David
Belbin. (ed) City of Crime. pbk Five
Leaves Pub. June 97 0 907123 12 0 £7.99 City of Crime includes a rich variety of new crime stories from established authors and new talents. Unusually the collection includes a mixture of genre writers and literary authors. Notes on Contributors
Catharine Arnold is the author of Lost Time and Changeling published by Hodder. David Belbin is the author of the police series The Beat and many other Point Crime novels for young adults. He is Britain's best-selling teen crime writer. Robert Cordell has written a text book on Bio-chemistry, this is his first published short story. Michael Eaton's screenplays include .Signs and Wonders, Shoot to Kill and Fellow Traveller, No Smoke, published here is the companion story to his Screen Two play, Flowers of the Forest. Ray Flynn is a retired Police Inspector. Hodder publish his novels including Seascape with Body and Fine Body of Men. John Harvey is the author of nine Resnick novels, his latest being Easy Meat. City of Crime includes a new Resnick short story. H R F Keating is the author of the Inspector Ghote series and many other crime novels. He is a past president of the British Crime Writers Association. Robert McMinn's stories have appeared in the late Slow Dance magazine. Stanley Middleton is the author of many books including Brief Moments, Married Past Redemption and Two Brothers. He is a past winner of the Booker Prize with Holiday. Peter Mortimer runs the Iron Press in Newcastle. He has had numerous plays produced on stage and radio and has published several poetry collections. Brendan Murphy teaches Creative Writing at the University of Derby his stories have appeared on Radio 4. Julie Myerson writes for the Independent The Obsever and other papers. Picador have published two of her novels, Sleepwalking and The Touch.. Frank Palmer is the author of the police procedural novels in the Jacko and Todd series. Alan Sillitoe recently published his autobiography, Life Without Armour and his Collected Short Stories. His novels include The Loneliness of the long Distance Runner .Saturday Night, Sunday Morning. Keith Wright is a CID sergeant. Constable have published four of his police novels including One Oblique One.
