Obituaries - July 26, 1995

* Elleston Trevor; Author of More Than 100 Novels

Elleston Trevor, 75, author of more than 100 novels including “Flight of the Phoenix,” which became a 1966 movie starring Jimmy Stewart. Trevor, born Trevor Dudley-Smith in England, was perhaps better known under the pseudonym Adam Hall, under which he wrote a series of mystery novels about a British spy named Quiller. Trevor began the series with “The Quiller Memorandum” which won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1965, and had completed the 18th installment shortly before he died. Ten of his novels were translated into film, including “Phoenix” and “The Big Pick-Up,” which became the British-made “Dunkirk” about evacuation of Allied troops. Trevor, who served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, wrote his first novel, “Squadron Airborne,” when he was 20. Using several pseudonyms, he wrote war novels, medieval romances, horror tales, maritime stories and spy books as well as several plays, screenplays and short stories. Trevor lived for a time in France and moved to the U.S. in the mid-1970s. On Friday in Cave Creek, Ariz., of cancer.