title: Peter Cooper (author)
text: # Peter Cooper (author)
  
  Peter Cooper Wing Commander, RAF, (1929–2007), is an English author who wrote witty detective stories and light verse under the name "Colin Curzon". His "Not tonight Josephine" was anthologized by J. M. Cohen.
  
  ## Publications
  
  The Case of the Eighteenth Ostrich (1940)
  
  Flying Wild (1941)
  
  The Body in the Barrage Balloon (1942)
  
  