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Gavin Lyall

Born

in Birmingham, The United Kingdom

May 09, 1932

Died

January 18, 2003

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Fiction

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Gavin was born and educated in Birmingham. For two years he served as a RAF pilot before going up to Cambridge, where he edited Varsity, the university newspaper. After working for Picture Post, the Sunday Graphic and the BBC, he began his first novel, The Wrong Side of the Sky, published in 1961. After four years as Air Correspondent to the Sunday Times, he resigned to write books full time. He was married to the well-known journalist Katherine Whitehorn and they lived in London with their children.

Lyall won the British Crime Writers' Association's Silver Dagger award in both 1964 and 1965. In 1966-67 he was Chairman of the British Crime Writers Association. He was not a prolific author, attributing his slow pace to obsession with technic ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 5,129 ratings · 239 reviews · 67 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Secret Servant: A Gripping Spy Action Crime Thriller From a Master of the Spy Novel (Harry Maxim Spy Thrillers Book 1) 3.98 avg rating — 812 ratings — published 1980 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wrong Side of the Sky 4.15 avg rating — 475 ratings — published 1961 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Conduct of Major Maxim (Harry Maxim #2) 4.21 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 1982 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Most Dangerous Game 4.11 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 1964 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crocus List (Harry Maxim Spy #3) 4.12 avg rating — 396 ratings — published 1986 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncle Target: A Gripping Spy Action Crime Thriller from a Master of the Spy Novel (Harry Maxim Spy Thrillers Book 4) 4.16 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 1988 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shooting Script 4.08 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 1966 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spy's Honour (Captain Matthew Ranklin #1) 3.91 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 1993 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midnight Plus One 3.99 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 1965 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flight From Honour (Captain Matthew Ranklin #2) 4.09 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Harry Maxim (4 books)
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Honour (4 books)
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“You never know about the deaths you didn't die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn't happen. It's a warm, cosy feeling. It's the way the airlines fly.”
― Gavin Lyall, The Most Dangerous Game

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“The whole damn thing started when they gave women the vote.”
― Gavin Lyall, The Most Dangerous Game

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“I mean, any film producer would have snapped him up as the noble young Wehrmacht officer who gets shocked by what the SS is up to but soldiers loyally on until he stops a burst from a tommy-gun in the stomach—it’s always the stomach—and dies nastily. Very moral. And maybe it really would have happened to Paulus if he hadn’t missed the war by a good ten years.”
― Gavin Lyall, Venus With Pistol

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