A Three Pipe Problem - Hardcover

Symons, Julian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002313782 ISBN 13: 9780002313780

Publisher: Collins for the Crime Club, 1975

Synopsis

Small-time actor, Sheridan Haynes, had a rather unhealthy preoccupation with Sherlock Holmes. So when the chance came for him to play the famous detective in a TV series, it seemed his dreams had come true. And when London was plagued by a series of unsolved murders, well it seemed only natural for him to take his role into real life. Was this a case of a laughable and misguided actor, or was Sheridan actually on to something?

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Review

'Mr Symons has never done anything so wholly delightful', Sunday Times

Mr Symons has never done anything so wholly delightful.--Sunday Times

About the Author

Julian Symons is primarily remembered as a master of the art of crime writing. However, in his eighty-two years he produced an enormously varied body of work. Social and military history, biography and criticism were all subjects he touched upon with remarkable success, and he held a distinguished reputation in each field. His novels were consistently highly individual and expertly crafted, raising him above other crime writers of his day. It is for this that he was awarded various prizes, and, in 1982, named as Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America an honour accorded to only three other English writers before him: Graham Greene, Eric Ambler and Daphne Du Maurier. He succeeded Agatha Christie as the president of Britain s Detection Club, a position he held from 1976 to 1985, and in 1990 he was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers for his lifetime s achievement in crime fiction. Symons died in 1994."

Edition details

• Publisher: Collins for the Crime Club
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002313782
• ISBN 13: 9780002313780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224