Rennie Airth

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Rennie George Airth (born in South Africa in 1935 ) is a South African writer.

Airth worked as a foreign correspondent for the Reuters news agency before he became known from 1999 - after two less well-known novels in 1969 and 1981 - for a trilogy of crime novels set between 1921 and 1944 about Detective Inspector John Madden of Scotland Yard . The first volume in the trilogy, River of Darkness , was nominated for four prizes in 2000, including the Anthony Award and the Edgar , and received the most prestigious French crime prize, the Grand prix de littérature policière . Regardless of Airth's original intention to create a trilogy, other volumes have appeared on Detective Inspector John Madden.

Airth lives and works in Italy (as of autumn 2019).

Awards

Works

  • Snatch! (1969)
    • German: The snap. Roman , Molden, Vienna-Munich-Zurich 1970
  • Once A Spy (1981)

John Madden series

  • River of Darkness (1999)
  • The Blood-Dimmed Tide (2003)
  • The Dead of Winter (2009)
  • The Reckoning (2014)
  • The Death of Kings (2017)
  • The Decent Inn of Death (2020) - ISBN 9780143134299

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Rennie Airth on www.fantasticfiction.co.uk