Elleston Trevor

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Elleston Trevor , born Trevor Dudley-Smith ( February 27, 1920 - July 21, 1995 in Bromley , Kent ), was a British writer who wrote detective novels , children's and youth literature , plays and short stories . His many other pseudonyms were conspicuous: Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Roger Fitzalan, Adam Hall, Howard North, Simon Rattray, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith and Lesley Stone. Four novels appeared under his maiden name Trevor Dudley-Smith.

Life

During his less fortunate youth, Trevor attended Yardley Court Preparatory School and Sevenoaks Boarding School (1932-1938). At the age of 18 he practiced as a young racing driver for some time, switched to the Royal Air Force (RAF) at the beginning of the war and worked there as an aircraft engineer. Due to hypersensitivity in his eyes, he did not go on a flying mission. In 1947 he married his first wife Jonquil Burgess , a children's author with whom he had a son. Between 1958 and 1973 Trevor lived in France and then settled in Phoenix (Arizona) . After his wife's death in 1986, he married the writer Chaille Anne Groom. Elleston Trevor died of cancer in Cave Creek in 1995 .

Elleston Trevor began his writing career while serving in the RAF. The London publisher Gerald G. Swan promoted him through the publication of Trevor's short stories (Elleston Trevor Miscellany) or his animal stories for children. In 1946 he created his pseudonym Elleston Trevor , which he later adopted as the real name. With Night Sinister Trevor began a crime series with a protagonist in 1951, which brought him popularity in the English-speaking world. Under the pseudonym Simon Rattray , he had Hugo Bishop perform, who, similar to Agatha Christie's Belgian private investigator Hercule Poirot, created in 1920, solved his cases less violently with the "little gray cells".

His international breakthrough came with his Trevor 1964 translated into many languages novel The Flight of the Phoenix (dt. Phoenix out of the sand) , 1965 by Robert Aldrich filmed under the same title (dt. The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) ). The same year he achieved with the novel The Berlin Memorandum (dt. The Berlin Memorandum) another global success: Both the French Grand prix de littérature policière and the American Edgar Allan Poe Award went 1966 in which the most important category Best Novel at Elleston Trevor . With this agent thriller Trevor founded his quiller series , which he wrote under the pseudonym Adam Hall and which also made him famous in Germany. The novel was in 1966 by Michael Anderson , entitled The Quiller Memorandum - Risk from the darkness ( The Quiller Memorandum filmed). Until 1994, novels with the agent Quiller were published regularly , initially themed with the Cold War , later the works also dealt with terrorism or confrontations with the mafia . Trevor sent his agent to many crisis-ridden countries around half the world.

Awards

Works

Novels

Hugo Bishop series (as Simon Rattray)

  • 1951 Knight Sinister
  • 1952 Queen in Danger
  • 1953 Bishop in check
  • 1954 Dead Silence
  • 1955 Dead Circuit
  • 1957 Dead Sequence

Quiller Series (as Adam Hall)

  • 1965 The Berlin Memorandum
  • 1966 The 9th Directive
    • German The 9th command. Universitas, Berlin 1967.
  • 1968 The Striker Portfolio
  • 1971 The Warsaw Document
  • 1973 The Tango Briefing
  • 1975 The Mandarin Cypher
  • 1976 The Kobra Manifesto
  • 1978 The Sinkiang Executive
  • 1979 The Scorpion Signal
  • 1981 The Pekin Target (US title The Pekin g Target , 1982).
  • 1985 Northlight (US title: Quiller ).
  • 1988 Quiller's Run
  • 1989 Quiller KGB
  • 1990 Quiller Barracuda
  • 1991 Quiller Bamboo
  • 1992 Quiller Solitaire
  • 1993 Quiller Meridian
  • 1994 Quiller Salamander
  • 1996 Quiller Balalaika

