Derek Raymond

Derek Raymond (born June 12, 1931 in London ; † July 30, 1994 ibid; actually Robin William Arthur Cook ) was a British writer who mainly wrote noir novels.

Life

Derek Raymond was the son of an English textile entrepreneur and grew up in London, since 1937 on the family castle in Kent . In 1944 he was admitted to the Eton Elite College, but dropped out of school three years later. In the 1950s he lived in Paris, New York and Spain, where he was sentenced to prison for insulting Franco . In 1960 Raymond returned to England and two years later published The Crust on its Uppers, a novel about the London underworld.

In the late 1960s, he worked in London as a novelist, porn producer, gambling operator and taxi driver. In the meantime he lived in an anarchist commune in Italy, and in the 1970s most of the time in France.

Derek Raymond achieved his literary breakthrough in the 1980s and 1990s with his Factory series about a sergeant from Department A14 of the London Police, who in the five novels in the series deals with brutally dismembered murder victims and in the hunt for the sadistic murderers is increasingly being driven into one's own psychological abyss. The fourth novel in the Factory series Ich war Dora Suarez received the German Crime Prize in 1991 .

Derek Raymond was married five times (all marriages were divorced) and had a son and a daughter. He died of cancer in July 1994.

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Early novels (published under Robin Cook )

1962: The Crust on its Uppers
1963: Bomb Surprise
1966: The Legacy of the Stiff Upper Lip
1967: Public Parts and Private Places
1970: A State of Denmark
1971: The Tenants of Dirt Street

French novels (published under Robin Cook )

1983: Le Soleil Qui S'Eteint
1988: Cauchemar Dans La Rue
- Nightmare in the streets , German by Jürgen Bürger, Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1990. ISBN 978-3-404-19138-3

The Factory Series

1984: He Died with His Eyes Open
- He died with his eyes open , Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1989. ISBN 978-3-404-19074-4
1985: The Devil's Home on Leave
- The devil has home leave , Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1989. ISBN 978-3-404-19076-8
1986: How the Dead Live
- How the dead live , Bastei-Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1989. ISBN 978-3-404-19077-5
1990: I Was Dora Suarez
- I was Dora Suarez
1993: Dead Man Upright
- Profile of a serial killer [published under Robin Cook ], German by Pieke Biermann , Rotbuch, Hamburg 1996. ISBN 978-3-88022-373-8

Autobiography

1992: The Hidden Files
- The hidden files , German by Michael K. Iwoleit and Reinhold H. Mai, Dumont, Cologne 1999. ISBN 978-3-7701-4782-3

Last novel

1994: Not Till the Red Fog Rises
- Red Fog , German by Angelika Müller; Maas, Berlin 1996

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personal data
SURNAME	Raymond, Derek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cook, Robert William Arthur (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British writer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 12, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	July 30, 1994
Place of death	London