Patreon Post: There’s Death in the Churchyard (1934) by William Gore

William Gore was the penname for Cora Josephine Gordon (1882-1944) and Godfrey Jervis Gordon (1879-1950), a husband and wife writing duo. They wrote two other mysteries, Death in the Wheelbarrow (1935) and Murder Most Artistic (1937) a.k.a. The Painted Nude. Godfrey was better known as “Jan” and both individuals were artists. The website Art UK has this information to share: ‘Married in 1909, both were painters in Paris before the First World War. At the outbreak of the war both volunteered to travel to Serbia with the organisation of aid for the country. In 1917 Jan was appointed a Lieutenant in the RNVR in order to work with Norman Wilkinson on Dazzle camouflage for navy vessels. Following this he was commissioned as an official war artist for the Navy medical section and produced series of paintings on the treatment of the wounded on hospital ships and then of work at the Royal Navy Hospital Haslar in Gosport, Hampshire.’ The Jan and Cora Gordon Pages has further information about…