Strychinne for Dogs: Gask was an English dentist that emigrated to Australia, he would write crime fiction whilst waiting for patients, here is an excellent example of his work

Arthur Cecil Gask was born on 10th July 1869 in Marylebone, London.

He began his career as an author late in life. It was only in 1920 when he and his second wife and family emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia to set up a dental practice that writing took its hold.

Gask paid for the publication of his first work, `The Secret of the Sandhills', which was an immediate success, both commercially and critically.

Over the next 3 decades Gask wrote over thirty books, usually featuring his detect...