Barrie Roberts was an author, folk singer, freelance journalist, and criminal lawyer.

Biography

Born in Hampshire

Hampshire

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...

 in 1939, Roberts was educated at Churcher's College

Churcher's College

Churcher's College is an English co-educational independent, fee-paying school which is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference . The senior school is located in the market town of Petersfield, Hampshire with the junior school in nearby Liphook...

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As a lawyer, Roberts worked for two firms in the West Midlands and at one he was a part of the appeal for the Birmingham Six

Birmingham Six

The Birmingham Six were six men—Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Joseph Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker—sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 in the United Kingdom for the Birmingham pub bombings. Their convictions were declared unsafe and quashed by the Court of...

. As an instructor, Roberts taught courses on Ghosts and Unsolved Mysteries and has also lectured on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy assassination

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas...

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Roberts was a member of the Gypsy council and interested himself in the treatment of Gypsies and other travellers

Irish Traveller

Irish Travellers are a traditionally nomadic people of ethnic Irish origin, who maintain a separate language and set of traditions. They live predominantly in the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States.-Etymology:...

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Chris Tyroll

• Crowner & Justice (2002)
• Bad Penny Blues (2000)
• Robbery With Malice (1999)
• Victory Snapshot (1997)

Novels

• Sherlock Holmes and the American Angels (2007)
• Sherlock Holmes and the King's Governess (2005)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Rule of Nine (2003)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Crosby Murder (2001)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Harvest Of Death (1999)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Royal Flush (1998)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Man from Hell
  Sherlock Holmes and the Man from Hell
  Sherlock Holmes and the Man from Hell is a non-canonical Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel by Barrie Roberts.-Plot:Philanthropist Lord Backwater is found dead on his property. The police surmise that Backwater came upon some poachers which led to his murder...
  
  (1997)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Grail (1995)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac
  Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac
  Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac is a non-canonical Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel by Barrie Roberts which pits Sherlock Holmes against an anarchist who is bombing trains.The story involves real life incidents such as the Siege of Sidney Street....
  
  (1994)

Short stories

• The Disappearance of Daniel Question (The Strand Magazine #4 2000)
• The Abbus Parva Tragedy: The Mystery of the Christmas Pie (The Strand Magazine Christmas 2001)
• The Affair of the Christmas Jewel (The Strand Magazine Christmas 2002)
• The Affair of the Christmas Candle (The Strand Magazine Christmas 2003)
• The Mystery of the Addleton Curse (The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures)

Non-fiction

• Midland Ghosts and Hauntings (1994)
• Midland Murders and Mysteries (1997)
• Midland Spirits and Spectres (1998)
• Murder in the Midlands (2000)