Robert Erskine Childers' works included the influential novel "The Riddle of the Sands". The Scottish writer of Titus Alone did not write it.
 He is best known for what are usually referred to as the "Gormenghast" books. 
Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870  24 November 1922), universally known as Erskine Childers, was a British writer, whose works included the influential novel "The Riddle of the Sands", and a Fenian revolutionary who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht "Asgard". 
Titus Alone is a novel written by Mervyn Peake and first published in 1959. 
