Martin Fido

Martin Fido (born October 18, 1939 in Penzance ; † April 2, 2019 ) was a British university lecturer and author . In his works he was mainly concerned with the history of crime in the United Kingdom.

Live and act

After studying English at Balliol College at the University of Oxford , he taught English at the Universities of Leeds and Michigan from 1966 to 1972 . In 1973 he became Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of the West Indies in Barbados before returning to England in 1983. At the London radio station LBC Radio , he presented the weekly program Murder After Midnight for 20 years , which was also distributed on cassette and CD.

Fido wrote biographies on famous people like Charles Dickens , Oscar Wilde , William Shakespeare and the fictional character Sherlock Holmes . Along with Paul Begg and Keith Skinner published Fido bestseller The complete Jack the Ripper A to Z . From 2001 he taught at Boston University .

Works (selection)

• Charles Dickens. An authentic account of his life and times. Hamyln, Feltham 1973 and 1985. ISBN 978-0-600-36922-6
• Murder guide to London. Grafton, London 1987. ISBN 978-0-586-07179-3
• Murders after midnight. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London 1990. ISBN 978-0-297-81054-4
• The World of Sherlock Holmes. The Greatest Detective and his Era. Adams Media Corporation, London 1998. ISBN 978-1-580-62046-8
• The official encyclopedia of Scotland Yard. Virgin, London 1999 and 2000 (with Keith Skinner). ISBN 978-1-852-27712-3
• The complete Jack the Ripper A to Z. John Blake, London 2010 (with Paul Begg and Keith Skinner). ISBN 978-1-844-54797-5

Web links

• Martin Fido on Boston University website , accessed September 12, 2014