Julian Symons, Author Mysterious Press $25 (199p) ISBN 978-0-89296-495-6
Distinguished British crime writer Symons ( The Colour of Murder ) carves a little gem of manners, murder and indirection. Judith Lassiter, 37, married to Victor, a handsome and successful architect, feels so restless that she copies out passionate...
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Julian Symons, Author Mysterious Press $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-89296-578-6
A much-honored English author of nearly 30 crime novels, Symons (Sweet Adelaide) again dissects the English middle class in a plot with a twin-screwed narrative. But this time, Symons uncharacteristically delivers less than the book initially...
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Julian Symons, Author Mysterious Press $15.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-247-1
In a biography that marks the 100th anniversary of the first Sherlock Holmes story, ""A Study in Scarlet,'' Symons, renowned for his own mysteries and as a critic of the genre, writes knowledgeably and empathetically about the prolific Victorian...
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Julian Symons, Author Warner Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-40192-0
Award-winning mystery author Symons limns the sinister transformation of the wife of a successful British architect. (Jan.)
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Julian Symons, Author Viking Books $14.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-670-80827-4
Two Englishmen have met suspicious ends in Veniceone by gunshot, the other by drowning. That much is certain but nothing else is. Murder? Suicide? Accident? Another mystery is the anonymous notes sent to residents of a quiet English village,...
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Julian Symons, Author Viking Books $15.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-670-82142-6
Symons is appreciated internationally as a critic and biographer of crime novelists and the author of elegant British mysteries. Featuring actor Sherwood Haynes again (The Three-Pipe Solution), this story evolves from Haynes's invitation to play the
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Julian Symons, Author Penguin Books $5.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-013263-2
Symons plays a role in his own novel when central character Geoffrey Elder entrusts him with secrets about a poet's murder. ``The president of Britain's Detective Club brings all the experience of his distinguished literary career to the writing of...
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Julian Symons. Poisoned Pen, $12.95 trade paper (238p) ISBN 978-1-464210-87-7
An intriguing puzzle centered on identity drives this entry in the British Library Crime Classics series, first published in 1965, from MWA Grand Master Symons (1912–1994). Within five weeks in 1944, Lady Wainwright learns that two of her four sons,
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Julian Symons. Poisoned Pen, $12.95 trade paper (282p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1089-1
Originally published in 1957, this suspenseful entry in the British Library Crime Classics series from MWA Grand Master Symons (1912–1994) focuses on the psychology of the accused. It opens with a statement to a consulting psychiatrist by John...
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Julian Symons. Poisoned Pen, $14.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-7282-1991-2
A confrontation during a dance between a gang of young hooligans and landowner James Corby in the English village of Far Wether drives this taut mystery from MWA Grand Master Symons (1912–1994), first published in 1960. After vowing to return, the...
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