Cecil John Charles Street OBE MC was born on the 3rd May 1884 in Gibraltar.His career in the military began in 1903 as an artillery officer before moving into propaganda during the Great War. By the outbreak of the Irish War of Independence he was an officer working between Dublin and London.His writing career began during the Great War and by the mid-1920’s he was writing under both his own name and that of several pseudonyms including John Rhode, Miles Burton and Cecil Waye. Although his main output was detective fiction novels, he covered many other genres including short stories, non-fiction, radio plays, a stage play and a host of essays and articles.