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Robert Barnard

UK  (1936 - )
aka
Bernard Bastable
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About Robert Barnard
Robert Barnard, who, with his wife Louise, currently makes his home in Yorkshire, was born in Essex on 23 November, 1936. Educated at the Royal Grammar School in Colchester and at Balliol College, Oxford, taking his Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1972, he spent many years as a distinguished academic while establishing himself as one of today's most distinguished crime writers. His fascination with the pure detective story is evident in his many novels and short stories, as is his remarkable catholicity of tastes. The Guest of Honor at 1998's Malice Domestic mystery conference, recipient of the CWA's Golden Handcuffs Award, several times nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Barnard maintains he writes only to entertain. It is hardly fair that a man aso gifted as a writer should be equally skilled as a speaker, but so it is. Barnard has graced many literary events, delivered many fine lectures, and generously boosted the works of authors he admires. Nowhere is his won talent to deceive better showcased than in his 1991 clasic, A Scandal in Belgravia.
 
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Series
Perry Trethowan
Sheer Torture (1981)
     aka Death by Sheer Torture
Death and the Princess (1982)
The Missing Bronte (1983)
     aka The Case of the Missing Bronte
Bodies (1986)
Death in Purple Prose (1987)
     aka The Cherry Blossom Corpse
Sheer TortureDeath and the PrincessThe Missing BronteBodies
Death in Purple Prose
 
Death and the Chaste ApprenticeA Fatal AttachmentA Hovering of VulturesThe Bad Samaritan
No Place of SafetyThe Corpse at the Haworth TandooriThe Bones in the Attic
 
Amadeus Mozart (writing as Bernard Bastable)
Dead, Mr. Mozart (1994)
Too Many Notes, Mr. Mozart (1995)
Dead, Mr. MozartToo Many Notes, Mr. Mozart
 
Robert Barnard recommends
Mad About the Boy?
Mad About the Boy? (2008)
(Jack Haldean Murder Mystery, book 2)
Dolores Gordon-Smith
"Recaptures the vitality and insouciance of the Golden Age of writers."



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