooper Megrue
About the author
Writing as Wyndham Martyn, William Henry Martin Hosken was an English-born author who later made his career in the United States. Reliable reference sources identify him as a prolific writer of popular fiction, and also note that he used several other names, including W. H. G. Wyndham, William Grenvil, and Croydon Heath.
He is best known today for the Anthony Trent books, centered on a suave master criminal, but his work ranged more widely into adventure, mystery, thrillers, and some speculative fiction. His stories appeared in American magazines as well as in books, and some of his work was adapted for film, showing how comfortably he moved between pulp entertainment and mainstream popular storytelling.
Sources consulted during this search do not agree on every biographical detail: some list his birth year as 1874, while older catalog records use 1875. Because of that conflict, it is safest to say that he was born in the mid-1870s and died in 1963.