Harry Devlin (Fictional Detective)
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Harry Devlin is a fictional detective created by the British crime writer Martin Edwards
. He has appeared in eight novels and eight short stories, and was described by Marcel Berlins in ‘The Guardian’ as ‘a charming but down-at-heel Liverpool
solicitor with bruised emotions, a nice line in self-deprecation, and a penchant for Mersey low life.’ The series has received consistently good reviews.
In All the Lonely People, the book which introduced Harry Devlin, his estranged wife Liz is murdered, and he is the prime suspect. Harry needs to clear his name and find who killed the woman he loved. The book was nominated for the John Creasey
Memorial Dagger for the best first crime novel of 1991 (the winner being Walter Mosley).
The first seven novels appeared between 1991 and 1999. Harry Devlin returned in 2008 in Waterloo Sunset, a novel which reflects the changes in his life and in his native Liverpool during the intervening years.
Martin Edwards (author)
Kenneth Martin Edwards, commonly known as Martin Edwards is a British crime novelist, critic and solicitor.- Biography :...
. He has appeared in eight novels and eight short stories, and was described by Marcel Berlins in ‘The Guardian’ as ‘a charming but down-at-heel Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
solicitor with bruised emotions, a nice line in self-deprecation, and a penchant for Mersey low life.’ The series has received consistently good reviews.
In All the Lonely People, the book which introduced Harry Devlin, his estranged wife Liz is murdered, and he is the prime suspect. Harry needs to clear his name and find who killed the woman he loved. The book was nominated for the John Creasey
John Creasey
John Creasey MBE was an English crime and science fiction writer. The author of more than 600 novels, he published them using 28 different pseudonyms, including Anthony Morton, Michael Halliday, Kyle Hunt, J.J. Marric, Jeremy York, Richard Martin, Peter Manton, Norman Deane, Gordon Ashe, Henry St...
Memorial Dagger for the best first crime novel of 1991 (the winner being Walter Mosley).
The first seven novels appeared between 1991 and 1999. Harry Devlin returned in 2008 in Waterloo Sunset, a novel which reflects the changes in his life and in his native Liverpool during the intervening years.
Novels
- All the Lonely People (1991)
- Suspicious Minds (1992)
- I Remember You (1993)
- Yesterday’s Papers (1994)
- Eve of Destruction (1996)
- The Devil in Disguise (1998)
- First Cut is the Deepest (1999)
- Waterloo Sunset (2008)
Short stories
- It's Impossible
- The Boxer
- When I'm Dead And Gone
- Never Walk Alone
- I Say A Little Prayer
- My Ship Is Coming In
- With A Little Help From my Friends
- A House Is Not A Home
External links
- Martin Edwards Books.com – Official website