Victor (George de Freyne) Bridges (1878-1972) was a prolific British author. His works include: Camping Out: For Boy Scouts and Others (1912), The Man From Nowhere (1913), Jetsam (1914), A Rogue by Compulsion: An Affair of the Secret Service (1915), Mr. Lyndon at Liberty (1915), Another Man's Shoes (1916), The Lady From Long Acre (1918), The Cruise of the 'Scandal', and Other Stories (1920), Greensea Island: A Mystery of the Essex Coast (1922), Another Pair of Spectacles (1923), The Red Lodge: A Mystery of Campden Hill (1924), A Handful of Verses (1924), The Girl in Black (1927), The Green Monkey (1929), The Secret of the Creek (1930), Edward Fitzgerald and Other Verses (1932), Three Blind Mice: An Adventure in the Essex Marshes (1933), I Did Not Kill Osborne: An Adventure in the Essex Marshes (1934), Peter in Peril (1935), Blue Silver (1936), It Happened in Essex (1938), The Seven Stars (1939), Dusky Night (1940), The House on the Saltings (1941), The Man Who Butted In (1942), It Never Rains - (1944), Accidents Will Happen (1948), The Man From Nowhere (1952), The Man Who Vanished (1954), What The Doctor Ordered (1956) and The Girl From Belfast (1961).