H. G. Jenkins's

H. G. Jenkins's writing career was defined by light fiction and humour. His first book was a biography of George Borrow, but he is best known for creating the Cockney character Joseph Bindle in 1916 and his subsequent series, which were praised as the greatest Cockney literary creation since Dickens . He also wrote a series of detective short stories featuring Malcolm Sage, collected in 1921, whose style has been compared to Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot . Many of his works were first published in pulp magazines, and several were adapted into short films