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Robert Barnard


Born
in Essex, The United Kingdom
November 23, 1936

Died
September 19, 2013

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


Aka Bernard Bastable.

Robert Barnard (born 23 November 1936) was an English crime writer, critic and lecturer.

Born in Essex, Barnard was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Colchester and at Balliol College in Oxford. His first crime novel, A Little Local Murder, was published in 1976. The novel was written while he was a lecturer at University of Tromsø in Norway. He has gone on to write more than 40 other books and numerous short stories.

Barnard has said that his favourite crime writer is Agatha Christie. In 1980 he published a critique of her work titled A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie.

Barnard was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2003 by the Crime Writers Association for a lifetime of achievement.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 24,767 ratings · 2,973 reviews · 205 distinct works • Similar authors
Death of A Mystery Writer
3.68 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 1979 — 25 editions
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Corpse In A Gilded Cage
3.64 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 1984 — 22 editions
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Out of the Blackout
3.71 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 1985 — 24 editions
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The Case of the Missing Bro...
3.36 avg rating — 396 ratings — published 1983 — 27 editions
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The Bones In The Attic (Cha...
3.44 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 2002 — 19 editions
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Death By Sheer Torture (Per...
3.69 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 1981 — 23 editions
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Death and the Chaste Appren...
3.55 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 1989 — 20 editions
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Skeleton in the Grass
3.66 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 1988 — 24 editions
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A Scandal in Belgravia (Joh...
3.78 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 1991 — 21 editions
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A Little Local Murder
3.59 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 1976 — 18 editions
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Series by Robert Barnard

Death and the Chaste Appren... A Fatal Attachment A Hovering Of Vultures The Bad Samaritan No Place Of Safety The Corpse At The Haworth T... Unholy Dying
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Death By Sheer Torture Death And The Princess The Case of the Missing Brontë Bodies The Cherry Blossom Corpse
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Death of A Mystery Writer At Death's Door
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3.64 avg rating — 507 ratings

Political Suicide A Scandal in Belgravia
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“(there is no one, but no one, more gullible than a psychiatrist),”
― Robert Barnard, Death by Sheer Torture
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“Flowers, like cats, were too involved in their own intricate magnificence to minister to her self-love.”
― Robert Barnard, Death of A Perfect Mother
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“He idled, noting the decorations for Christmas in the shops and the Christmas trees oddly decorated with the Norwegian flag, as if Christ had been born in a stable near Oslo.”
― Robert Barnard, Death in a Cold Climate
tags: humor, scandinavia
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