Rob Reef

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Rob Reef at a reading in Berlin in May 2018

Rob Reef (* 1968 in Berlin ) is a German writer.

Life

Reef studied philosophy and literature at the Free University of Berlin . He initially worked for a Munich publisher and has been employed as a copywriter and consultant in a Berlin advertising agency since 2003. Reef has been writing classic detective novels in the tradition of British Whodunits since 2009 . For HarperCollins he writes alongside Martin Edwards and John Curren expert introductions to the new "The Detective Club" series. Under the pseudonym "W. Rönne ”he also works as a translator. Reef's main protagonist is literature professor John Wickham Stableford , who, together with his wife Harriet and sidekick Sir Perceval Holmes, likes to solve their cases near golf courses.

Rob Reef has been a member of the Syndikat , the authors' group of German-language crime literature, since 2015 .

Works

Death of a ghost. Dryas, Hamburg. 2019, ISBN 978-3-940855-99-2 .
The Ker Island riddle. Dryas, Frankfurt a. M. 2018, ISBN 978-3-940258-92-2 .
An impossible murder. Dryas, Frankfurt a. M. 2017, ISBN 978-3-940258-69-4 .
The secret of Benwick Castle. Dryas, Frankfurt a. M. 2016, ISBN 978-3-940258-60-1 .
Stableford. Dryas, Frankfurt a. M. 2016, ISBN 978-3-940258-67-0 .
Stableford on Golf. A Classic Mystery Novel. Tally-Ho !, Berlin 2013.
The secret of Benwick Castle. Tally-Ho !, Berlin 2013.
Stableford. Tally-Ho !, Berlin 2010.

Translations and introductions

Lynn Brock: The Deductions of Colonel Gore. HarperCollins, London 2018, ISBN 978-0-008283-00-1 .
Lynn Brock: Nightmare. HarperCollins, London 2017, ISBN 978-0-008137-77-9 .
Paul Rosenhayn: Eleven Adventures of Joe Jenkins. Tally-Ho !, Berlin 2012.
JS Fletcher: The Middle Temple Murder. Tally-Ho !, Berlin 2013.
Ronald A. Knox: The Murder on the Viaduct. Tally-Ho !, Berlin 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME	Reef, Rob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin