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Edward Grierson - Wikipedia

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Edward Grierson
Born	(1914-03-09)9 March 1914 Bedford
Died	24 May 1975(1975-05-24) (aged 61)
Occupation	Barrister, Justice of the Peace
Language	English
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Education	B.A. (honors) in jurisprudence, 1935
Alma mater	Exeter College, Oxford (1932-1935)
Genre	Crime fiction; history
Years active	1949–1975
Notable awards	Gold Dagger Award, 1956
Spouse	Helen D. Henderson (m. 1938)

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.

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, Doubleday (publisher), 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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