Elleston Trevor (1920–1995)
Författare till The Quiller Memorandum
Om författaren
Author Trevor Dudley-Smith was born in Kent, England on February 17, 1920. He attended Yardley Court Preparatory School and Sevenoaks School. During World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force as a flight engineer. After the war, he started writing full-time. He lived in Spain and France before visa mer moving to the United States and settling in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1946 he used the pseudonym Elleston Trevor for a non-mystery book, and later made it his legal name. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Roger Fitzalan, Howard North, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith, and Lesley Stone. Even though he wrote thrillers, mysteries, plays, juvenile novels, and short stories, his best-known works are The Flight of the Phoenix written as Elleston Trevor and the series about British secret agent Quiller written as Adam Hall. In 1965, he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award by Mystery Writers of America and the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for The Quiller Memorandum. This book was made into a 1967 movie starring George Segal and Alec Guinness. He died of cancer on July 21, 1995. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Elleston Trevor
The Pasang Run 3 exemplar
Heather Hill 2 exemplar
Forbidden Kingdom 2 exemplar
Silhouette 1 exemplar
Quiller sul Bersaglio 1 exemplar
Last Rites 1 exemplar
The Flight of the Phoenix [abridged] 1 exemplar
Squirrel's Island 1 exemplar
THE FREEBOOTERS, BROUGHT IN DEAD, A DEADLY SHADE OF GOLD (MAN/'S BOOK - THREE COMPLETE BOOKS IN ONE VOLUME) (1968) 1 exemplar
Image in the Dust 1 exemplar
No último andar 1 exemplar
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Man's Book: The Flight of the Phoenix | Hammerhead | Double Exposure (1965) — Bidragsgivare; Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Het Beste Boek 34: Strijd tegen de duisternis / Hotel in New Orleans / De vlucht van de Phoenix / Dagboek van een… (1967) 2 exemplar
Prólogo de amor - O voo da fênix - Um pacto com Deus - Fugindo da China vermelha (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Dudley-Smith, Trevor (birth)
- Andra namn
- Smith, Caesar
Hall, Adam
Rattray, Simon
Black, Mansell
Burgess, Trevor
Fitzalan, Roger (visa alla 9)
North, Howard
Scott, Warwick
Stone, Lesley - Födelsedag
- 1920-02-17
- Avled
- 1995-07-21
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Födelseort
- Bromley, London, England, UK
- Dödsort
- Cave Creek, Arizona, USA
- Dödsorsak
- cancer
- Bostadsorter
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Organisationer
- Royal Air Force (WWII)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Edgar Allan Poe Award (1965)
Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (1965)
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Listor
Priser
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Statistik
- Verk
- 91
- Även av
- 4
- Medlemmar
- 4,005
- Popularitet
- #6,304
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 56
- ISBN
- 461
- Språk
- 10