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Kenneth Giles (died 1974) was a British crime writer. Giles wrote books under his own name, as well as the pseudonyms Charles Drummond and Edmund McGirr.
Giles started as a sporting journalist, and used what he learned there as background for the Drummond novels.
The Drummond books star Sgt. Reed, while the McGirr books star a private eye.
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