Paul Doherty

Paul Charles Doherty , OBE (born September 21, 1946 ) in Middlesbrough is an English writer and teacher.

Life

He completed his school days in a Catholic boarding school. He then worked with little success as a garbage collector, street sweeper, bus driver, waiter and servant.

Then he wanted to become a priest, but rejected it after three years and then studied history in Liverpool and Oxford , where he also met his wife, Carla, an American. After graduation, he taught in Berkshire , Nottinghamshire and West Sussex and was named director of Trinity Catholic High School in 1981. Doherty published medieval thrillers both under his real name and under the pseudonyms Paul Harding, Michael Clynes, Celia L. Grace, Ann Dukthas and Anna Apostolou.

Paul Doherty has six children. He lives in London with his family .

Publications

Almost all of his books are set between the 13th and 15th centuries. Almost all of the murders described in his books actually took place. He gets the information for his novels from medieval files and court records, to which he has easy access as a history professor. In recognition of his previous literary life's work, he received the Herodotus Award from the US American The Historical Mystery Appreciation Society (HMAS) in 2000 .

The serial heroes of his crime novels, published under the name Paul Harding, are Brother Athelstan, a Dominican brother , and John Cranston, an examining magistrate in London in the 14th century; the second row focuses on the spy Hugh Corbett.

Partly as Paul Harding

The John Cranston and Brother Athelstan series (in the original: The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan ): The first seven volumes appeared under the pseudonym Paul Harding, the rest under his real name.

When Droemer Knaur publishing house the currently last edition appeared the German editions of the series with John Cranston and Brother Athelstan (volumes one through nine), as well as the series with Hugh Corbett (volumes five to ten) in a uniform cover design all under the pseudonym Paul Harding .

• The Nightingale Gallery (dt .: The Gallery of Nightingales ), 1991
• The House Of The Red Slayer (dt .: The house red butcher ), 1992
• Murder Most Holy (Eng .: Sacristy of Death ), 1993
• The Anger Of God (dt .: The wrath of God ), 1993
• By Murder's Bright Light (Eng .: Death on the Thames ), 1994
• The House Of Crows (Eng .: Parliament of the Dead ), 1995
• The Assassin's Riddle (Eng .: Deadly Riddle ), 1996
• The Devil's Domain (dt .: In the kingdom of the devil ), 1998
• The Field Of Blood (dt .: Field of Blood ), 1999
• The House of Shadows (2003)
• Bloodstone (2011)
• The Straw Men (2012)
• Candle Flame (2014)
• The Book of Fires (2014)
• The Herald of Hell (2015)
• The Great Revolt (2016)
• A Pilgrimage to Murder (2016)

The Hugh Corbett series: (only volumes 5–10 of the 18-volume series have so far been translated into German)

• Satan in St Mary’s (1986)
• The Crown in Darkness (1988)
• Spy in Chancery (1988)
• The Angel of Death (1989)
• The Prince Of Darkness (1992) (dt .: The Prince of Darkness )
• Murder Wears a Cowl (1992) (dt .: The hooded killers )
• The Assassin in the Greenwood (1993) (dt .: The killer of Greenwood )
• The Song of a Dark Angel (1994) (German: The Song of the Dark Angel )
• Satan's Fire (1995) (German: The Heat of Hell )
• The Devil's Hunt (1996) (dt .: Devil Hunt )
• The Demon Archer (1999)
• The Treason of the Ghosts (2000)
• Corpse Candle (2001)
• The Magician's Death (2004)
• The Waxman Murders (2006)
• Nightshade (2008)
• The Mysterium (2010)
• The Peacock's Cry (2016) (short story)
• Dark Serpent (2016)

As Michael Clynes

• Under the Sign of the White Rose , 1991
• The Murders of the Holy Grail , 1993
• The Mystery of the Poisoned Chalice , 1994
• The Florence Conspiracy , 1995
• The Secret of the Lost Princes , 1996
• The Relic Murders , 1997

The sixth part was not translated and published in Germany, although the series about the protagonist Sir Roger Shallot, who plays King Henry VIII at the time, would be concluded and complete.

As Celia L. Grace

• A Shrine of Murders (1993), The Canterbury Healer , 1994
• The Canterbury Healer Seeks God's Eye , 1995 (The Eye of God (1994))
• The Canterbury Healer and the Goblet of Death , 1996 (The Merchant of Death (1995))
• The Canterbury Healer and the Book of the Witcher , 1997 (The Book of Shadows (1996))
• The Canterbury Healer and the Brotherhood of Death , 2002 (Saintly Murders (2001))
• A Maze of Murders (2002) : The Canterbury Healer: The Labyrinth of Murders
• The Canterbury Healer: A Feast of Poisons (2004)

As Anna Apostolou

• A Murder in Macedon , 1997
• A Murder in Thebes , 1998

As Ann Dukthas

• Maria Stuart's Dark Secret, 1994
• Marie Antoinette's Oath, 1994
• The Curse of Mary Tudor, 1998
• The Mayerling Mystery, 1998

As PC Doherty

The Canterbury Pilgrim Series:

• The legend of the devil cult, 1994
• King of Beggars, 1995

The Egypt crime novels:

• The Mask of Ra, 1999
• The Revenge of Horus, 2000
• The Curse of Anubis, 2001
• The Warriors of Seth, 2002

The Telamon crime novels at the time of Alexander the Great:

• The Curse of Athena, 2002
• The Legacy of Heracles, 2004
• The Gates of Hell, 2003 (apparently only in English so far)

Thrillers from the time of Constantine the Great:

• The dead courtesans of the emperor, 2004
• The emperor's gladiator, 2006

Other works:

• The Fallen Angel, 2000
• The girl and the priest, 2002

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Doherty in the catalog of the German National Library

• Author's web presence