Timothy Holme

Timothy Holme (* 1928 in Great Britain , † 1987 in Italy ) was an English actor, journalist and writer.

Life

Immediately after leaving school, Holme went to the theater. Since after seven years as an actor there was still no resounding success, he gave up this job and began writing as a freelance journalist for various newspapers and magazines.

Holme went to Italy for a long time to learn the language there. A short time later he married his language teacher and settled with her near Verona .

reception

The biography Goldoni convinced on their appearance audience as well as the official criticism and is often quoted to this day. In addition, his cycle of detective novels around the protagonist "Achille Peroni" is most likely to be mentioned. His plays survived very few, if any, performances.

Works (selection)

author

Detective novels

• The Neapolitan Streak . Macmillan, London 1980, ISBN 0-333-27843-7 .
  • German translation: Death in Verona . Dumont, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7701-2425-1 .
• A funeral of gondolas . Macmillan, London 1981, ISBN 0-333-31838-2 .
  • German translation: Venetian burial . Dumont, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7701-4590-9 .
• The Devil and the dolce vita . Macmillan, London 1982, ISBN 0-333-34163-5 .
  • German translation: Satan and the Dolce Vita . Dumont, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7701-2456-1 .
• The Assisi Murders . Macmillan, London 1985, ISBN 0-333-38493-8 .
  • German translation: Murder in Assisi . Dumont, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-7701-2454-5 .
• At the lake of sudden death . Macmillan, London 1989, ISBN 0-333-43222-3 .
  • German translation: The lake of sudden death . Dumont, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-7701-2455-3 .

Plays

• Tall story. A comedy in three acts . Evans, London 1957 (with Stanford Holme).

Non-fiction

• A servant of many masters. The life and times of Carlo Goldoni . Jupiter Books, London 1976, ISBN 0-904041-61-1 .
• "Vile Florentines". The Florence of Dante , Giotto and Boccaccio . Cassell, London 1980, ISBN 0-304-30323-2 .
• Sardinia . Cape Books, London 1967 (with Bianca Holme).
• Trip to Rome . Longman, London 1980, ISBN 0-582-20063-6 (with Philippa Davidson).
• Survive in Italia . Longman, London 1980, ISBN 0-582-74710-4 .

editor

• The Italian reader . Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1976, ISBN 0-14-003654-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} also available as an audio book in German
2. ↑ former title: The Last Regatta (1997) and Murder in Venice (1987).

Web links

• Short biography of Timothy Holme
• Timothy Holme at the Crime Couch