George Dilnot (14 November 1883[1]-23 February 1951[2]) was an English writer and novelist, specialising in crime novels and non-fiction criminology.
[3] Born in North Hayling and moving with his family to East Battersea by 1901, he at first became a police officer then a journalist.
His first two novels, The Crime Club (1915) and The Rogues’ Syndicate (1916), were both in collaboration with Frank Froest, a retired Metropolitan Police detective.
[3] He then published solely under his own name nearly twenty titles with recurring characters - Inspector Strickland, Val Emery, Horace Augustus Elver, and Jim Strang.
At the insistence of several British popular writers, he edited some adventures in the Sexton Blake series.