Edward Grierson

Edward Grierson (9 March 1914 - 24 May 1975) was a Northumberland barrister and a writer of crime novels. His debut crime novel is the outstanding Reputation for a Song, a classic inverted detective story. Grierson also wrote five novels, six works of non-fiction and two plays. He also wrote as Brian Crowther and John P. Stevenson.

Edward Grierson
Born(1914-03-09)March 9, 1914
Bedford
DiedMay 24, 1975(1975-05-24) (aged 61)
OccupationBarrister, Justice of the Peace
LanguageEnglish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
EducationB.A. (honors) in jurisprudence, 1935
Alma materExeter College, Oxford (1932-1935)
GenreCrime fiction; history
Notable awardsGold Dagger Award, 1956
Years active1949–1975
SpouseHelen D. Henderson (m. 1938)

Works

Crime novels
  • Shall Perish with the Sword (as Brian Crowther). London, Quality Press, 1949.
  • Reputation for a Song. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Knopf, 1952. See also the film My Lover, My Son
  • The Second Man. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Knopf, 1956. Gold Dagger Award (dramatised on television: 'The Second Man' on Playhouse 90 in 1959 - starred James Mason and Diana Wynyard)
  • The Massingham Affair. London, Chatto and Windus, 1962; New York, Doubleday, 1963.
  • A Crime of One's Own. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Putnam, 1967.
Novels
  • The Lilies and the Bees. London, Chatto and Windus, 1953; as The Hastening Wind, New York, Knopf, 1953; as The Royalist, New York, Bantam, 1956.
  • Far Morning. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Knopf, 1955.
  • The Captain General (as John P. Stevenson). New York, Doubleday, 1956; (as Edward Grierson), London, Chatto and Windus, 1958.
  • Dark Torrent of Glencoe. New York, Doubleday, 1960; London, Chatto and Windus, 1961.
Plays
  • His Mother's Son, with Raymond Lulham (produced Harrogate, Yorkshire, 1953).
  • Radio plays: The Ninth Legion, 1956; The Second Man, 1956; Mr. Curtis's Chambers, 1959.
Other
  • Storm Bird: The Strange Life of Georgina Weldon. London, Chatto and Windus, 1959.
  • The Fatal Inheritance: Philip II and the Spanish Netherlands. London, Gollancz, and New York, Doubleday, 1969.
  • The Imperial Dream: The British Commonwealth and the Empire 1775–1969. London, Collins, 1972; as The Death of the Imperial Dream, New York, Dobleday, 1972.
  • Confessions of a Country Magistrate, London, Gollancz, 1972.
  • King of the Two Worlds: Philip II of Spain. London, Collins, and New York, Putnam, 1974.
  • The Companion Guide to Northumbria. London, Collins, 1976.


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