Robert Barnard

Robert Barnard (born November 23, 1936) is a mystery writer, critic and lecturer. His first crime novel, "A Little Local Murder", was published in 1976. The novel was written while he was a lecturer at University of Tromsø in Norway. He has gone on to write more than 40 other books and numerous short stories.

Barnard states his favourite crime writer is Agatha Christie, and in 1980 published a critique of her work titled "A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie".

Barnard was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2003 by the Crime Writers Association for a lifetime of achievement. [cite web | url=http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/2003/cartier.html | title=The CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger 2003 | accessdate=2008-03-17 ]

Under the pseudonym Bernard Bastable Barnard published a series of alternate history mystery novels featuring Wolfgang Mozart as a detective, he having survived to old age.

Bibliography

Mystery novels

* "A Little Local Murder" (1976)
* "Death on the High Cs" (1977)
* "Death of an Old Goat" (1977)
* "Blood Brotherhood" (1977)
* "Unruly Son" (1978) aka "Death of a Mystery Writer"
* "Posthumous Papers" (1979) aka "Death of a Literary Widow"
* "Death in a Cold Climate" (1980)
* "Mother's Boys" (1981) aka "Death of a Perfect Mother"
* "Little Victims" (1983) aka "School for Murder"
* "Out of the Blackout" (1984)
* "A Corpse in a Gilded Cage" (1984)
* "Disposal of the Living" (1985) aka "Fete Fatale"
* "Political Suicide" (1986)
* "The Skeleton in the Grass" (1987)
* "At Death's Door" (1988) ISBN 978-0-00-232195-2
* "A City of Strangers" (1990) ISBN 978-0-440-20750-4
* "Scandal in Belgravia" (1991) ISBN 978-1-890208-16-5
* "Masters of the House" (1994) ISBN 978-0-380-72511-3
* "Touched by the Dead" (1999)ISBN 978-0-00-232684-1
* "Unholy Dying" (2000) ISBN 978-0-7432-0149-0
* "The Mistress of Alderley" (2002) ISBN 978-0-7490-0686-0
* "A Cry From The Dark" (2003) ISBN 978-0-7432-5345-1
* "The Graveyard Position" (2004) ISBN 978-0-7432-5346-8
* "Dying Flames" (2005) ISBN 978-0-7432-7219-3
* "Last Post" (2008) ISBN 978-0-7490-8068-6

Charlie Peace novels

* "Death and the Chaste Apprentice" (1989)
* "A Fatal Attachment" (1992) ISBN 978-0-380-71998-3
* "A Hovering of Vultures" (1993) ISBN 978-0-380-77653-5
* "The Bad Samaritan" (1995) ISBN 978-0-00-232562-2
* "No Place of Safety" (1997) ISBN 978-0-684-84503-6
* "The Corpse at the Haworth Tandoori" (1998) ISBN 978-0-7432-2427-7
* "The Bones in the Attic" (2001) ISBN 978-0-684-87379-4
* "A Fall from Grace" (2006) ISBN 978-0-7432-7220-9

Perry Trethowan novels

* "Death by Sheer Torture" (1981)
* "Death and the Princess" (1982)
* "The Missing Bronte" (1983)
* "Bodies" (1986)
* "Death in Purple Prose" (1987) aka "The Cherry Blossom Corpse"

Novels written as Bernard Bastable

* "Dead, Mr. Mozart" (1995) ISBN 978-0-312-11771-9
* "Mansion and its Murder" (1998) ISBN 978-0-7867-0515-3
* "Too Many Notes, Mr. Mozart" (1998) ISBN 978-0-7515-1806-1

Non-fiction

* Imagery and Theme in the Novels of Dickens (1974)
* A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie (1980)
* A Short History of English Literature (1984) ISBN 978-0-631-19088-2
* Emily Brontë (British Library Writers' lives series) (2000) ISBN 0712346589
* A Brontë encyclopedia (with Louise Barnard) (2007) ISBN 1405151196

References

Ford, Susan Allen. "Stately Homes of England: Robert Barnard's Country House Mysteries" in "CLUES: A Journal of Detection" 23.4 (Summer 2005): 3-14.

External links

* [http://www.iblist.com/author2770.htm Internet Book List]
* [http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/2003/cartier.html CWA Award Announcement]
* [http://wiredforbooks.org/robertbarnard/ 1984 interview with Robert Barnard] by Don Swaim at Wired for Books
* 2006 [http://www.elizabethfoxwell.com/ItsaMystery.html audio interview] with Robert Barnard by Elizabeth Foxwell