British Mystery and Thriller Writers Since 1960

by Macdonald, Gina

• ISBN13: 9780787660208
• ISBN10: 0787660205
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

Summary

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. For a listing of Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes sorted by genre click here.

Table of Contents

Plan of the Series	xv
Introduction	xvii
Marian Babson (1929- )	3	(7)
Mary Jean DeMarr
Gina Macdonald
Robert Barnard (1936- )	10	(16)
J. Randolph Cox
Gavin Black (Oswald Morris Wynd) (1913--1998)	26	(9)
Gina Macdonald
Lionel Black (Dudley Barker) (1910--1980)	35	(8)
Daryl Y. Holmes
Christianna Brand (1907--1988)	43	(9)
Nancy Ellen Talburt
Juana R. Young
Simon Brett (1945- )	52	(15)
T. R. Steiner
W. J. Burley (1914- )	67	(9)
Margaret Kinsman
Heron Carvic (1917?--1980)	76	(5)
Ellen Kocher Plaisance
Gina Macdonald
James Hadley Chase (Rene Raymond) (1906--1985)	81	(9)
Charles L. P. Silet
Douglas Clark (1919--1993)	90	(12)
B. J. Rahn
Brian Cleeve (1921- )	102	(7)
Gina Macdonald
Liza Cody (1944- )	109	(5)
Anna Wilson
Desmond Cory (Shaun Lloyd McCarthy) (1928- )	114	(5)
Marcia J. Songer
Lionel Davidson (1922- )	119	(7)
Michael J. Tolley
Peter Dickinson (1927- )	126	(12)
Daryl Y. Holmes
Gina Macdonald
Joan Fleming (1908--1980)	138	(7)
Gina Macdonald
Antonia Fraser (1932- )	145	(10)
Katherine Staples
Gina Macdonald
Celia Fremlin (1914- )	155	(5)
L. R. Wright
Jonathan Gash (John Grant) (1933- )	160	(15)
Gina Macdonald
William Haggard (Richard Clayton) (1907--1993)	175	(11)
Anita Tully
Marie D. Sheley
Adam Hall (Trevor Dudley-Smith) (1920--1995)	186	(13)
Gina Macdonald
Andrew F. Macdonald
Reginald Hill (1936- )	199	(9)
James Hurt
Michael Innes (J. I. M. Stewart) (1906--1994)	208	(9)
Charles L. P. Silet
P. D. James (1920- )	217	(12)
Andrew F. Macdonald
Alistair MacLean (1922--1987)	229	(14)
Chris Willis
James McClure (1939- )	243	(9)
Andrew F. Macdonald
Gina Macdonald
James Melville (Roy Peter Martin) (1931- )	252	(7)
Ellen Kocher Plaisance
Patricia Moyes (1923--2000)	259	(10)
Cynthia A. Bily
Anne Perry (1938- )	269	(15)
Marilyn Rye
Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) (1913--1995)	284	(12)
Gina Macdonald
Michele Theriot
Raymond W. Postgate (1896--1971)	296	(6)
William Reynolds
Anthony Price (1928- )	302	(13)
Gina Macdonald
Ruth Rendell (Barbara Vine) (1930- )	315	(18)
Patricia A. Gabilondo
Colin Watson (1920--1983)	333	(8)
Daryl Y. Holmes
Checklist of Further Readings	341	(6)
Contributors	347	(4)
Cumulative Index	351