Adrian Wright

Adrian's most recent fiction is THE VOICE OF DOOM, the first in a series about Francis and Gordon Jones, two adolescent boys who solve mysteries in 1950s Norfolk. THE BOOKHOUND

called it 'Brilliantly funny ... Deliciously wicked and thoroughly enjoyable'.

His acclaimed biographies include the life of L P Hartley, FOREIGN COUNTRY; JOHN LEHMANN: A PAGAN ADVENTURE and his life of William Alwyn,THE INNUMERABLE DANCE. His novel MAROON reminded more than one critic of L P Hartley; perhaps not surprising as Hartley inspired Wright at the beginning of his writing career.

Wright is an acknowledged authority on musical theatre. The American critic Steven Suskin has written 'When I want to know something about British musical theatre - I turn to Wright'. WEST END BROADWAY and A TANNER'S WORTH OF TUNE won outstanding reviews in the Spectator, TLS and Stage. One reviewer on Amazon described Wright as 'delightfully opinionated' - an opinion he completely agrees with!

THE VOICE OF DOOM marks a new stage in Wright's fiction. With the sometimes dubious assistance of Mrs Jones, Francis's corset-making mother, the Reverend Challis, the village grandee Lady Darting, the striptease artiste Bunty Rogers and a host of splendid characters, Francis and Gordon solve perplexing mysteries. What is happening at St Mildred's School for the Advancement of Deserving Girls? Why are Francis and Gordon embroiled in a striptease show where the girls mustn't move, and how will they solve the affair of the priceless Pearl of Thalia? And surely the unlucky woman seeking the boys' assistance cannot be the Mrs Hudson of Sherlock Holmes fame? We even meet an older Francis, revisiting his childhood following the death of a remarkable woman whose passing reveals a long held secret. The local constabulary may be scratching their heads, but Francis and Gordon (providing they are not bird-watching, brass-rubbing, reading the Eagle, or tinkering with their Meccano) are on the case!