Hugh Clevely

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, after the war Clevely contributed about a dozen titles to the hugely popular Sexton Blake series.