John Wainwright Bibliography

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Joyce Porter
Series Characters: Supt Gilliant, Chief Inspector Lennox, Inspector Lyle Á Supt Charles Ripley

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Buy Books by John Wainwright Title Publisher Date Issue Points - Notes Death in a Sleeping City Collins 1965 Ten Steps to the Gallows Collins 1965 Evil Intent Collins 1966 The Crystallised Carbon Pig Collins 1966 US: 1967 Walker Talent for Murder Collins 1967 US: 1967 Walker The Worms Must Wait Collins 1967 Web of Silence Collins 1968 Edge of Extinction Collins 1968 The Darkening Glass Collins 1968 The Take Over Men Collins 1969 The Big Tickle Macmillan 1969 Freeze Thy Blood Less Coldly Rest as Above 1970 Prynter's Devil 1970 The Last Buccaneer 1971 Dig the Grave and Let Him Lie 1971 Night Is a Time to Die 1972 Requiem for a Loser 1972 A Pride of Pigs 1973 High Class Kill   1973 The Devil You Don't 1973 A Touch of Malice 1973 The Evidence I shall Give 1974 Cause for a Killing 1974 Kill the Girls and Make them Cry 1974 The Hard Hit 1974 US: 1975 St Martin's Press Square Dance 1975 US: 1975 St Martin's Press Death of a Big Man 1975 US: 1975 St Martin's Press Landscape with Violence 1975 US: 1976 St Martin's Press Coppers Don't Cry 1975 Acquittal 1976 US: 1976 St Martin's Press Walther P.38 1976 US: 1982 State Mutual Who Goes Next 1976 US: 1976 St Martin's Press The Bastard 1976 US: 1976 St Martin's Press Pool of Tears 1977 US: 1977 St Martin's Press A Nest of Rats 1977 US: 1977 St Martin's Press Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me 1977 US: 1975 St Martin's Press The Day of the Peppercorn Kill 1977 US: 1981 St Martin's Press The Jury People 1978 US: 1978 St Martin's Press Thief of Time 1978 US: 1978 St Martin's Press Death Certificate 1978 US: 1982 State Mutual A Ripple of Murders 1978 US: 1979 St Martin's Press Brainwash 1979 US: 1979 St Martin's Press Duty Elsewhere 1979 US: 1979 St Martin's Press Tension 1979 US: 1982 State Mutual The Reluctant Sleeper 1979 US: 1982 State Mutual Home is the Hunter 1979 Take Murder 1979 US: 1981 St Martin's Press The Venus Fly Trap 1980 US: 1980 St Martin's Press The Eye of the Beholder 1980 US: 1980 St Martin's Press Dominoes 1980 US: 1980 St Martin's Press Man of Law 1980 US: 1981 St Martin's Press A Kill of Small Consequence 1980 The Tainted Man 1980 All on a Summer's Day 1981 US: 1981 St Martin's Press An Urge for Justice 1981 US: 1982 St Martin's Press Blayde RIP 1982 US: 1982 St Martin's Press Anatomy of a Riot 1982 The Distaff factor 1982 Their Evil Ways 1983 US: 1983 St Martin's Press Spiral Staircase 1983 US: 1983 St Martin's Press Heroes No More 1983 Cul-de-Sac 1984 The Forest 1984 The Ride 1984 Clouds of Guilt Macmillan 1985 All Through the Night Macmillan 1985 US: 1985 St Martin's The Tenth Interview Macmillan 1986 US: 1986 St Martin's Portrait in Shadows Macmillan 1986 The Forgotten Murders Macmillan 1987 A Very Parochial Murder Macmillan 1988 US: 1988 St Martin's Blind Brag Macmillan 1988 US: 1988 St Martin's The Man Who Wasn't There Macmillan 1989   Hangman's Lane Little Brown 1992 Sabbath Morn Little Brown 1993 Murder Story Little Brown 1994 The Life and Times of Christmas Calvert Little Brown 1995 John Wainwright Biography John Wainwright was born in Leeds in 1921 and served during the war in the RAF. He went on to become a policeman in Yorkshire which provided him with the experience to write British Police Procedurals As can be seen he was a hugely prolific author but despite this he has maintained his standards those familiar with his books appreciate them and those not could do a lot worse than give them a try.

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