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Robert Barnard (23 November 1936 – 19 September 2013) was an English crime writer, critic and lecturer. [1] In addition to over 40 books published under his own name, he also published four books under the pseudonym Bernard Bastable .
Pages in category "Books by Robert Barnard" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
1974, Pan Books, paperback, 221 pp 1978, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, hardcover, 410 pp ISBN 0-7089-0189-1 In the UK the novel was first serialised in the weekly magazine John Bull in eight abridged instalments from 13 January (Volume 89, Number 2324) to 3 March 1951 (Volume 89, Number 2331) with illustrations by "Showell". [ 7 ]
The book garnered positive reviews upon release. [2] Publishers Weekly praised it as "elegant", observing "Barnard brilliantly depicts a seedy, struggling London in the '50s, the Suez fiasco as a symbol of the death of empire and Timothy's murder as a symbol of a wholly different social climate", [3] while Kirkus Reviews deemed it "quietly engrossing" throughout. [4]
Death by Sheer Torture (1981), also known simply as Sheer Torture, is a mystery novel by English writer Robert Barnard, [1] the first of five novels, penned in the 1980s, featuring his recurring detective character Perry Trethowan.
Robert Barnard: "Super-complicated early whodunit, set in the northerly fringes of France so beloved of the English bankrupt. Poirot pits his wits against a sneering sophisticate of a French policeman while Hastings lets his wander after an auburn-haired female acrobat.
The English crime writer and critic Robert Barnard, in A Talent to Deceive: An appreciation of Agatha Christie, wrote that this novel is "Apart—and it is an enormous 'apart'—from the sensational solution, this is a fairly conventional Christie." He concluded that this is "A classic, but there are some better [novels by] Christie."
1966, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 221 pp 1969, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 417 pp ISBN 0-85456-666-X The novel was first serialised in the UK weekly magazine Woman's Own in six abridged instalments from 9 November – 14 December 1963 with illustrations by Herb Tauss.