Paula Gosling

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Paula Gosling , born in Paula Osius , (born October 12, 1939 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American- British crime writer who has lived in England since 1964 . Occasionally she writes under the pseudonyms Ainslie Skinner and Holly Baxter .

Life

As the daughter of an inventor from Detroit, Paula Osius had amazed her teachers at Wayne State University in Detroit with her poetry skills . After graduating from university, she worked as a copywriter in a local advertising agency. Dissatisfied with the work there and looking for adventure and romance, she and a friend moved to England at the age of 25. In a London advertising agency she met her future husband Christopher Gosling , whom she married in 1968. The marriage produced two daughters, Abigail and Emelie. This period of time determined the basis of her writing: while her husband was working, Gosling felt underutilized and began to write herself. The very first novel, A Running Duck (dt. Killing is a lonely business) was a success and secured her 1978 award for the best first novel of the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA).

The marriage with Christopher Gosling divorced in 1977. In 1981 Paula Gosling married businessman John Hare , but continued to use the surname Gosling for her subsequent publications. Gosling lives in Bath in the west of England.

Paula Gosling is a member of the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA), where she was a board member from 1984 to 1990 and chairman of the CWA committee in 1988/1989. Many of her novels are available in German translation.

Awards / honors

Nominated 1988 for the Edgar Allan Poe Award - Category Best Short Story by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) for Mr. Felix .

A Running Duck is number 63 on the CWA's list of the 100 best crime novels of all time . Jo Ann Vicarel also honors the novel for 1978 in A Reader's Guide to the Police Procedural .

Likewise, there is The Zero Trap of the year 1979 in the list of 100 best crime novels of the 20th century Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA).

William F. Deeck's My One Hundred Best Mystery Books lists Hoodwink as the best detective novel for 1988.

Works

Jack Stryker series

  • 1985 Monkey Puzzle (German death on campus . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988, ISBN 3-499-42858-X )
  • 1989 Backlash (Ger. The police killer . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990, ISBN 3-499-42971-3 )
  • 2002 Ricochet

Luke Abbott series

  • 1986 The Wychford Murders (German Blood on the Stones . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988, ISBN 3-499-42826-1 )
  • 1991 Death Penalties (German nightmares . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993, ISBN 3-499-43070-3 )

Blackwater Bay series

  • 1992 The Body in Blackwater Bay (German corpse in paradise . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993, ISBN 3-499-43104-1 )
  • 1993 A Few Dying Words (German: The game gets serious . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 3-499-43195-5 )
  • 1995 The Dead of Winter (Ger. The corpse under the ice . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1997, ISBN 3-499-43254-4 )
  • 1998 Death and Shadows (Ger. Im Schatten der Toten . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-43340-0 )
  • 2000 Underneath Every Stone

Individual works (detective novels)

  • 1978 A Running Duck (Eng. Killing is a lonely business . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1980, ISBN 3-499-42533-5 )
  • 1979 The Zero Trap (Ger. The trap in the ice . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1981, ISBN 3-499-42572-6 )
  • 1980 Loser's Blues (German murder in concert . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982, ISBN 3-499-42602-1 )
  • 1983 The Woman in Red (German: The Lady in Red . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1984, ISBN 3-499-42681-1 )
  • 1988 Hoodwink (German. A real crook . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989, ISBN 3-499-42939-X )
  • 2004 Tears of the Dragon

Others

  • 1980 Mind's Eye (as Ainslie Skinner)

Short stories (selection)

  • 1987 Mr. Felix . In: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine , July 1987 issue
  • 1990 A Fete Worse Than Death . In: Tim Heald, CWA (Ed.): A Classic English Crime
  • 1991 The Perfect Alibi . In: HRF Keating (ed.): Crime Waves
  • 1997 killer . In: Philip Gardner, Neil Fuller (Eds.): Storyline: A Short Story Anthology

Movies

Web links

Notes / evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Susan Moody (Ed.): The Hatchards Crime Companion. 100 Top Crime Novels Selected by the Crime Writers' Association . Hatchard, London 1990
  2. ↑ cf. Jo Ann Vicarel: A Reader's Guide to the Police Procedural . Prentice Hall, London 1995
  3. ↑ cf. Jim Huang (Ed.): 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century: Selected by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association . Crum Creek Press, Carmel / Indiana 2000
  4. ↑ cf. Roger M. Sobin (Ed.): The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians . Poisened Pen Press, Scottsdale / Arizona 2007
  5. ↑ The occasional year given for the first publication 197 4 cannot be found in international library catalogs. It was then first published in 1978 by Macmillan, London.
  6. ↑ The US-American first edition appeared under the title Fair Game by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York 1978
  7. ↑ The American first edition was published under the title Solo Blues by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York 1981
  8. ↑ All US editions of this novel appeared under the pseudonym Holly Baxter
  9. ^ The US first edition was published under the title The Harrowing by Rawson & Wade, New York 1980
  10. ^ The City Cobra in the IMDb
  11. ↑ Fair Game in the IMDb
personal data
SURNAME Gosling, Paula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osius, Paula (maiden name); Skinner, Ainslie (pseudonym); Baxter, Holly (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-British writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan , United States