Julian Symons

A Man Called Jones (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The office party was in full swing so no one heard the shot - fired at close range through the back of Lionel Hargreaves, elder son of the founder of Hargreaves Advertising Agency. The killer left only one clue - a pair of yellow gloves - but it looked almost as if he had wanted them to be found. As Inspector Bland sets out to solve the murder, he encounters a deadly trail of deception, suspense - and two more dead bodies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: House of Stratus
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755128952
• Artikelnr.: 39141419

Autorenporträt

Julian Symons is primarily remembered as a master of the art of crime writing. However, in his eighty-two years he produced an enormously varied body of work. Social and military history, biography and criticism were all subjects he touched upon with remarkable success, and he held a distinguished reputation in each field. His novels were consistently highly individual and expertly crafted, raising him above other crime writers of his day. It is for this that he was awarded various prizes, and, in 1982, named as Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America - an honour accorded to only three other English writers before him: Graham Greene, Eric Ambler and Daphne Du Maurier. He succeeded Agatha Christie as the president of Britain's Detection Club, a position he held from 1976 to 1985, and in 1990 he was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers for his lifetime's achievement in crime fiction. Symons died in 1994.