Douglas Whiteway
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Douglas Alfred Whiteway is a journalist and author who lives in Winnipeg, Canada. He has a BA in Religious Studies from the University of Manitoba, and a degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa. He has worked for the Winnipeg Tribune and the Winnipeg Free Press.
Under the pen-name "C. C. Benison," he is the author of a series of murder mysteries set on the estates of Queen Elizabeth II where the crimes are solved by housemaid Jane Bee, with the Queen's help. Titles include Death at Buckingham Palace, Death at Sandringham House, and Death at Windsor Castle. He is also the author of Death in Cold Type, a murder mystery set in Winnipeg.
Death at Buckingham Palace has been translated into several languages: into Japanese as "Bakkingamu Kyūden no satsujin " in 1998,[1] into German as "Mord im Buckingham-Palast" in 1997,[2] into Spanish in 1999 as "Muerte en el Palacio de Buckingham".[3] Death at Sandringham House" has been translated into German as "Mord auf Schloss Sandringham : ein königlicher Kriminalroman",[4] and "Death at Windsor Castle" into Japanese as "Uinzājō no himitsu" [5]
With Barbara Huck he co-authored In Search of Ancient Alberta (Winnipeg: Heartland Publications, 1998).
He was associate editor of The Beaver, a Canadian history magazine, from 1998 to 2006. He later became editor of The Beaver. He was Writer in Residence for the Winnipeg Public Library in 2007/08.
In autumn 2011 Benison will publish the first novel of a trilogy, "Twelve Drummers Drumming."[6] The mystery series follows Father Tom Christmas, a priest in an English village, who often stumbles upon murder.