They were together until his death fifty three years later. In 1932, Raymond married Sylvia Ray, who gave him a son. Also as a form of relaxation between novels, he put together highly complicated and sophisticated Meccano models. His interests included photography (he was up to professional standard), reading and listening to classical music, being a particularly enthusiastic opera lover. He left home at the age of 18 and became at different times a children's encyclopedia salesman, a salesman in a bookshop, and executive for a book wholesaler before turning to a writing career that produced more than 90 mystery books. His father intended his son to have a scientific career, was initially educated at King's School, Rochester, Kent. René Lodge Brabazon Raymond was born on 24th December 1906 in London, England, the son of Colonel Francis Raymond of the colonial Indian Army, a veterinary surgeon.
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