![]() He died at home at Smoogro House, Orphir, Orkney. His final novel was the 1941 thriller Beastmark the Spy. His First Offence was also filmed in France as Drôle de drame (directed by Marcel Carné, 1937). ![]() His The Spy in Black was made into a successful film in the late 1930s. He was also a historian, author of a great history of Orkney, a founder member and second president of the Orkney Antiquarian Society, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Soon after embarking on a career as a writer, he published one of his most popular novels, The Lunatic at Large. Īfter being educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and Magdalen College, Oxford, he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in London in 1895, but never practised as a lawyer. ![]() 1090), Chief Counsellor to Haakon, Earl of Orkney, and later became landed gentry taking their name from their estate, Clouston. The Cloustons descend from Havard Gunnason (fl. ![]() Clouston, the son of psychiatrist Sir Thomas Clouston, was from an "old Orkney family", according to his obituary in The Scotsman. Joseph Storer Clouston OBE (, Cumberland, England – 23 June 1944, Orkney, Scotland) was a Scottish author and historian. ![]()
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