C. H. B. Kitchin

**Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin** was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, in 1895. He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, from where he won a classical scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford. From 1916-1918 he served in the British Army in France, and after the war turned to the law, joining Lincoln's Inn and being called to the bar in 1924. Later, like the hero of his crime novels, Malcolm Warren, he became a stockbroker, but a huge inherited fortune allowed him to …