Author of the Poldark saga, a series of historical novels about an
18th-century Cornwall family, seven of which were dramatized for the
BBC in the 1970s and also shown on
Masterpiece (1971). His suspense novel "The
Little Walls" was named by the Crime Writers' Association of Great
Britain as the best English mystery of 1955. His thrillers usually
feature young women as narrator-protagonists.