Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics Book 77) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: stadiums, tennis, golf, archery, detective, boxing, swimming, cricket
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Published: 2020-03-10T05:00:00+00:00

‌The Boat Race Murder

‌David Winser

David Michael de Reuda Winser was born in Plymouth in 1915. His mother died in childbirth, while his father, a submarine commander, was at sea, so he was raised by his grandparents. He was educated at Winchester College, where he showed skill as a marksman as well as becoming a capable oarsman. He earned a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and rowed in the Blue boat in 1935 and the following two years. Quite apart from his sporting prowess, he was a fine poet, and in 1936 his poem “Rain” won the prestigious Newdigate Prize; an earlier winner had been Oscar Wilde, while many years later the prize would go to P. M. Hubbard, who was to become a notable writer of crime and thriller fiction.

Winser studied medicine at Yale University before returning to England to become a doctor. He published five novels, as well as this short story, which benefits from his first-hand experience of rowing in the Boat Race, and was included in Ellery Queen’s anthology Sporting Blood in 1942. During the war he served as a medical officer, and was awarded the Military Cross. In the Battle of Walcheren in the Netherlands in 1944, he was killed by a mortar bomb while tending to a wounded colleague. He was only twenty-nine years old.

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