Editing Douglas Whiteway

{{short description|Canadian journalist and author (born 1961)}}
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'''Douglas Alfred Whiteway''' (born 1961) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] journalist and author who lives in [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]].  He has a BA in Religious Studies from the University of Manitoba, and a degree in journalism from [[Carleton University]] in [[Ottawa]]. He has worked for the ''[[Winnipeg Tribune]]'' and the ''[[Winnipeg Free Press]]''.

Under the [[pseudonym|pen-name]] "C. C. Benison," he is the author of a series of murder mysteries set on the estates of [[Queen Elizabeth II]] where the crimes are solved by housemaid Jane Bee, with the Queen's help. Titles include ''Death at [[Buckingham Palace]],'' ''Death at [[Sandringham House]],'' and ''Death at [[Windsor Castle]]''. He is also the author of ''Death in Cold Type'', a murder mystery set in Winnipeg.

''Death at Buckingham Palace'' has been translated into several languages: into Japanese as ''Bakkingamu Kyūden no satsujin'' in 1998,<ref>{{cite book 
 | title = Bakkingamu Kyūden no satsujin | year = 1998
 | isbn = 978-4-15-100124-6
| last1 = ベニスン
 | first1 = C. C.
 }} Translated by Yūko Miyawaki.</ref> into German as ''Mord im Buckingham-Palast'' in 1997,<ref>{{cite book
 | title = Mord im Buckingham-Palast Kriminalroman | year = 1997
 | isbn = 978-3-612-27329-1 | publisher = Econ-Taschenbuch-Verl
}} Translated by Peter Beyer.</ref> into  Spanish in 1999 as ''Muerte en el Palacio de Buckingham''.<ref>{{cite book
 | title = Muerte en el Palacio de Buckingham
 | isbn =  978-84-01-46761-5 | year = 1999
 | location = Barcelona, Spain | publisher = Plaza & Janés Editores
}}</ref> ''Death at Sandringham House'' has been translated into German as ''Mord auf Schloss Sandringham: ein königlicher Kriminalroman'',<ref>{{cite book 
 | title = Mord auf Schloß Sandringham ein königlicher Kriminalroman
 | isbn = 978-3-612-27515-8 | year = 1998  | publisher = Econ & List Taschenbuch Verlag
}}</ref> and ''Death at Windsor Castle'' into Japanese as ''Uinzājō no himitsu''.<ref>{{cite book 
 | title = Uinzājō no himitsu
 | isbn = 978-4-15-100154-3 | year = 2000  | location = Tokyo | publisher = The Mysterious Press
}}</ref>

With Barbara Huck he co-authored ''In Search of Ancient Alberta'' (Winnipeg: Heartland Publications, 1998).

He was associate editor of ''The Beaver'', a Canadian history magazine, from 1998 to 2006. He later became editor of ''The Beaver''.  He was Writer in Residence for the Winnipeg Public Library in 2007/08.

In autumn 2011, Benison published ''Twelve Drummers Drumming'', the first of a series of crime novels inspired by the Christmas carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas.<ref>{{cite book
 | url = http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307943798
 | title = Twelve Drummers Drumming | publisher = Doubleday Canada | date = 2012-10-25 
 | author =  C.C. Benison | isbn = 978-0-385-67013-5 
}}</ref>  The mystery series follows Father Tom Christmas, a priest in an English village, who often stumbles upon murder. The second, ''Eleven Pipers Piping,'' was published in October 2012. The third, ''Ten Lords A'Leaping'', was published in December 2013.<ref>{{cite web
 | url = http://www.ccbenison.com/
 | title = C.C. Benison: Home
}}</ref>
In October 2018, he published "[[Paul is Dead]]: A Novel''", ''a psychological thriller. In autumn 2020, a non-canonical'' [[Father Christmas]] ''mystery, a novella'', The Unpleasantness at the Battle of Thornford ''was published''.''
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