Further

  • 1943 Over the Wall (as Trevor Dudley-Smith)
  • 1944 Double Who Double Crossed (as Trevor Dudley-Smith)
  • 1946 The Immortal Error
  • 1948 Escape to Fear (as Trevor Dudley-Smith)
  • 1948 Now Try the Morgue (as Trevor Dudley-Smith)
  • 1950 Chorus of Echoes
  • 1951 Dead on Course (as Mansell Black)
  • 1951 Image in the Dust (as Warwick Scott) (US title: Cockpit)
  • 1951 Redfern's Miracle
  • 1951 Sinister Cargo (as Mansell Black)
  • 1951 Tiger Street
  • 1952 A Blaze of Roses (UK title: The Fire-Raiser , 1970)
  • 1953 Shadow of Evil (as Mansell Black)
  • 1953 The Domesday Story (as Warwick Scott) (US title: Doomsday)
  • 1953 The Passion and the Pity
  • 1954 Steps in the Dark (as Mansell Black)
  • 1954 Naked Canvas (as Warwick Scott)
  • 1955 The Big Pick-Up
  • 1955 Squadron Airborne
  • 1956 The Killing Ground
  • 1956 Gale Force
    • German wind force 10. Zsolnay, Vienna 1957.
  • 1957 Heat Wave (as Caesar Smith)
  • 1957 The Pillars of Midnight
    • dt. The naked souls. Dörner, Düsseldorf 1965.
  • 1958 Dream of Death
  • 1959 silhouette
  • 1959 The VIP
  • 1960 The Billboard Madonna
  • 1960 The Mind of Max Duvine
  • 1961 The Burning Shore (US title: The Pasang Run , 1962),
    • German Flaming Coast. Zsolnay, Vienna 1962,
  • 1963 The Volcanoes of San Domingo (as Adam Hall)
  • 1964 The Flight of the Phoenix
    • German phoenix from the sand. Zsolnay, Vienna 1965.
  • 1965 The Second Chance
  • 1965 Weave a Rope of Sand
  • 1966 The Shoot
  • 1967 A Blaze of Arms (as Roger Fitzalan)
  • 1967 The Freebooters
  • 1968 A Place for the Wicked
    • dt. Where the bad guys hide. Zsolnay, Vienna 1969.
  • 1970 Bury Him Among Kings
  • 1973 Expressway (as Howard North)
  • 1975 The Paragon (US title: Night Stop )
  • 1977 The Theta Syndrome
  • 1977 Blue Jay Summer
  • 1977 Seven Witnesses
  • 1979 The Sibling (as Adam Hall)
  • 1981 The Damocles Sword
  • 1983 The Penthouse
  • 1984 Deathwatch
  • 1985 Siren Song (as Lesley Stone)
  • 1987 Riviera Story (as Lesley Stone)
  • 1994 The Sister
  • 1994 Flycatcher

Short stories

  • 1944 Elleston Trevor Micellany. Gerald G. Swan, London.
  • 1965 The Chicken Switch. In: Science Fantasy. Edition April 1965.
  • 1968 Last Rites. In: Espionage Magazine. Edition April 1968.

Books for children and young readers

Animal series

  • 1943 Scamperfoot the Pine Marten
  • 1944 Ripple-Swim the Otter
  • 1945 Shadow the Fox

Wumpus series

  • 1945 Wumpus
  • 1947 More about Wumpus
  • 1948 Where's Wumpus

Further

  • 1943 Into the Happy Glade (as Trevor Dudley-Smith)
  • 1944 By a Silver Stream (as Trevor Dudley-Smith)
  • 1945 Deep Wood
  • 1946 Heather Hill
  • 1948 The Island of the Pines
  • 1948 The Secret Travelers
  • 1948 Badger's Beech
  • 1948 The Wizard of the Wood
  • 1949 A Spy at Monk's Court (as Trevor Burgess)
  • 1949 Badger's Moon
  • 1949 Ant's Castle
  • 1950 Mystery of the Missing Book (as Trevor Burgess)
  • 1951 Mole's Castle
  • 1951 Sweethallow Valley
  • 1951 Challenge of the Firebrand
  • 1951 Secret Arena
  • 1953 The Racing Wraith (as Trevor Burgess)
  • 1955 Forbidden Kingdom
  • 1958 Badger's Wood
  • 1959 The Crystal City
  • 1959 Green Glade
  • 1963 Squirrel's Island
  • 1975 The Chipmunks of Willow Wood

Stage plays

  • 1959 The Last of the Daylight
  • 1960 Murder by All Means
  • 1963 The Search
  • 1971 A Pinch of Purple
  • 1972 A Touch of Purple
    • German colored traces. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1974.
  • 1972 Just Before Dawn

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b c d e Later editions under the pseudonym Adam Hall
  2. ↑ Later editions under the title Pawn in Jeopardy
  3. ↑ Later editions under the title Rook's Gambit
  4. ↑ Later editions under the title The Quiller Memorandum. the original edition from Collins, London, but under the title given here.
  5. ↑ a b c Later UK editions under the pseudonym Elleston Trevor
  6. ↑ Later editions under the pseudonym Elleston Trevor
  7. ↑ 1965 made into a film by Robert Aldrich with James Stewart , Richard Attenborough , Ernest Borgnine , Peter Finch , George Kennedy and Hardy Krüger . German Title: The Flight of the Phoenix. 2004 remake again filmed by John Moore .
  8. ^ Later in the UK under the pseudonym Adam Hall
  9. ↑ US editions under the pseudonym Leslie Stone
  10. ↑ Exact year unknown, the piece could also be older
personal data
SURNAME Trevor, Elleston
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dudley-Smith, Trevor (maiden name); Black, Mansell (pseudonym); Burgess, Trevor (pseudonym); Fitzalan, Roger (pseudonym); Hall, Adam (pseudonym); North, Howard (pen name); Rattray, Simon (pseudonym); Scott, Warwick (pseudonym); Smith, Caesar (pseudonym); Stone, Lesley (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH London Borough of Bromley , London , England
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1995
Place of death Phoenix , Arizona , United States