Victor Cornwall, the pseudonym of author, Duncan Crowe, writes fiction with James Peak, producing 'Scoundrels'. The first volume was published by Black Door Press and distributed by Turnaround Ltd in June 2017, and is now on its fourth printing. The second volume, 'The Hunt For Hansclapp' was nominated for the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The third and final volume 'Her Majesty's Pleasure' was released in December 2021. Usually, a book with 'scoundrel' in the title is a breathless romantic fiction full of bodice-heaving, muscular chaps in tight jodphurs and trysts in the English countryside. Our books are not those books: our books are about manslaughter, blackmail, deadly casinos, Turkish bakers, unsavoury gymnasiums, horrible incidents in the Wimbledon changing rooms, Chinese sex-assassins, Stasi spies, showdowns with giant bulls, fights, fixes, chess games gone wrong, accidents involving rickety firearms, gambling, braggadocio, bluster, and generally sordid goings-on from which nobody emerges with any credit. Be warned, the Scoundrels stories are unapologetically filthy and eye-opening spy-thrillers, starring the disreputable Major Victor Cornwall and Major Arthur St. John Trevelyan, who are approaching their 100th birthdays and keen to relate the unwholesome stories of their youth. These stories centre around Scoundrels Club of Piccadilly, a Gentlemen's Club charged with fixing the sort of diplomatic and espionage crises that can't go through normal channels. The books have been championed by wonderful authors and artists like Terry Gilliam, Christopher Fowler and Bob Deis. They've been described many times by journalists, bloggers and real people we don't know as "the funniest thing I've ever read", "genius" (The Chap Magazine), "like Flashman on acid" (Men's Adventure Library) and even "immensely satisfying" (Daily Telegraph)