{{Short description|English Writer (1908–1985)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} '''William Philip Atkey''' (1908–1985) better known under the pseudonym '''Barry Perowne''', was an English writer, best known for his crime fiction.<ref name="Times">{{cite news | title=Obituary: Barry Perowne | newspaper=The Times | date=23 January 1986 | page=18 }}</ref> Atkey also published books under his own name and under the pseudonym '''Pat Merriman'''.<ref name="Henderson1991">{{cite book|editor=Lesley Henderson|title=Twentieth-century crime and mystery writers|year=1991|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-031-5|author=Frank Occhiogrosso|contribution=Perowne, Barry|pages=[https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00einl/page/841 841–2]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00einl/page/841}}</ref>
==Life== Atkey, a nephew of the writer Bertram Atkey,<ref name="Times"/> was born on 25 June 1908 in Downton in the New Forest area of Wiltshire, England. He was educated at St John's College, Portsmouth.<ref>''Cradled In History: the History of St John's College'' by Michael Magan, 1974.</ref> By agreement with the E W Hornung Estate, he continued the A. J. Raffles series after its creator E. W. Hornung's death.<ref name="Henderson1991"/> He was invited to do so in 1932, and after World War II regularly published in ''Ellery Queen's Magazine'', ''The Saint Magazine'' and ''John Bull''.<ref name="Times"/>
Atkey also wrote other stories with his own characters.<ref name="Henderson1991"/>
An amateur cricketer, Atkey played for the Somerset Stragglers. He died in Marbella on 24 December 1985.<ref name="Times"/>
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==External links== {{wikiquote}} * [http://www.xs4all.nl/~embden11/Engels/perowne.htm List of books] * {{IMDb name|0674468}}
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