Author: John Bude
Alternate names: Ernest Carpenter Elmore; Ernest C. Elmore; Ernest Elmore
Born: 1901
Died: 1957
Bio: John Bude was the pseudonym of  <a href=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2450367A/Ernest_Elmore/>Ernest Carpenter Elmore</a> (1901-1957), an author of the golden age of crime fiction. Elmore was a co-founder of the Crime Writers' Association, and worked in the theatre as a producer and director. Other John Bude crime titles available as British Library Crime Classics include *The Cheltenham Square Murder* and *Death on the Riviera*.