Wells regarded The Vengeance of Larose (1939) as Gask's "best piece of story-telling.It kept me up till half-past one." Bertrand Russell, also an admiring reader, called to see Gask at Gask's home in Walkerville, an Adelaide suburb, when he was in Adelaide in August 1950.moreĪrthur Cecil Gask was born at St Marylebone, Middlesex (now London), and trained in dentistry, a profession he continued for the next forty years. Wells, an admirer of Gask's work, corresponded with Gask. Gask's work was translated into several European languages, serialised in newspapers and broadcast on radio. Most of his novels described the activities of a detective, Gilbert Larose, in solving crimes. Over a period of forty years Gask wrote over thirty books as well as contributing short stories to The Mail in Adelaide. He began writing crime fiction while waiting for his patients and in 1921 paid for the publication of his first novel, The Secret of the Sandhills, which was an immediate success. Most of his novels de Arthur Cecil Gask (1869-1951), dentist and novelist. Arthur Cecil Gask (1869-1951), dentist and novelist.