Brief description: One of Britain's most acclaimed mystery writers, JULIAN SYMONS was the author of the award-winning novels The Colour of Murder and The Progress of a Crime. He also published works of biography, history, and literary criticism, including Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel, a celebrated study of mystery storytelling. He was a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, and received the prestigious Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain. Symons died in 1994.
