Julian Symons

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John Wilkins was a gentle, mild-mannered man who lived a simple, predictable life. So when he met a beautiful, irresistible girl his world was turned upside down. Looking at his wife, and thinking of the girl, everything turned red before his eyes - the colour of murder. Later, his mind a blank, his only defence was that he loved his wife far too much to hurt her... 'A book to delight every puzzle-suspense enthusiast' - The New York Times

The Colour of Murder

Lady Wainwright presides over the gothic gloom at Belting, in mourning for her two sons lost in the Second World War. A stranger arrives, claiming to be son David who was not killed after all. With Lady Wainwright's health fading and her inheritance at stake, the family is torn apart by doubts over its mysterious long-lost son. Then the first body is found.

The Belting Inheritance

In celebration of distinguished author/critic Julian Symons' 80th year, here is the third and final revised edition of his classic history of mystery fiction. The views expressed here are as candid as ever. One bestselling writer is called unreadable, another compared to writers of "strip cartoon stories". But the general tone is warmly appreciative of every sort of book within the genre.

From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel

Bloody Murder

Crime-writer Charles Applegate decided to set his second novel in a school. Taking a job at one to see was it like ‘from the inside,’ Applegate found he was expected to do more than just people-watch. And when a murder took place, his skills as a detective writer were called upon as well. But real-life crime was to prove very different ...

The Paper Chase

Gilbert Welton’s life changed one breakfast time – his wife, Virginia, announced she was leaving him. Perhaps not the expected beginning of a comedy, but Symons employs his customary skill and brilliant wit to reveal the funny side of the tale. The result is a hilarious and riotous look at the life of a very ordinary middle-aged man.

The Man Who Lost His Wife

This is a collection of articles, reviews, interviews and essays by the 1990 Cartier Diamond Dagger award winner - critic and writer, Julian Symons. Following an introduction entitled The Crime Story Yesterday, Today, Tommorrow, this book offers a collection of Symons's writing on crime fiction from Britain, the United States and elsewhere, plus a section on real life stories, such as The Hiss Affair and the Yorkshire Ripper.

Symons on Crime Writing 60s to 90s

Criminal Practices

American-born John Wilson and his troop of distinguished friends were well known in the fashionable parts of London. And at their social gatherings the very latest fad was ‘Immaterialism’, and the quest for the perfect immaterial work of art – but what they hadn’t expected to find was the perfect immaterial murder.

The Immaterial Murder Case

Hugh Bennett, young reporter on a local paper, witnessed a terrible crime – a group of boys stabbed a man to death. But as Bennett writes the story for his paper, doubts creep in about what he had actually seen, and he finds himself facing an immense moral dilemma. The 'Progress of a Crime' was hailed as setting new standards in crime fiction.

The Progress Of A Crime

Traces the evolution of crime fiction from Poe's earliest detective stories and Collins' mysterious thrillers.

A History from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel

Mortal Consequences

Anderson was a bored, unhappy sales executive longing for something to liven up his monotonous life. But perhaps he wished too hard because not long later he found his wife lying dead at the bottom of the cellar stairs. An accident of course – so why wouldn’t the police believe him?

31st Of February

A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer.

Detective Story in Britain

General Gordon, charged with defending Khartoum, was stabbed to death when the Mahdi’s forces took the town by storm. Two days later, the Expeditionary force arrived to relieve Gordon, but found the town firmly in the hands of the Mahdi. In England’s Pride, Julian Symons tells the story of the disastrous and tragic failure of this mission.

England's Pride

When a girl turns up dead in a Mayfair mews, the police write it off as just another murdered prostitute, but Superintendent Manners isn’t quite so sure. He is convinced the key to the crime lies in ‘The Dell’ – an affluent suburban housing estate. And in ‘The Dell’ lives Solomon Grundy...

The End Of Solomon Grundy

A purchase at a second-hand bookshop seems innocent enough. Tony Shelton hadn’t expected it to be anything but that – and certainly hadn’t expected it to throw him head first into the world of violence, blackmail and robbery. For it becomes clear that the book has a rather higher price than he paid for it – a price that was to lead to murder.

Bland Beginning

Calabash Press

A Julian Symons Sherlockian Duet

The Case of the Frightened Promoter

The Tigers of Subtopia, and Other Stories

An Illustrated History from 1840

Crime and Detection

When a stranger arrives at Belting, he is met with a very mixed reception by the occupants of the old house. Claiming his so-called ‘rightful inheritance’ the stranger makes plans to take up residence at once. Such a thing was bound to cause problems amongst the family – but why were so many of them turning up dead?

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