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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 Short Story Dagger - Winner
- CWA Silver Dagger – Winner
- CWA Gold Dagger - Winner
- CWA Gold Dagger – Shortlisted
- CWA Diamond 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


Showstopper

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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