Clapham, London, and died in Walmer, Kent. Julian Symons was born in London to auctioneer Morris Albert Symons (died 1929), of Russian-Polish Jewish immigrant...
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Alphonse James Albert Symons (pronounced SIMM-ons; (16 August 1900 – 26 August 1941) was an English writer and bibliographer. Symons was the eldest of four...
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Crime Novel, the author Julian Symons heads two chapters devoted to the Golden Age as "the Twenties" and "the Thirties". Symons notes that Philip Van Doren...
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politician Julian Sturgis (1848–1904), American-born British novelist, poet and dramatist Julian Symons (1912–1994), English author Julian Tennyson (1915–1945)...
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Women, Beware the Devil (Almeida Theatre) The Colour of Murder, by Julian Symons, BBC Radio 4 2003, with Tom Smith, Lydia Leonard, Frances Jeater A Sting...
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edited by Julian Symons, published by Faber and by Harper & Row) The Man Who... (1992); original short stories in honor of Julian Symons's 80th birthday...
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Queen name, which were mostly well-received. The novelist and critic Julian Symons called them "as absolutely fair and totally puzzling as the most passionate...
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Symons is a surname which may refer to: A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941), English author Arthur Symons (1865–1945), English poet Elaine Symons (born 1974)...
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Ellie's Flypapers" (1979), first published in Verdict of Thirteen, ed. Julian Symons (collected as "The Boxdale Inheritance" in The Mistletoe Murder and...
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compulsive work... heart-pounding suspense". In a 1986 piece on James by Julian Symons, he notes A Taste for Death "is the longest, most ambitious and the...
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witnesses broke down when Daniel cross-examines them. In response, author Julian Symons has argued that "those who search for fragments of detection in the...
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Chase, a 1966 memoir by Hal Porter The Paper Chase (Symons novel), a 1956 novel by Julian Symons The Paper Chase (Osborn novel), a 1971 novel by John...
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Len Lye. He became a life-long friend of Julian Symons, and a character based on Todd was included in Symons' first detective story, The Immaterial Murder...
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Armstrong (1957) Ed Lacy (1958) Stanley Ellin (1959) Celia Fremlin (1960) Julian Symons (1961) J.J. Marric (1962) Ellis Peters (1963) Eric Ambler (1964) John...
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Archived from the original on March 27, 2004. Retrieved October 3, 2010. Julian Symons. The Great Detectives: Seven Original Investigation,1981,ISBN 0810909782...
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milestones of crime fiction in his Who Done It?. In the early 1970s Julian Symons, in his history of crime fiction entitled Bloody Murder, famously referred...
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stitch in his literary shroud was not overstating the case." wrote Julian Symons in Bloody Murder. "This is [Van Dine's] last work, left in an only semi-expanded...
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debt to Ambler, including Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, John le Carré, Julian Symons, Alan Furst and Frederick Forsyth. The Dark Frontier (1936) Uncommon...
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Murder of Roger Ackroyd as "the best whodunit ... ever written". Author Julian Symons observed, "In an obvious sense, the book fits within the conventions ...
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State and on the illusions of an age which may already be behind us". Julian Symons responded, on 7 September, "Should we not expect, in Tribune at least...
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Deadly Arthur Upfield Man of Two Tribes J. J. Marric Gideon's Week 1957 Julian Symons ‡ The Colour of Murder Ngaio Marsh Off with His Head George Milner Your...
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Armstrong (1957) Ed Lacy (1958) Stanley Ellin (1959) Celia Fremlin (1960) Julian Symons (1961) J.J. Marric (1962) Ellis Peters (1963) Eric Ambler (1964) John...
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Armstrong (1957) Ed Lacy (1958) Stanley Ellin (1959) Celia Fremlin (1960) Julian Symons (1961) J.J. Marric (1962) Ellis Peters (1963) Eric Ambler (1964) John...
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(1955) The Second Man by Edward Grierson (1956) The Colour of Murder by Julian Symons (1957) Someone from the Past by Margot Bennett (1958) Passage of Arms...
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Armstrong (1957) Ed Lacy (1958) Stanley Ellin (1959) Celia Fremlin (1960) Julian Symons (1961) J.J. Marric (1962) Ellis Peters (1963) Eric Ambler (1964) John...
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Lawrie Scarlett - Bernard Spencer - Stephen Spender - Hal Summers - Julian Symons - Dylan Thomas - R. S. Thomas - Frank Thompson - Terence Tiller - Ruthven...
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Crime (1989) its editors demurred, finding that, "despite praise by Julian Symons and others, there is less to admire in this book than in most others...
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A Three-Pipe Problem (category Novels by Julian Symons)
Three-Pipe Problem is a 1975 mystery detective novel by the British writer Julian Symons. A pastiche of the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan...
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symbolism in unobtrusive places" and having "beautiful sentence[s]." Julian Symons wrote in 1993 that "the shock effect [of the novel] has gone," although...
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Armstrong (1957) Ed Lacy (1958) Stanley Ellin (1959) Celia Fremlin (1960) Julian Symons (1961) J.J. Marric (1962) Ellis Peters (1963) Eric Ambler (1964) John...
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