Showell Styles

Showell Styles

Frank Showell Styles (14 March 1908 - 19 February 2005) was a Welsh writer and mountaineer.

Known to his friends as 'Pip', Showell Styles' childhood was spent in the hills of North Wales where he became an avid mountaineer and explorer. During the Second World War, Styles joined the Royal Navy and was posted in the Mediterranean, but even there he walked and climbed as much as he could.

An aspiring writer, Styles already had articles published in "Punch", before setting out to make his living as an author. His first novel, "Traitor’s Mountain", was a murder mystery set on and around Tryfan in Wales. He became a prolific writer with over 160 books published for children as well as adults. In addition to books on mountains such as "The Mountaineer’s Weekend Book", he wrote detective fiction under the pseudonym of Glyn Carr, and humorous pieces as C.L. Inker.

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* [http://bubl.ac.uk/org/tacit/tac/tac65/tac65franksho.htm Obituary]


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