Six years after the death of his older brother David, this man left his village, and he would pen the mystery novel Better Dead after moving to London penniless. Works like The Little Minister and Auld Licht Idylls composed his Thrums novels, but he 
Six years after the death of his older brother David, this man left his village, and he would pen the mystery novel Better Dead after moving to London penniless. Works like The Little Minister and Auld Licht Idylls composed his Thrums novels, but he produced plays such as one detailing the attempt of Susan and Phoebe Throssel to start a school, as well as another describing Lord Loam's butler saving the British peer's family when stranded on a tropical island. Those works, Quality Street and The Admirable Crichton, were later followed by the fantasy plays Dear Brutus and What Every Woman Knows, although he would introduce his most famous character in The Little White Bird before committing suicide by leaping in front of a train in the London Underground. FTP, identify this Scottish novelist who used his friends, the Llewelyn Davies boys, as inspirations for his most famous character, Peter Pan.
Six years after the death of his older brother David, this man left his village, and he would pen the mystery novel Better Dead after moving to London penniless.
James Matthew {Barrie} (2) [DJ]