Paul Winterton

Paul Winterton (12 February 1908 – 8 January 2001) was an English journalist and crime novelist. Throughout his career he used the pseudonyms Andrew Garve, Roger Bax and Paul Somers.

Winterton was born in Leicester, the son of a left-wing journalist, Ernest Winterton, who was the Labour Member of Parliament for Loughborough from 1929 to 1931. He was educated at Hulme Grammar School in Manchester and Purley County School in Surrey. He went on to take a degree in Economics at The London School of Economics. He was a reporter for The Economist for four years, and later for The News Chronicle. He was sent to Moscow from 1942 to 1945, where he was also the correspondent of the BBC’s Overseas Service.[1]

Winterton stood for the Labour Party at the 1931 United Kingdom general election in Canterbury, and at the 1935 United Kingdom general election in Mitcham.[2]

After the war, Winterton turned to writing crime and mystery fiction full-time. He was a founder-member of the Crime Writers' Association in 1953 and, with Elizabeth Ferrars, its first joint secretary.

Filmography
  • Never Let Me Go (1953) (novel Came the Dawn)
  • The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (2 TV episodes, 1962) :
    • "House Guest" (novel The Golden Deed)
    • "Night of the Owl" (novel End of the Track)
  • Two Letter Alibi (1962) (novel Death and the Sky Above)
  • A Touch of Larceny (1959) (novel The Megstone Plot)[3]
  • The Desperate Man (1959) (novel Beginner's Luck)

Bibliography
  • Death Beneath Jerusalem (1938) (writing as Roger Bax)
  • Red Escapade (1940) (writing as Roger Bax)
  • Disposing of Henry (1947) (writing as Roger Bax)
  • Blueprint for Murder (1948) (writing as Roger Bax)
    • aka The Trouble with Murder
  • Came the Dawn (1949) (writing as Roger Bax)
    • aka Two If by Sea
  • No Mask for Murder (1950)
    • aka Fontego's Folly
  • No Tears for Hilda (1950)
  • A Press of Suspects (1951)
    • aka By-Line for Murder
  • Murder in Moscow (1951)
    • aka Murder Through the Looking Glass
  • A Grave Case of Murder (1951) (writing as Roger Bax)
  • A Hole in the Ground (1952)
  • The Cuckoo Line Affair (1953)
  • Death and the Sky Above (1953)
  • The Riddle of Samson (1954)
  • The End of the Track (1955)
  • The Megstone Plot (1956)[3]
  • The Narrow Search (1957)
  • The Galloway Case (1958)
  • Beginner's Luck (1958) (writing as Paul Somers)
  • Operation Piracy (1958) (writing as Paul Somers)
  • A Hero for Leanda (1959)
  • The Shivering Mountain (1959) (writing as Paul Somers)
  • The Golden Deed (1960)
  • The Far Sands (1961)
  • The Broken Jigsaw (1961) (writing as Paul Somers)
  • The House of Soldiers (1962)
  • Prisoner's Friend (1962)
  • The Sea Monks (1963)
  • Frame-Up (1964)
  • The Ashes of Loda (1965)
  • Murderer's Fen (1966)
    • aka Hide and Go Seek
  • A Very Quiet Place (1967)
  • The Long Short Cut (1968)
  • The Ascent of D-13 (1969)
  • Boomerang (1970)
  • The Late Bill Smith (1971)
  • The Case of Robert Quarry (1972)
  • The File on Lester (1974)
    • aka The Lester Affair
  • Home to Roost (1976)
  • Counterstroke (1978)

References
  1. https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/andrew-garve/f4093e6f-265f-47a7-3c1f-08d5dd18a060
  2. Winterton, Paul. Andrew Garve and Soviet Russia. p. 91. ISBN 0244964963.
  3. "Paul Winterton, 92, Suspense Novelist – Obituary; Biography – NYTimes.com". The New York Times. 28 March 2001. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.