[2] Black was appointed assistant editor of The Phoenix 1897–99 before taking up a similar position with The Morning Herald in London.
With Thomas Meech he wrote a series of novels beginning with The Eagle (1906) under the pen name Paul Urquhart.
Novels: Short stories: The Great Bank Safe Mystery, The Blackmailers, The Country House Tragedy.
His wife Margaret was a suffragette, left-wing political journalist and writer, often writing under the pen name of Philippa Gray.
According to her son Stephen Black, his father was very proud of his mother's popular literary success, getting very excited when he saw posters advertising her latest novel on the side of buses.