Paula Gosling is a US

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-born crime writer. She has lived in the UK

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 since the 1960s. Gosling started her writing career as a copy-writer. She published her first novel, A Running Duck, in 1974. It won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year. She has also received the Gold Dagger

Gold Dagger

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 for a subsequent book, Monkey Puzzle, in 1985. She is a past Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association

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.

A Running Duck (also published as Fair Game) has been adapted twice into films, once as a Sylvester Stallone

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 vehicle, Cobra, and the second time as a film with Cindy Crawford

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 entitled Fair Game.

Jack Stryker series

• Monkey Puzzle (1985); Gold Dagger
  Gold Dagger
  The Gold Dagger Award was an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association for the best crime novel of the year.For its first five years, the organization's top honor was known as the Crossed Red Herring Award....
  
   Award
• Backlash (1989)
• Ricochet (2002)

Blackwater Bay series

• The Body in Blackwater Bay (1992)
• A Few Dying Words (1993)
• The Dead of Winter (1995)
• Death and Shadows (1998)
• Underneath Every Stone (2000)

Other novels

• A Running Duck (1974) (also published as Fair Game); John Creasey Award
  CWA New Blood Dagger
  The CWA New Blood Dagger is an annual award given by the British Crime Writers' Association for first books by previously unpublished writers. It is given in memory of CWA founder John Creasey and was previously known as The John Creasey Memorial Award. The award is voted on by past winners and...
  
  
• The Zero Trap (1979)
• Loser's Blues (1980) (also published as Solo Blues)
• Mind's Eye (1980) (writing as Ainslie Skinner) (also published as The Harrowing)
• The Woman in Red (1983)
• Hoodwink (1988)
• Cobra (1999)
• Tears of the Dragon (2004)

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