Derek Lambert (author)

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.

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

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. Between 1972 and 1977 he wrote a series of six novels beginning with Blackstone about a member of the Bow Street Runners in the 1820s.

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

Bibliography

Novels (as Derek Lambert)

• Angels in the Snow (1969)
• The Kites of War (1969)
• For Infamous Conduct (1970)
• Grand Slam (1971)
• The Red House (1972)
• The Yermakov Transfer (1974)
• Touch the Lion's Paw (1975)
• The Great Land (1978)
• The Saint Peter's Plot (1978)
• The Memory Man (1979)
• I, Said the Spy (1980)
• Trance (1981)
• The Red Dove (1982)
• The Judas Code (1983)
• The Golden Express (1984)
• The Man Who Was Saturday (1985)
• Vendetta (1986)
• Chase (1987)
• Triad (1987)
• The Night and the City (1990)
• The Gate of the Sun (1990)
• The Banya (1991)
• Horrorscope (1993)
• Diamond Express (1994)
• The Killing House (1997)

Novels (as Richard Falkirk)

• The Chill Factor (1971)
• The Twisted Wire (1972)

Blackstone novels (as Richard Falkirk)

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

• Blackstone (1972)
• Blackstone's Fancy (1973)
• Beau Blackstone (1973)
• Blackstone and the Scourge of Europe (1974)
• Blackstone Underground (1976)
• Blackstone on Broadway (1977)

Non-fiction (as Derek Lambert)

• The Sheltered Days [1965]
• Don't Quote Me But [1979]
• And I Quote [1980]
• Unquote [1981]
• Just Like the Blitz [1987]
• Spanish Lessons [2000]

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.

External links

• Derek Lambert at IMDb
• Works by Derek Lambert at Open Library