Adam Hall

Adam Hall was a pseudonym used by Trevor Dudley-Smith who was in Kent, United Kingdom, in February 17, 1920. He attended Yardley Court Preparatory school and Seven Oaks School. During the Second World War, he served as a flight engineer in the Royal Air Force. After the war he began a full time writer. Author Trevor lived Spain and France. Later he moved to United States, and settled in Phoenix, Arizona. He used the pseudonym Elleston Trevor in 1946, for a non mystery book and later adopted it as his legal name. Author Trevor Dudley-Smith also wrote under the pseudonyms of Adam Hall, Trevor Burgess, Simon Rattray, Roger Fitzalan, Mansell Black, Howard North, Ceaser Smith, Lesley Stone and Warwick Scott. His best know works are the series about the British agent Quiller written as Adam Hall and The Flight of the Phoenix written as Elleston Trevor. He also wrote mysteries, plays, thrillers, juvenile novels, and short stories. In 1965, Author Elleston Trevor received the Edgar Allan Poe Award by Mystery Writers of America and the French Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere for The Quiller Memorandum. In 1967, this book was made into a movie, starring Alec Guinness and George Segal. Other novels of this Author that made it to the screen include the Quiller series, the TV movie The Penthouse and the Flight of the Phoenix filmed in 1965. Under the pen name Adam Hall, Author Elleston Trevor wrote 18 popular novels chronicling the adventures of the British spy, Quiller. He died of cancer on July 21, 1995.