The Man Who Killed Himself by Julian Symons (1967 Popular Library pb, VG+)

Description: The Man Who Killed Himself by Julian Symons, Popular Library, NY, 1967, 141 pp.. Popular 02476. The first Joan Kahn-Harper Novel of Suspense. The book lies flat and square. Light rubbing to the back cover. Minor edge wear. Pages are tanned and free of any markings. Condition - Very Good Plus. 312341 Julian Symons(Julian Gustave Symons)(1912 - 1994) Julian Symons is primarily remembered as a master of the art of crime writing. However, in his eighty-two years he produced an enormously varied body of work. Social and military history, biography and criticism were all subjects he touched upon with remarkable success, and he held a distinguished reputation in each field. His novels were consistently highly individual and expertly crafted, raising him above other crime writers of his day. It is for this that he was awarded various prizes, and, in 1982, named as Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America - an honour accorded to only three other English writers before him: Graham Greene, Eric Ambler and Daphne Du Maurier. He succeeded Agatha Christie as the president of Britain's Detection Club, a position he held from 1976 to 1985, and in 1990 he was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Write Arthur Brownjohn has never quite got anything right. Whatever he does, it always seems to go more than a little awry. The same could be said for the murder of his wife - a bungled, inferior affair despite his having consulting all the experts in the field of killings, executions and dastardly deeds. Resolving never to repeat the same mistakes, he enlists the help of Major Easonby Mellon - a man who really knows what he's doing...

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