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Audrey Peterson


Born
in Los Angeles, The United States
January 01, 1921

Died
February 12, 2008

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


Audrey Peterson is the pen name of Audrey C. Buckland.

“Audrey Peterson fell in love with England when, as professor of English at California State University at Long Beach, she traveled there to pursue research for scholarly publication, so it is no surprise that all of her mystery novels are set in England.” Willetta L. Heising’s Detecting Women provides some more background on this respected novelist:

Her six-book series featuring music professor, Andrew Quentin, and his former graduate student, Jane Winfield, begins with The Nocturne Murder [1987]. The pair spends a lot of time in England and on the continent, places which Peterson often visits. She told Contemporary Authors that the music background allows her to incorporate a lifelong ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.54 · 792 ratings · 94 reviews · 20 distinct works
Dartmoor Burial
3.36 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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The Nocturne Murder
2.90 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions
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Death Too Soon
3.10 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
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Murder in Burgundy
3.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1989
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Death in Wessex
2.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions
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An Unmourned Death
2.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
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Elegy in a Country Graveyard
3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1990
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Murder In Stratford: As Tol...
2.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2005
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Lament for Christabel
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1991
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Deadly Rehearsal
3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1990
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Series by Audrey Peterson

The Nocturne Murder Death in Wessex Murder in Burgundy Deadly Rehearsal Elegy in a Country Graveyard Lament for Christabel
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Dartmoor Burial Death Too Soon Shroud for a Scholar
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