Constance Lindsay Taylor

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Constance Lindsay Taylor (born January 10, 1907 in Dovercourt , Essex , † 2000 ) was a British writer who was known under the male stage name Guy Cullingford as a writer of detective novels and short stories.

Career

First she published poetry, short stories and small journalistic works from 1928 . She married in 1930 and took a break from work until the children grew up. It wasn't until 1948 that her first novel, the crime thriller Murder with Relish , appeared under her real name. Another nine detective novels came out in the 1950s and 1960s, all under the masculine pseudonym Guy Cullingford.

Three of her stories were filmed for British television in the 1970s, including the 1975 television play The Boy Dave directed by John Frankau. She provided the script.

Three more book publications followed at long intervals. The Bread and Butter Miss was released in 1979, Bother at the Barbican in 1991 and Thirteen Short Stories in 1993 . Several of her short stories were published by Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine . Only one of her novels did not belong in the crime genre. The introduced name "Cullingford" was retained. Since she joined the associations of the British crime writers "Detection Club", "Crime Writers Association" and the " Writers' Guild of Great Britain ", the real identity was no longer a secret.

Her novels appeared simultaneously in a British and an American edition in the 1950s. From the 1960s, there were no longer any special US editions. The British books came out in paperback from Penguin Books .

Only seven of her twelve books were translated into German, first in the 1960s by Desch Verlag and later in the 1990s by Diogenes Verlag in Zurich . The literary critic Thomas Wörtche praised her ability to "analyze gender relations coolly and sarcastically" in her novels.

The writer died in 2000 at the age of 93.

Works

  • 1948: Murder with Relish. Skeffington, London
  • 1952: If wishes were hearses. Hammond, London and Lippincott, Philadelphia
  • 1953: Post Mortem. Hammond, London and Lippincott, New York
    • The cats does not stop to mice. Translated from the English by Stefanie Neumann. Munich, Vienna, Basel: Desch 1962
    • Post mortem. From d. English by Helmut Degner and Peter Naujack. Diogenes, Zurich 1988
  • 1954: Conjurer's Coffin. JB Lippincott, Philadelphia 1954 and Hammond, London
    • The Wizard of Soho. Munich, Vienna, Basel: Desch, 1963. Translated by Stefanie Neumann. The Midnight Books; Vol. 132
    • The Wizard of Soho. Zurich: Diogenes, 1991. Translated from the English by Irene Holicki. 333 pp. ISBN 3-257-21975-X
  • 1956: Framed for Hanging. Hammond, London
    • Who turns another rope. Translated from the English by Irene Holicki. 334 S. Diogenes 1993. ISBN 3-257-22653-5
  • 1958: The Whipping Boys. Hammond, London
    • One o'clock at night. Munich; Vienna; Basel: Desch, 1960. Translated by Stefanie Neumann. 202 pp.
    • Whipping boy. Diogenes, Zurich 1994. Translated from the English by Stefanie Neumann. 280 pp. ISBN 3-257-22709-4
  • 1960: A Touch of Drama. Hammond, London
  • 1962 Third Party Risk. Bles, London
    • Women are strong together. Translated from the English by Nikolaus Stingl. 284 S. Diogenes, Zurich 1992
  • 1964: Brink of Disaster. Geoffrey Bles, London 1964. 221 pp.
    • Step into ruin. Diogenes, Zurich 1994. 276 pp. Translated from the English by Irene Holicki. ISBN 3-257-22752-3
  • 1968: The Stylist. Bles, London
  • 1979: The Bread and Butter Miss
  • 1991: Bother at the Barbican
  • 1993: Thirteen Short Stories
    • My Unfair Lady and other stories (Stories). Translated from the English by Irene Holicki. 275 pp. Diogenes ISBN 3-257-22598-9

Web links

Individual references, sources

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629396/fullcredits#cast
  2. ↑ Guy Cullingford Bibliography at UK First Edition Books
  3. ↑ Biographical and bibliographical information on krimi-couch.de
  4. ↑ Guy Cullingford Crime & Mystery Books , detective-fiction.com
  5. ↑ Mordsvergnügen , Cicero online July 22, 2010, accessed August 28, 2012
  6. ^ The Saturday Review, April 18, 1953 , online review as PDF
  7. ↑ Review by Michael Drewniok , krimi-couch.de August 2007, accessed August 28, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Constance Lindsay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cullingford, Guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Dovercourt , Essex
DATE OF DEATH 2000