Arthur Douglas Bruce Hamilton CMG (3 July 1900, Regent's Park, London – 24 March 1974, Brighton, Sussex) was an English novelist.
Bruce Hamilton's younger brother Patrick was a successful novelist and playwright.
Unlike many crime fiction writers, he preferred to try something different with each novel, rather than use a successful formula.
His 1946 novel Pro: An English Tragedy, which was not a crime novel, is particularly admired in cricket circles for its realistic and poignant portrayal of the life of a professional county cricketer in England either side of the First World War.
[1][3] A collection of his manuscripts and correspondence is held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.