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Name
  
Edward Grierson

Role
  
Writer


Died
  
1975

Movies
  
My Lover, My Son

Books
  
Reputation for a Song, The second man

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Edward Grierson (9 March 1914 - 1975) was a Northumberland barrister and a writer of crime novels. His debut crime novel is the outstanding Reputation for a Song, a classic Inverted detective story. Grierson also wrote five novels, six works of non-fiction and two plays. He also wrote as Brian Crowther and John P Peterson.

Selected works

  • Reputation for a Song (1952) — see also the film My Lover My Son
  • The Hastening Wind (1953) - also published as Royalist by Bantam in 1956
  • The Second Man (1956); Gold Dagger Award (dramatised on television: 'The Second Man' on Playhouse 90 in 1959 - starred James Mason and Diana Wynyard)
  • The Massingham Affair (1962)
  • A Crime of One's Own (1967)
  • Confessions of a Country Magistrate (1972)

    • References

    Edward Grierson Wikipedia
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