Thurman Warriner

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Thurman Warriner (* 1904 ; † 1974 ) was an English writer.

Life

Warriner appeared in the theater as a child or as a teenager. However, he did not want to make this his profession and was successful in a wide variety of professions; u. a. he worked for a long time on a poultry farm and was also a projectionist. At the beginning of World War II Warriner enlisted in the Royal Air Force and worked there. a. as a mechanic.

After the war ended, Warriner left the army and set up as a freelance writer in 1950. He wrote almost exclusively detective novels and published them in addition to his own name under the pseudonym Simon Troy . He chose Inspector Smith as the protagonist, who is the main character in almost all novels.

Works (selection)

under the name Thurman Warriner
  • Death's bright angel . Hodder & Stoughton, London 1956.
  • Death's dateless night . Hodder & Stoughton, London 1952.
  • The doors of sleep . Penguin Books, Baltimore, Ml. 1961.
  • Ducats in her coffin . Hodder & Stoughton, London 1951.
  • The golden lantern . Hodder & Stoughton, London 1958.
  • Heavenly bodies . Hodder & Stoughton, London 1960.
  • She died of course . Hodder & Stoughton, London 1958.
  • The perfect crime. Detective novel ("Method in his murder"). Herbig-Verlag, Berlin 1955 (non-stop library; 3).
under the pseudonym Simon Troy
  • Guest of Satan. Detective novel ("Sup with the devil"). Desch, Munich 1968 (The Midnight Books; 393).
  • Blind man's garden . Gollancz, London 1970.
  • Don't play with the rough boys . Macmillan, New York 1963.
  • Drunkard's end . Walker Press, New York 1960.
  • Invitation to murder. Detective novel ("Halfway to murder"). List, Munich 1961.
  • Flee if you can. Detective novel ("Cease upon midnight"). Desch, Munich 1967 (The Midnight Books; 328).
  • No more a-roving . Gollancz, London 1965.
  • Second cousin removed . Macmillan, New York 1962.
  • Swift to its close . Garland Books, New York 1975, ISBN 0-8240-4950-0 (reprinted from New York 1969 edition).
  • Waiting for Oliver. Detective novel ("Waiting for Oliver"). Desch, Munich 1966 (The Midnight Books; 310).

literature

  • Armin Arnold (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010278-2 , p. 334.

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personal data
SURNAME Warriner, Thurman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1904
DATE OF DEATH 1974