Douglas Rutherford


James Douglas Rutherford McConnell who used the pen-name Douglas Rutherford was a language teacher and an author.

Biography

Born in Kilkenny, Ireland. He went to school in Yorkshire, studied at Clare College, Cambridge graduating in 1937, and received his MA from the University of Reading. During the Second World War, he served in the British Army Intelligence Corps in North Africa and Italy. After demobilisation, he became a modern languages teacher at Eton College from 1946 until his retirement in 1973.
Writing on weekends and holidays, he published his first novel, Comes the Blind Fury, in 1950. Many of his works centered on race-tracks or sports cars. With Francis Durbridge, he co-authored two novels in the Paul Temple series: The Tyler Mystery in 1957 and East of Algiers in 1959. Under the name James McConnell, he published books on learning foreign languages and on Eton.
He joined the Detection Club in 1970.
He married, in 1939, Margaret Worsley 'Peggy' Gandy - daughter of Surg.-Cdr. Eric Worsley Gandy OBE; and secondly in 1953, Laura Margaret Goodwin.
He died on in Monxton, Hampshire.

Works

Novels

Series: ''Paddy Regan''

Written as James McConnell or J. D. R. McConnell