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Derek Lambert


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
October 10, 1929

Died
April 10, 2001

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Derek Lambert was educated at Epsom College and was both an author of thrillers in his own name, writing also as Richard Falkirk, and a journalist. As a foreign correspondent for the Daily Express, he spent time in many exotic locales that he later used as settings in his novels.

In addition to his steady stream of thrillers, Lambert also published (under the pseudonym Richard Falkirk) a series about a Bow Street Runner called Edmund Blackstone. These, the fruit of research in the London Library, were interspersed with detailed descriptions of early 19th century low life, as the hero undertook such tasks as saving Princess Victoria from being kidnapped, or penetrating skullduggery at the Bank of England.

Lambert made no claims for his books,
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The Judas Code

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The Man Who Was Saturday

3.41 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1985 — 9 editions
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Blackstone's Fancy (Blackst...

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I, Said the Spy

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The Golden Express

3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions
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Vendetta: A Novel

3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions
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The Red Dove

3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1900 — 12 editions
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Touch the lion's paw

3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1975 — 7 editions
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“I liked him because, during my years as a journalist, i had discovered that a peck of delinquency is sometimes more worthy than a pitcher of piety.”
Derek Lambert, Spanish Lessons: Beginning a New Life in Spain
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