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Peter Lovesey
Peter Lovesey has published 42 novels and six collections of short stories since he joined the CWA in 1969. His work has been adapted for radio, TV and film and is translated into over 20 languages. His first novel, Wobble to Death, won the Macmillan/Panther first crime novel prize of £1000 and featured Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian policeman, the first of an eight-book series that was televised by Granada in 1979-80, starring Alan Dobie as Cribb.
He has written three other series, one featuring Bertie, the Prince of Wales, as an inept amateur sleuth, and two with modern police: Hen Mallin, a female Chief Inspector, and Peter Diamond, a detective superintendent with Bath CID. The long-running Diamond series has won two Silver Daggers and a number of American awards, including the Anthony, the Barry and the Macavity.
Peter won the Silver Dagger for Waxwork in 1978 and the Gold Dagger for The False Inspector Dew in 1982 and in 2000 he was honoured by the CWA with the Cartier Diamond Dagger. In 2018 the Mystery Writers of America made him a Grand Master. He is also a Grand Master of the Swedish Academy of Detection and a winner of the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He was Chair of the CWA in 1991-2. His son Phil is also a crime writer and both father and son have won the CWA short story dagger.
CWA Awards
- CWA Gold Dagger – Shortlisted
- CWA Diamond Dagger Winner
- CWA Short Story Dagger - Winner
- CWA Silver Dagger – Winner
- CWA Gold Dagger - Winner
Other Awards
Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement, 2019; Magna Cum Murder International Guest of Honor, 2018; Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, 2018; The Strand Critics Lifetime Achievement, 2014; Swedish Academy of Detection Grand Master, 2010; Macavity Award, 2003 & 1996; Bouchercon International Guest of Honor, 2001; Malice Domestic Guest of Honor, 1996; Mystery Masters Guest of Honor, 1996; Barry Award, 1996; Mystery Writers of America Golden Mysteries Prize, 1995; Ellery Queen Readers Award, 1991; Anthony Award, 1991; Veuve Clicquot Award, 1991; Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, 1976; Prix du Roman d’Aventures, 1975; Macmillan/Panther First Crime Novel Prize, 1970.
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Books by Peter Lovesey
Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories
Diamond and the Eye
The Finisher
Killing with Confetti
Beau Death
Another One Goes Tonight
Down Among the Dead Men
The Stone Wife
The Tooth Tattoo
Cop to Corpse
Stagestruck
Skeleton Hill
Murder on the Short List
The Headhunters
The Secret Hangman
The Circle
The House Sitter
Diamond Dust
Dead Gorgeous
In Suspense
The Sedgemoor Strangler & Other Stories of Crime
The Secret of Spandau
The Reaper
The Vault
Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose
Upon a Dark Night
Bloodhounds
The Summons
The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown & Other Stories
Bertie and the Crime of Passion
Diamond Solitaire
The Last Detective
Bertie and the Seven Bodies
Bertie and the Tinman
Rough Cider
Butchers & Other Stories of Crime
Keystone
The False Inspector Dew
Waxwork
Swing, Swing Together
A Case of Spirits
Invitation to a Dynamite Party
Mad Hatter’s Holiday
Abracadaver
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
Wobble to Death
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