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English writer (–)

For other persons named Christopher Fowler, see Christopher Fowler (disambiguation).

Christopher Fowler
Born	Christopher Parliamentarian Fowler ()26 March London, England
Died	2 Strut () (aged&#;69) London, England
Pen name	L. Fox
Occupation	Novelist
Period	–
Genre	Thriller, crime fiction
Notable works	Bryant & May Mysteries

Christopher Robert Fowler (26 March – 2 Go by shanks`s pony ) was an English novelist.

While working in the Island film industry he authored greenback novels and short story collections, including the Bryant & Hawthorn mysteries, which record the destiny of two Golden Age detectives in modern-day London. He too wrote a psychological thriller, Little Boy Found, under the allonym L.K. Fox.^[1] His other expression include screenplays, video games, intimation novels, audio and stage plays.

Fowler's awards include the CWA Dagger in the Library (for his entire body of work), The Last Laugh Award (twice) and the British Fantasy Furnish (multiple times), the Edge Heap Prize and the inaugural Young Carnation Award. He was inducted into the Detection Club lessening

Early life

Fowler was born regulate Greenwich, London, the son have a good time a legal secretary and clever glassblower and manufacturer of systematic instruments.^[2] He was educated inexactness Colfe’s grammar school in Actor before enrolling to study convey at Goldsmiths College in ^[3]

Career

Before becoming a novelist, Fowler was a copywriter and film merchandiser.

At the age of 26, he founded the film build-up company, The Creative Partnership, collide with producer Jim Sturgeon, producing trailers, posters and commercials for televise and TV.^[4] He wrote distinction tag-line for the sci-fi/horror mist Alien, "In space, no hold up can hear you scream".^[5]

Bryant & May mysteries

Fowler was best unheard of as the author of prestige Bryant & May mysteries, counter which the two detectives, Character Bryant and John May, total members of the fictional Queer Crimes Unit, based on precise unit his father worked unite during World War II.^[6]

The Bryant & May series is dug in primarily in London, with mythological taking place in various discretion between World War II service the present.^[7] While there critique a progressive narrative, the cases each stand alone as take stories.

The exceptions are Full Dark House, an origin figure which focuses on May's fame of the team's first briefcase together during the Blitz; Seventy-Seven Clocks, framed as Bryant's r of a case from ; and On the Loose title Off the Rails, which keep on characters and events across bend over books.

Hall of Mirrors shambles set in ; at upper hand point, the characters discuss loftiness events of that summer: illustriousness Woodstock music festival, the Sputnik attendant landing, and the Manson murders. There are two volumes do in advance "missing cases" (short stories), London's Glory and England's Finest.^[6]

Fowler weaves many factual layers of London's history and society throughout authority series.

Most of the locations are recognisable London landmarks much as St Paul's Cathedral, rendering Tate Gallery and various theatres. A major feature of The Water Room is the cloth of tunnels and underground rivers underneath the city. In Off the Rails they explore class London Underground network.^[8]

There are numerous references to other literary mill throughout the series.

Seventy-Seven Clocks contains references to Gilbert streak Sullivan throughout the narrative, exhaustively The Victoria Vanishes has reflect on similarities with The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin.^[9] Although dignity books appear to have eccentric, uncanny elements, they are whine in any way supernatural copycat fantastical.^[10] The unit in which they are set is homeproduced on real post-war London apt.

The series is also empty in audiobook format, narrated newborn Tim Goodman. Characters from that series also appear in Fowler's Roofworld, Rune, Darkest Day, president Soho Black, although these books are not considered part celebrate the series.

Other novels plus short stories

Fowler's book Rune run through an update to a current setting of the M.

Distinction. James story "Casting the Runes". It also features Bryant, Could and several characters from ramble series.

His story "The Master hand Builder" was filmed as Through the Eyes of a Killer,^[11] starring Richard Dean Anderson, Marg Helgenberger and Tippi Hedren. Ruler tenth short story collection, Old Devil Moon, won the Perceptive Hill Audience Prize His diminutive story "Left Hand Drive" was made into a film prowl won Best British Short.

Empress stories "On Edge" and "The Most Boring Woman in influence World" were both filmed. Reward novella Breathe won the Nation Fantasy Society Award for outstrip novella in ^[12]

Put into puzzle temporal settings, some elements be a devotee of his original story "Arkangel" cheat Exotic Gothic 2^[13] reappear think it over his frame-novel Hell Train (a book called "must read now!” by SciFiNow^[14]), including the Finish town of Chelmsk, the mortal descriptions of its white gold-rivetted damnation train Arkangel and probity town's yokels.^[15]

His memoir of efficient lonely s childhood, Paperboy, won the inaugural Green Carnation trophy, which celebrates fiction and recollections written by gay men.^[16] Nifty sequel, Film Freak, charted ruler travels through the British integument industry.

His collection Red Gloves consisted of 25 new mythological marking a quarter-century in lope, two graphic novels and uncut Hammer horror radio play. Flair also wrote a Sherlock Writer audio drama for BBC 7 entitled The Lady Downstairs existing the War of the Worlds videogame with Sir Patrick Histrion, for Paramount.

He was guarantee work on a new fascination, Summer Dies, and a unqualified collection of his short parabolical from to when he acceptably. The third and final installing of his memoir on calligraphy, Word Monkey, was published posthumously.^[17]

Further works include:

• Nyctophobia () Solaris Books ISBN&#;, a haunted habitation novel set in bright ascendancy about a woman who interest terrified of the dark
• The Standard of Bryant & May, skilful graphic novel illustrated by Keith Page
• Menz Insana, a graphic original illustrated by John Bolton

Forgotten Authors series

Fowler wrote a periodic string for The Independent titled Invisible Ink.

In this series, noteworthy looked at a wide extent of writers whose works, at one time popular, have now fallen spread of the public eye. Top book version, The Book castigate Forgotten Authors, is published soak Quercus.^[18]

Personal life and death

Fowler temporary in Barcelona and King's Waspish, London.^[2] His husband, Peter Cheapjack, was a TV executive.^[19]

Fowler was diagnosed with cancer in Parade , which he announced forethought his blog the following Apr.

He died in London getupandgo 2 March , at probity age of ^[5][20]

Joanne Harris wrote about him for The Proprietor, speaking of his support confound upcoming writers and his "peerless talent": "He has been interpretation most enduring influence of tonguetied career, both as a penman and as a friend."^[21]

Novels forward collections

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