• 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...
    36 KB (4,893 words) - 23:34, 13 November 2024
  • 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...
    5 KB (636 words) - 05:50, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Golden Age of Detective Fiction
    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...
    14 KB (1,763 words) - 07:19, 26 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Julian (given name)
    politician Julian Sturgis (1848–1904), American-born British novelist, poet and dramatist Julian Symons (1912–1994), English author Julian Tennyson (1915–1945)...
    65 KB (7,607 words) - 15:39, 24 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lydia Leonard
    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...
    19 KB (1,208 words) - 21:31, 31 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Detection Club
    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...
    10 KB (1,223 words) - 03:27, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ellery Queen
    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...
    58 KB (6,664 words) - 20:19, 9 December 2024
  • 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)...
    3 KB (358 words) - 04:34, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for P. D. James
    Ellie's Flypapers" (1979), first published in Verdict of Thirteen, ed. Julian Symons (collected as "The Boxdale Inheritance" in The Mistletoe Murder and...
    35 KB (3,178 words) - 03:33, 28 December 2024
  • 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...
    4 KB (326 words) - 14:36, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Detective fiction
    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...
    89 KB (9,199 words) - 22:49, 12 December 2024
  • 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...
    2 KB (274 words) - 14:46, 22 April 2024
  • 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...
    13 KB (1,655 words) - 05:45, 29 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for John le Carré
    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...
    68 KB (6,434 words) - 03:11, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of fictional detectives
    Archived from the original on March 27, 2004. Retrieved October 3, 2010. Julian Symons. The Great Detectives: Seven Original Investigation,1981,ISBN 0810909782...
    25 KB (2,683 words) - 22:12, 16 December 2024
  • 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...
    12 KB (1,785 words) - 01:12, 18 September 2023
  • 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...
    3 KB (264 words) - 08:22, 22 October 2022
  • debt to Ambler, including Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, John le Carré, Julian Symons, Alan Furst and Frederick Forsyth. The Dark Frontier (1936) Uncommon...
    18 KB (2,041 words) - 00:43, 2 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Agatha Christie
    Murder of Roger Ackroyd as "the best whodunit ... ever written". Author Julian Symons observed, "In an obvious sense, the book fits within the conventions ...
    161 KB (15,665 words) - 07:34, 2 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Animal Farm
    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...
    80 KB (9,383 words) - 20:27, 18 December 2024
  • 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...
    38 KB (545 words) - 09:24, 20 November 2024
  • 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...
    12 KB (948 words) - 01:58, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stephen King
    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...
    158 KB (15,806 words) - 02:27, 2 January 2025
  • (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...
    13 KB (1,660 words) - 02:27, 5 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Noah Hawley
    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...
    17 KB (1,261 words) - 01:59, 22 September 2024
  • Lawrie Scarlett - Bernard Spencer - Stephen Spender - Hal Summers - Julian Symons - Dylan Thomas - R. S. Thomas - Frank Thompson - Terence Tiller - Ruthven...
    22 KB (2,052 words) - 19:51, 16 November 2024
  • 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...
    7 KB (941 words) - 01:57, 10 November 2024
  • 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...
    2 KB (163 words) - 13:00, 14 November 2024
  • symbolism in unobtrusive places" and having "beautiful sentence[s]." Julian Symons wrote in 1993 that "the shock effect [of the novel] has gone," although...
    47 KB (5,574 words) - 03:45, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Michael Crichton
    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...
    113 KB (11,586 words) - 19:28, 21 December 2024