DG Penny

DG Penny is the alter-ego of David Penny, used when he writes contemporary crime novels as opposed to Historical Mysteries.

He was first published in his 20s, with four novels and several short stories appearing during the 1970s. He enjoyed a dissipated and wasteful (but not wasted) youth, doing little other than writing, growing his hair (a pursuit sadly no longer available to him) and following an alternative lifestyle. In his late twenties, real life intruded into this blissful state of affairs and in order not to starve he sought paid employment. After a number of jobs – including melting old lead type in a print works and storeman in a frozen food warehouse where he worked for eight hours a day in minus 18 degrees – David managed to find a real job. But he never forgot he was really a writer, and has now returned to his first love with the Thomas Berrington Historical Mysteries set in Moorish Spain and Tudor England in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. He also writes short stories under the DG Penny pen name. His most recent appears in An Unnecessary Assassin, a book produced in aid of a charity to help eradicate polio.