Phil Lecomber

PHIL LECOMBER was born in Slade Green, on the outskirts of south-east London. He has been married to his wife, Susie, for thirty-six years, and they have two adult children. Now living in Bath, he spent most of his working life in the capital. His career has included work as a musician in the city’s clubs and pubs, a steel-fixer on the towering edifices of the Square Mile, and a designer of stained-glass windows. For thirty-five years he worked in Mayfair at the internationally renowned auction house Sotheby’s, overseeing electronic security for some of the world’s most valuable works of art.

All of which, of course, has provided wonderful material for a novelist’s inspiration.

Always an avid reader, a chance encounter as a teenager with a Gerald Kersh short story led to a fascination with the ‘Morbid Age’­—the years between the wars. The world that Phil has created for the Piccadilly Noir series is the result of the consumption and distillation of myriad contemporary novels, films, historical accounts, biographies and slang dictionaries of the 1920/30s—with a nod here and there to some of the real-life colourful characters that he’s had the pleasure of rubbing shoulders with over the years.

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