Martin Cruz Smith

Martin Cruz Smith

Martin Cruz Smith (born November 3, 1942 in Reading , Pennsylvania ; actually William Martin Smith ) is an American writer.

Life

Martin Cruz Smith was born in Reading , Pennsylvania in 1942 to a jazz musician and an Indian woman.

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania , graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1964, and worked as a journalist from 1965 to 1969 before starting writing. In the 1970s he also published his novels under pseudonyms such as Nick Carter, Martin Quinn, Simon Quinn and Martin Smith. The series about Moscow investigator Arkadi Renko made him famous, whose first volume Gorky Park (1981) became a worldwide bestseller, was awarded the Gold Dagger in the USA and was made into a film in 1983 .

Under the community pseudonym Jake Logan , he wrote two of the well over 300 volumes in the western novel series Slocum in the early 1970s ; also for the series of around 260 volumes on the spy Nick Carter .

He lives with his family in San Rafael , California .

Works

Published under the pseudonym Simon Quinn

• 1974 The Devil in Kansas
• 1974 The Last Time I Saw Hell
• 1974 Nuplex Red
• 1974 His Eminence, Death
• 1975 The Midas Coffin
• 1976 Last Rites for the Vulture

As a closed row with the main character of an inquisitor and:

• 1975 The Human Factor

The Arkadi-Renko series

• 1981 Gorky Park
  • Gorki-Park, German by Wulf Bergner ; Scherz, Munich, Bern 1982. ISBN 3-502-10140-X .
• 1989 Polar Star
  • Polar Star, German by Gertrud Theiss; Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1990. ISBN 3-455-00403-2 .
• 1991 Red Square
  • The labyrinth, German by Hans-Heinrich Wellmann; Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1993. ISBN 3-455-00404-0 .
• 1999 Havana Bay
  • Night in Havana, German by Kristian Lutze; Munich, Bertelsmann 1999. ISBN 3-570-00077-X .
• 2004 Wolves Eat Dogs
  • Faithful Comrades, German by Reiner Pfleiderer; Bertelsmann, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-570-00470-8 .
• 2007 Stalin's Ghost
  • Stalins Geist, German by Rainer Schmidt; Bertelsmann, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-570-00919-2 .
• 2010 Three Stations
  • The golden mile, German by Rainer Schmidt; Bertelsmann, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-570-00920-8 .
• 2013 Tatiana
  • Tatjana, German by Susanne Aeckerle; Bertelsmann, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-570-10191-9 .

The series around the police officer Arkadi Renko not only tells the story of self-contained criminal cases, but also documents the development from the Soviet Union in the 1980s to today's Russia.

Romano Gray novels

• 1971 Gypsy in Amber (as Martin Smith)
  • Sing, Zigeuner, Sing, German by Heinz Kausträter; Scherz, Bern, Munich, Vienna 1984. ISBN 3-502-50986-7 .
  • also as: The ritual, same translation; Heyne, Munich 1996. ISBN 3-453-09290-2 .
• 1972 Canto for a Gypsy (as Martin Smith)
  • Dance of death around a royal crown, German by Heinz Kausträter; Scherz, Bern, Munich, Vienna 1984. ISBN 3-502-50966-2 .

Other novels

• 1970 The Indians Won
  • The other winner, German by Michael Görden; Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1984. ISBN 3-404-10349-1 .
• 1972 The Analog Bullet
  • The Capitol, German by Wolfgang Crass; Heyne, Munich 1982. ISBN 3-453-01622-X .
• 1972 Inca Death Squad (under the pseudonym Nick Carter)
• 1973 The Devil's Dozen (under the pseudonym Nick Carter)
• 1975 The Wilderness Family (under the pseudonym Martin Quinn)
• 1976 North to Dakota (a Slocum western under the pseudonym Jake Logan)
• 1977 Ride for Revenge (a Slocum western - under the pseudonym Jake Logan)
• 1977 Nightwing
  • Wing of the Night, German by Gisela Stege; Ullstein, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Vienna 1979. ISBN 3-550-06301-6 .
• 1986 Stallion Gate
  • Los Alamos, German by Wulf Bergner; Scherz, Bern, Munich 1987. ISBN 3-502-10141-8 .
• 1986 Overture to Death
• 1996 Rose
  • The black rose, German by Kristian Lutze; Knaus, Munich 1996. ISBN 3-8135-0033-0 .
• 2002 December 6 (UK edition title: Tokyo Station )
  • Countdown, German by Reiner Pfleiderer; Bertelsmann, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-570-00466-X .
• 2016 `` The Girl from Venice ''
  • In the shadow of San Marco, German by Rainer Schmidt, C. Bertelsmann 2018. ISBN 978-3-570-10192-6 .

Film adaptations

• 1978: Swinging Fear ( Nightwing )
• 1983: Gorky Park

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Cruz Smith in the catalog of the German National Library
• Martin Cruz Smith in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Martin Cruz Smith at Open Library
• Martin Cruz Smith Official Website
• ARTE crime world
• Oliver Wieters, chaos as normal. Martin Cruz Smith crime thriller “The Golden Mile” (2010)