Author

Julian Symons

born 1912-05-30 128 known books newest first

**Julian Symons**'s work has probably been as varied as that of any living writer. He made a reputation before the Second World War as editor of Twentieth Century Verse, a 'little' magazine which published most of the young poets outside the immediate Auden circle. After that he put his foot on what he calls the treadmill of murder by publishing a comic crime story, which he now regards as so bad that he won't allow it to be reprinted. Several crime stories later, he can look back on two, *The Colour of Murder* and *The Progress of Crime*, that have received awards as the best books of their year. He still keeps a toe in what he regards as the generally shallow waters of recent poetry, but also has a quite separate reputation as a biographer (of figures as diverse as Thomas Carlyle and Horatio Bottomley) and a social and military historian (he has written a full-length study of the 1926 General Strike and the only book about the expedition to relieve Gordon at Khartoum). Despite the diversity of his interests, he has never wavered in his enthusiasm and appetite for crime stories. Hence *Bloody Murder*, a study of the genre. His latest publications are *The Players and the Game, The Plot Against Roger Rider* and *A Three Pipe Problem*.

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128 books

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Books

The Detections of Francis Quarles (Lost Classics)

A sort of virtue

The man who hated television and other stories

Playing happy families

Something like a love affair

The Advertising Murders

Death's Darkest Face

Ellery Queen's Eyes of Mystery

A Three-pipe Problem (Classic Crime)

The Penguin Classic Crime Ombnibus

The Kentish manor murders

Conan Doyle

Did Sherlock Holmes meet Hercule Poirot?

Makers of the new

A criminal comedy

Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel

Dashiell Hammett

The Name of Annabel Lee (Crime Monthly)

Tigers of Subtopia

The Detling murders

Critical observations

The Great Detectives

Tom Adams' Agatha Christie Cover Story

Sweet Adelaide

The Blackheath poisonings

The tell-tale heart

The paper chase

The plot against Roger Rider

Mortal consequences

The Players and the Game

The man who lost his wife

The man whose dreams came true

The man who killed himself

A pictorial history of crime

Crime and detection

Critical occasions

The Julian Symons omnibus

England's Pride

The Belting Inheritance

The end of Solomon Grundy

A man called Jones

Buller's campaign

The detective story in Britain

The killing of Francie Lake

A reasonable doubt

The Progress of a Crime

The thirties

The Gigantic Shadow

Color of Murder

The General Strike

Horatio Bottomley

The immaterial murder case

The narrowing circle

The broken penny

Thomas Carlyle

Charles Dickens

A.J.A. Symons, his life and speculations

The 31st of February

Bland beginning

The second man

1948 and 1984

1948 and 1984

31st of February

Agatha Christie, the art of her crimes

A.J.A. Symons 1900-1941

A.J.A. Symons, Brother Speculator

A la carte

A man called Jones

A three pipe problem

Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie

Between the Wars: Britain in photographs

Bland Beginning

Bogue's fortune

Carlyle

Carlyle Selected Works, Reminiscences and Letters

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Confusions about X

Crime and detection quiz