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Robert Barnard

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Born: November 22 1936

Died: 1818 09 20132013

Aka Bernard Bastable.

Robert Barnard was an English crime writer, critic and lecturer.

Born in Essex, Barnard was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Colchester and at Balliol College in Oxford. 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 has said that his favourite crime writer is Agatha Christie. In 1980 he 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.

Under the pseudonym Bernard Bastable, Robert Barnard has published one standalone novel and three alternate history books starring Wolfgang Mozart as a detective, he having survived to old age.

Barnard lived with his wife Louise in Yorkshire.

Series:
* Perry Trethowan
* Charlie Peace

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Books from Robert Barnard

Brat Farrar

The Franchise Affair

To Love and Be Wise

Out of the Blackout

Corpse In A Gilded Cage

The Bones In The Attic

The Skeleton in the Grass

Death and the Chaste Apprentice

Death By Sheer Torture

The Case of the Missing Brontë

A Scandal in Belgravia

A Little Local Murder

Death of A Mystery Writer

A Fatal Attachment

Unholy Dying

A City Of Strangers

Joan Hess Presents Malice Domestic (Malice Domestic, #9)

A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie

A Classic Christmas Crime

Crime Through Time II