Edward Grierson


Edward Grierson was a Northumberland barrister and a writer of crime novels. His debut crime novel is the outstanding Reputation for a Song, a classic inverted detective story. Grierson also wrote five novels, six works of non-fiction and two plays. He also wrote as Brian Crowther and John P. Stevenson.

Works

; Crime novels
; Novels
  • The Lilies and the Bees. London, Chatto and Windus, 1953; as The Hastening Wind, New York, Knopf, 1953; as The Royalist, New York, Bantam, 1956.
  • Far Morning. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Knopf, 1955.
  • The Captain General. New York, Doubleday, 1956;, London, Chatto and Windus, 1958.
  • Dark Torrent of Glencoe. New York, Doubleday, 1960; London, Chatto and Windus, 1961.
; Plays
  • His Mother's Son, with Raymond Lulham.
  • Radio plays: The Ninth Legion, 1956; The Second Man, 1956; Mr. Curtis's Chambers, 1959.
; Other
  • Storm Bird: The Strange Life of Georgina Weldon. London, Chatto and Windus, 1959.
  • The Fatal Inheritance: Philip II and the Spanish Netherlands. London, Gollancz, and New York, Doubleday, 1969.
  • The Imperial Dream: The British Commonwealth and the Empire 1775–1969. London, Collins, 1972; as The Death of the Imperial Dream, New York, Doubleday (publisher), 1972.
  • Confessions of a Country Magistrate, London, Gollancz, 1972.
  • King of the Two Worlds: Philip II of Spain. London, Collins, and New York, Putnam, 1974.
  • The Companion Guide to Northumbria. London, Collins, 1976.
Category:1914 births
Category:1975 deaths
Category:British [crime fiction writers]
Category:20th-century English novelists
Category:People educated at [St Paul's School, London]