X-Nico

unusual facts about crime writer



Armitage Trail

Armitage Trail (1902-1930) was an American crime writer best known for his 1929 novel Scarface, depicting the rise of gangster Al Capone, which was adapted into the 1932 film Scarface directed by Howard Hawks.

Havank

Havank also translated some 45 novels into Dutch, mainly of fellow crime writers like Leslie Charteris, Raymond Chandler and E. Phillips Oppenheim.

Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell (born 3 February 1948) is a Swedish crime writer, children's author and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most famous creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.

Sir William Lawrence, 3rd Baronet

His eldest daughter, Barbara, married Alfred Gordon Clark, a county court judge and crime writer as Cyril Hare, and his second daughter, Anne, was the mother of Rose Gray, of The River Cafe.

The Act of Roger Murgatroyd

There are many more references to prominent crime writers and their works, including, tongue-in-cheek, an anachronistic allusion to critic Edmund Wilson's 1945 essay, "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?".

Tupac: A Thug Life

Writings from contributors include interviews with Shakur's music producer Suge Knight, rapper Snoop Dogg, actor Tim Roth, and Tupac's mother Afeni Shakur, with a chapter by crime writer Cathy Scott.


see also

Acid Row

Acid Row is a 2001 novel by crime-writer Minette Walters.

Aitbaar

While Mark Halliday is a crime writer, Suresh Oberoi's character is a Ghazal singer.

Anne Holt

Val McDermid, a Scottish crime writer has once said that "Anne Holt is the latest crime writer to reveal how truly dark it gets in Scandinavia.

Aurelio Zen

Aurelio Zen is a fictional Italian detective created by the British crime writer Michael Dibdin.

Binyon

T. J. Binyon (1936-2004) was an English scholar and crime writer.

Chasing the Dime

Chasing the Dime is a novel by American crime-writer Michael Connelly.

Cheryl Keeton

A trial that followed her 1986 murder inspired true crime writer, Ann Rule, to write her 1995 best seller, Dead By Sunset.

Collins Crime Club

The real reason for the success of the club probably lies in the authors that it had on its list, topped by the best-selling crime writer of all time, Agatha Christie.

David Lohr

Previously, he was senior investigative crime writer for the former CourtTV’s Crime Library and Discovery Channel, where he headed the Criminal Report at Investigation Discovery and reported on true crime cases in the news.

Death of a Blue Movie Star

Death of a Blue Movie Star is a novel by crime writer Jeffery Deaver.

Edmund Pearson

He maintained an extensive personal correspondence with the Scottish crime writer, William Roughead, the two writers offering support and encouragement to each other in their chosen field of "matters criminous".

Kevin J. Mullen

Kevin J. Mullen (October 7, 1935 in San Francisco – April 18, 2011 Novato, California) was an American crime writer.

L'ispettore Coliandro

L'ispettore Coliandro is a series of Italian tongue-in-cheek television movies directed by Marco Manetti and Antonio Manetti (collectively Manetti Bros.), and written by the crime writer Carlo Lucarelli and starring Giampaolo Morelli in the title role of the Inspector Coliandro.

Lincoln Lawyer

The Lincoln Lawyer, 2005 novel by American crime writer Michael Connelly

Manhattan Is My Beat

Manhattan Is My Beat is a novel by crime writer Jeffery Deaver.

Paul Cleave

In September 2008, Cleave appeared on a crime writing panel at The Press Christchurch Writers Festival alongside fellow New Zealand crime writer Vanda Symon and acclaimed British author Mark Billingham.

Petra Hammesfahr

Petra Hammesfahr (born 10 May 1951 in Titz, North Rhine-Westphalia) is an acclaimed German crime writer, winner of several awards including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and Rhineland Literary Prize.

PM Press

The Outspoken Authors imprint of pocketbooks feature fiction writers with conversations on their work, politics, writing, and engagement—science fiction Terry Bisson, Michael Moorcock, Kim Stanley Robinson and Elanor Arnason were among the authors featured; crime writer Gary Phillips was the only non-SF author to have an Outspoken Authors title.

Prayers for the Assassin

Prayers for the Assassin is a political thriller, and a work of speculative fiction, written by American crime writer Robert Ferrigno.

The Fatal Equilibrium

Marshall Jevons is a fictitious crime writer invented and used by William L. Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga, professors of economics at Trinity University, San Antonio and the University of Virginia, respectively.

The Lincoln Lawyer

The Lincoln Lawyer is a 2005 novel, the sixteenth by American crime writer Michael Connelly.

William Roughead

In the early twenties, Roughead began a correspondence with American crime writer, Edmund Pearson, and a professional exchange of letters blossomed into a warm friendship for the next fifteen years.

Yomiuri Shimbun

Jake Adelstein, an American investigative journalist and crime-writer who, in 1993, became the first-ever non-Japanese staff writer at the Yomiuri Shimbun