Hugh Clevely, who wrote also under the pseudonym of Tod Claymore, was born in Bristol in 1898. He was educated by his uncle, a vicar, and spent his early life in the vicarage. He obtained a pilot's license before the last war, was active in the RAF and finished the war as wing-commander. He died in 1964.

Clevely was one of the dozens of authors who wrote for the story paper The Thriller in the 1930s, a paper that made famous The Saint by Charteris, Leslie, The Toff and The Baron by Creasey, John and the Norman Conquest novels of Gray, Berkeley. But in addition to many authors nearly unknown today The Thriller published stories by Wallace, Edgar, Christie, Agatha, Allingham, Margery and other names still famous. Clevely wrote more than thirty titles for this influential paper and in addition several novels with serial characters, among them John Martinson “the Gang-Smasher" and Inspector Williams of Scotland Yard. As Tod Claymore, he wrote another nine mysteries, all with a series character named Tod Claymore. After the war Clevely contributed about a dozen titles to the hugely popular Sexton Blake series.

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