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Barnard, Robert

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Robert Barnard (1936 - 2013) lived in Leeds, was born in Essex and educated at Balliol. He had a distinguished career as an academic before he became a full-time writer. His first crime novel, DEATH OF AN OLD GOAT, was written while he was professor of English at the University of Tromso in Norway, the worlds most northerly university. He was a writer of great versatility, from the light and satirical tone of his earlier books to the more psychological preoccupations of recent ones, such as A FATAL ATTACHMENT. Under the name of Bernard Bastable he also wrote novels featuring Mozart as a detective, and is the author of many short stories. He created several detectives, including Perry Trethowan and Charlie Peace. Robert Barnard said he wrote only to entertain. He regarded Agatha Christie as his ideal crime writer and published an appreciation of her work, A TALENT TO DECEIVE, as well as books on Dickens, a history of English literature and nearly thirty mysteries. Robert Barnard was the winner of the 2003 CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for a lifetime of achievement.

To read an obituary written by Martin Edwards please click here.

Crime / Mysteries		Articles	Reviews
2011	Rogue's Gallery (Collection of short stories)
2010	A Stranger in the Family
2009	The Killings on Jubilee Terrace
2008	Last Post
2005	Dying Flames
2004	The Graveyard Position
2003	A Cry From The Dark
2002	The Mistress of Alderley
2000	Unholy Dying
1999	Touched by the Dead
1994	Masters of the House
1991	Scandal in Belgravia
1990	A City of Strangers
1988	At Deaths Door
1987	The Skeleton in the Grass
1986	Political Suicide
1985	Disposal of the Living
1984	A Corpse in a Gilded Cage
1984	Out of the Blackout
1983	Little Victims
1981	Mother's Boys
1980	Death in a Cold Climate
1979	Posthumous Papers
1978	Unruly Son
1977	Blood Brotherhood
1977	Death on the High Cs
1976	A Little Local Murder
1974	Death of an Old Goat

Charlie Peace Series		Articles	Reviews
2011	A Charitable Body
2006	A Fall from Grace
2001	The Bones in the Attic
1998	The Corpse at the Haworth Tandoori
1997	No Place of Safety
1995	The Bad Samaritan
1993	A Hovering of Vultures
1992	A Fatal Attachment
1989	Death and the Chaste Apprentice

Perry Trethowan Series		Articles	Reviews
1987	Death in Purple Prose
1986	Bodies
1983	The Case of the Missing Bronte (Updated Title)
1982	Death and the Princess
1981	Sheer Torture