The 31st of February [Hardcover]

Julian Symons (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1950

Anderson was a bored, unhappy sales executive longing for something to liven up his monotonous life. But perhaps he wished too hard because not long later he found his wife lying dead at the bottom of the cellar stairs. An accident of course – so why wouldn’t the police believe him?

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

ulian Symons is primarily remembered as a master of the art of crime writing. However, in his eighty-two years he produced an enormously varied body of work. Social and military history, biography and criticism were all subjects he touched upon with remarkable success, and he held a distinguished reputation in each field.

His novels were consistently highly individual and expertly crafted, raising him above other crime writers of his day. It is for this that he was awarded various prizes, and, in 1982, named as Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America - an honour accorded to only three other English writers before him: Graham Greene, Eric Ambler and Daphne Du Maurier. He succeeded Agatha Christie as the president of Britain's Detection Club, a position he held from 1976 to 1985, and in 1990 he was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writer --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 201 pages
• Publisher: Harper; First Edition edition (1950)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0006ASPME
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,233,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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