Max Rittenberg (Rittenberg, Max, 1880–1965) was a British writer known for detective fiction and popular literature. Publicly available information about his life and career is quite limited, making it difficult to reconstruct his education or the full course of his writing. What is known suggests that his works were aimed at a general readership, with a focus on mystery and deduction, emphasizing plot momentum and readability; he was thus one of the authors active in British popular fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. His representative work is Swirling Waters, which reflects his approach to detective fiction and popular storytelling. Since only one of his works is currently held in the collection, understanding of his overall output remains limited.
