Sir Max Pemberton JP (19 June 1863 – 22 February 1950) was a popular English novelist and publisher working mainly in the adventure and mystery genres.

This I have nowdone, adding something of my own to the brief notes he left me, but chieflybringing to the task an enduring gratitude for a friendship which nothing canreplace.The Wheels of Anarchy is an adventure tale about anarchists and assassins, which is set across Continental Europe.

The novel's hero, Bruce Driscoll, is a recent graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge and he appears to be modelled upon Robinson.

In December 2010, Wheels of Anarchy by Max Pemberton was compiled, introduced and republished in facsimile form by Paul Spiring and Hugh Cooke.

[9] During the autumn of 1914, Pemberton published a Father Brown story titled The Donnington Affair by G. K. Chesterton in an obscure British periodical named The Premier.