Clifton Robbins (22 October 1890 – 9 December 1964) was an English journalist, writer of golden age detective fiction in the 1930s, and executive of the International Labour Organization.
He worked for the International Labour Organization from 1920, ultimately becoming director of the ILO London office in 1945 before retiring in 1950 to become principal of the Y.M.C.A.
[13] He joined the International Labour Organization (ILO) (founded by the League of Nations) as Assistant Director in 1920 for whom he spent several years in Geneva.
[20][21] In that first novel, an apparent suicide in suburban London leads Harrison to a drugs cartel and ultimately to the League of Nations in Geneva.
[24] Robbins also wrote two novels featuring Captain George Champion Staveley, an amateur detective who is unable to leave his room due to war injuries but manages to solve cases with the help of his wife and friends in his village.
In the first Staveley novel, Six Sign-Post Murder, the death of a play-girl leads to a sinister crime lord and a drug-smuggling rugby player.
[25] Among Robbins' other works is The Devil's beacon, a novel about a Mr. Vasco, who is an anti-smoking campaigner and forms the League Against Tobacco which enjoys success due to the support of the owner of the fiction newspaper the Daily Flight before fizzling out.
The start of the Second World War marked the end of Robbins' literary career and his last novel was the Stavely story Death Forms Threes, published in early 1940 and probably written in 1939.