Walter Satterthwait
Walter Satterthwait (born March 23, 1946 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † February 26, 2020 ) was an American crime novelist.
Satterthwait was a world-traveled author who had tried his hand at several professions before he managed to get his novels into a publisher. His novels, which are set in a variety of locations, also benefited from this. B. in Kenya, Germany, France and Santa Fe (New Mexico), where he mainly lived.
In addition to the fictional detectives, of whom there are two series, real people appear again and again in his books, such as B. Oscar Wilde ( Oscar Wilde in the Wild West ), Lizzie Borden ( Miss Lizzie ), Gertrude Stein , Ernest Hemingway ( masquerades ), Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini ( escapades ) and numerous other personalities of the 20s of the 20th century in the series with the Pinkerton detectives Beaumont & Turner.
Bibliography (selection)
Joshua Croft series
- Wall of glass ( Wall of Glass , 1987)
- With the dead in peace ( At Ease With the Dead , 1990)
- A flower in the desert ( A Flower in the Desert , 1992)
- The Hanged Man ( The Hanged Man , 1993)
- Ans Dark accustomed ( Accustomed to the Dark , 1996)
Phil Beaumont & Jane Turner
- Escapades ( Escapade , 1995)
- Masquerades ( Masquerade , 1998)
- Charades ( Cavalcade , 2005)
other books
- Miss Lizzie ( Miss Lizzie , 1989)
- Miss Lizzie returns
- Oscar Wilde in the Wild West ( Wilde West , 1991)
- The gold of Mayani ( The Gold of Mayani , 1995, stories)
- Paper cuts ( Perfection , 2001)
- Dead Horse , 2007
Radio play adaptations
- Miss Lizzie . Two-part radio play with Adela Florow, Kornelia Boje , Angela Schmid, Cornelia Froboess , Michael König , Doris Schade , Paul Herwig , Christian Berkel , Walter Renneisen , Thomas Holtzmann , Peter Pius Irl , Werner Haindl , Elisabeth Endriss , Margit Carls, Jochen Striebeck , Christoph Lindert, Stefanie Kutzer u. a. From the American by Ursula-Maria Mössner. Editing and direction: Irene Schuck . Bavarian Broadcasting 1998.
- Oscar Wilde in the Wild West . Two-part radio play with Bodo Primus , Oliver Reinhard, Horst Sachtleben , Rita Russek , Mogens von Gadow , Helmut Stange, Jochen Striebeck , Jan Gebauer, Frauke Poolmann, Roland Bayer, Barbara Boschan, Holger Buck, Burchard Dabinnus, Gernot Duda , Markus Fennert, Michael Habeck , Verena Lercher, Harry Täschner, Ursula van der Wielen, Jens Wawrczeck u. a. Translated from the English by Gunnar Kwisinski. Composition: Wolfgang Florey, Ralf Schmid. Editing and direction: Irene Schuck . Bavarian Broadcasting 2000.
Awards
- 1996: Prix du Roman d'Aventures for escapades
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Satterthwait in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview at caliber .38
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Satterthwait. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Satterthwait, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American crime writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 2020 |