Derek Lambert (author)

Derek Lambert
Born (1929-10-10)10 October 1929
London, England
Died 10 April 2001(2001-04-10) (aged 71)
Denia, Spain
Occupation Novelist
Genre Fiction

Derek (William) Lambert (10 October 1929 – 10 April 2001.)[1] was educated at Epsom College and was both an author of thrillers in his own name, writing also as Richard Falkirk,[2] and a journalist.

As a foreign correspondent for the Daily Express, he spent time in many exotic locales that he later used as settings in his novels, the first of which, Angels in the Snow, was published in 1969.

His 1975 novel Touch the Lion's Paw was adapted to film as Rough Cut.[3]

Bibliography

Novels (as Derek Lambert)

Novels (as Richard Falkirk)

Blackstone novels (as Richard Falkirk)

A "Historical whodunnit" series, focusing on a Bow Street Runner Edmund Blackstone in 1820s London.

Non-fiction (as Derek Lambert)

References

  1. "Obituaries – Derek Lambert". The Daily Telegraph. UK. 22 November 2001. Retrieved 29 August 2007. Lambert made no claims for his books, which he often wrote in five weeks, simply dismissing them as pot-boilers; but in 1988 the veteran American journalist Martha Gellhorn paid tribute in The Daily Telegraph to his intricate plotting and skilful use of factual material. It appealed, she declared, to a universal hunger for "pure unadulterated storytelling", of the sort supplied by storytellers in a bazaar.
  2. Adrian, Jack (31 July 2001). "Derek Lambert (Obituary)". The Independent. UK. Archived from the original on 1 May 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2013. Derek Lambert was born in 1929 and educated at Epsom College, Surrey. His childhood and early teens spent during the Second World War were amusingly, at times movingly, described in his 1965 memoir, The Sheltered Days
  3. Canby, Vincent (19 June 1980). "Rough Cut (1980) 'ROUGH CUT,'A COMEDY ABOUT JEWEL THIEVES". The New York Times.

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