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Norman Russell


Born
The United Kingdom
Genre
Mystery, Nonfiction


Hello, reader! I hope that all's well with you. I am a graduate of Oxford and London universities, with the degrees of MA and PhD respectively. I served abroad in several regiments of the British Army before training as a teacher, and spending a very happy 26 years as Head of English in a comprehensive school in Liverpool UK. After accepting early retirement, I began a new career as an author, and to date I have had twenty novels published. My current publisher is the brilliant Joffe Books, who have just published the first of my Oldminster series of detective novels - more to follow!

My fiction leans towards the 'cosy' genre, though there are plenty of thrills and cunning plots to be found. I like to produce rounded characters who exist in ...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 6,252 ratings · 302 reviews · 80 distinct works • Similar authors
An Invitation to Murder (Th...
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An Antique Murder (The Oldm...
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The Secret of Bagnett Hall ...
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No Choice but Murder (The O...
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Death at the Altar (The Old...
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The Oldminster Murder Myste...
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The Oldminster Mysteries: B...
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The Advocate's Wife (Inspec...
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Metaphysics As a Personal A...
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Series by Norman Russell

An Invitation to Murder An Antique Murder The Secret of Bagnett Hall No Choice but Murder Death at the Altar
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An Oxford Tragedy An Oxford Anomaly An Oxford Scandal
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“Smoking Kills’, it said on the packet. Yes, but not yet.”
― Norman Russell, The Secret of Bagnett Hall
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“Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”
― Norman Russell, An Invitation to Murder
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“our gain in weight has been matched by an increase in wisdom.”
― Norman Russell, An Antique Murder
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