James McClure (Estate)

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Agent: Robert Kirby
Associate Agent: Kate Walsh

Books

James McClure was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in the capital of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.  While working for three major newspapers there, he became a specialist in crime and court stories.  After emigrating to Great Britain, he worked at the Scottish Daily Mail in 1965, he became deputy editor of The Oxford Times of weekly papers, a post he held until 1974 when he resigned to devote more time to writing.  McClure is most familiar to American readers for his novels.  He has twice won The Crime Writers Association's Dagger Award.  He died in 2006.

Fiction

Publication DetailsNotes

THE STEAM PIG

1970

Soho Press US

Published August 2010

THE GOOSEBERRY FOOL

1974

Soho Press

To be reissued 2010

ROGUE EAGLE

1976

THE BLOOD OF AN ENGLISHMAN

1982

THE CATERPILLAR COP

1982

Soho Press US

Published August 2010

THE SUNDAY HANGMAN

1985

SNAKE

1985

Soho Press

To be reissued 2010

THE SONG DOG

1992

FOUR AND TWENTY VIRGINS

1990

THE ARTFUL EGG

1986

Non-Fiction

Publication DetailsNotes

COP WORLD

1986

SPIKE ISLAND

1988