Andrew Taylor

Page Updated: 09/09/02

Andrew Taylor

Death's Own Door

Email: andrew@andrew-taylor.co.uk

WebPage: http://www.andrew-taylor.co.uk

by Andrew Taylor

About the Author (Photo by Caroline Taylor)

Bibliography

Audio Tape Soundings (2002)

Death's Own Door
Winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical dagger
When a widower with a distinguished war record is found dead in his summerhouse with a bottle of whisky beside him, the verdict is suicide. But Inspector Richard Thornhill and his lover, reporter Jill Francis, soon realise there’s far more to it than that.
The widower’s death touches many lives. The investigation leads to a moderately famous artist and his wife. To Thornhill’s former boss, retired and loathing it. To a charwoman and an army officer. To a councillor with more pies than fingers to put in them. To a dilettante magazine proprietor and an unmarried mother. Worst of all, to Thornhill’s growing horror, the investigation leads to his wife, Edith, and to another death during a highly charged summer before the war. But a third death is yet to come.
‘There’s no denying Taylor’s talent.’ Time Out
'The most underrated crime writer in Britain today' Val McDermid
'An absorbing read' Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph
Peter Wickham was bitten early by the travel bug, coming to England from New Zealand as a child. He has worked all over England and Wales in repertory and is determined to work more in Scotland! Acting and directing aboard the Q.E11 took him from Singapore to Venezuela, and a short season in Istanbul followed. In 1990 he directed and appeared in a revue on a tour of Czechoslovakia.
Many TV appearances started in Dixon of Dock Green (during its later years!) and include most recently A Sense of Guilt. But after theatre his favourite medium is sound; he has been heard many, many times on radio, in plays, reading poetry, short stories and serials.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 30 mins

About The Author
Andrew Taylor has been a full-time writer since 1981. He has written over twenty books, mainly crime novels and thrillers. They include the series featuring William Dougal, a detective who occasionally commits murders as well as solves them; an espionage trilogy whose chronology stretches from the 1930s to the 1980s; psychological thrillers; and books for younger readers.
CAROLINE MINUSCULE won the John Creasey Memorial Award from the Crime Writers' Association and an Edgar Scroll from the Mystery Writers of America. OUR FATHERS' LIES was shortlisted for the CWA's Gold Dagger. The teenage thriller SNAPSHOT was shortlisted for the NatWest Children's Book of the Year Award.
Public Lending Right estimates put his British public library readership in the top one per cent. When CAROLINE MINUSCULE was serialised on BBC Radio 4 it reached a peak audience of up to four million. He was educated at the universities of Cambridge and London. He has worked as a boatbuilder, wages clerk, teacher, librarian, labourer and freelance publisher's editor. He and his wife (and plot consultant) live with their children in the Forest of Dean on the borders of England and Wales. He serves on the committee of the Crime Writers' Association.

Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Death's Own Door (Soundings, 2002)