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Andrew Garve


Born
in Leicester, The United Kingdom
February 12, 1908

Died
January 01, 2001

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


AKA: Paul Somers, Roger Bax

Andrew Garve was the pen name of Paul Winterton (1908-2001). He was born in Leicester and educated at the Hulme Grammar School, Manchester and Purley County School, Surrey, after which he took a degree in Economics at London University. He was on the staff of The Economist for four years, and then worked for fourteen years for the London News Chronicle as reporter, leader writer and foreign correspondent. He was assigned to Moscow from 1942 to 1945, where he was also the correspondent of the BBC’s Overseas Service.

After the war he turned to full-time writing of detective and adventure novels and produced more than forty-five books. His work was serialized, televised, broadcast, filmed and translated into some twen ...more

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Average rating: 3.65 · 884 ratings · 183 reviews · 138 distinct works • Similar authors
No Tears for Hilda
3.55 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1950 — 16 editions
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Death and the Sky Above
3.59 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1953 — 13 editions
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Ashes of Loda
4.06 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1965 — 17 editions
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Hide and Go Seek
3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1966 — 8 editions
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Murder in Moscow (Black Dag...
3.53 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1954 — 18 editions
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The Galloway Case
3.47 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1958 — 5 editions
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A Hero For Leanda
3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1959 — 21 editions
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A Very Quiet Place
3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1967 — 16 editions
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Home To Roost
3.55 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1976 — 13 editions
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The Cuckoo Line Affair
3.37 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1953 — 16 editions
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“Maybe with a little more danger ― but there's more to life than just trying to exist.”
― Andrew Garve, The Late Bill Smith
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“The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth have been set on edge.”
― Andrew Garve, The Late Bill Smith
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“What's the point of a good job if you're dead?”
― Andrew Garve, The Late Bill Smith
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