Peter Lovesey worked as a university lecturer in 1968. He provided thousand pounds for the best crime novel written by a beginner in the Times of London. The award was more than his annual salary.
He had already written a book on the history of distance runners, and his wife, Jacqueline, known as Jax, thought there might be something out there. He was thus predicted, who recorded 600 miles for six days, who recorded 600 miles, who held 600 miles, had a performance, and Cocca for sistrosted and Cocca, but of course, a mass of fatal poison.
bingo. He had his subject.
However, as his wife pointed out, “Doing Murder” was not fascinated as the title. Rovesey then recalled that newspapers of his time called races “wobble.”
“I have your title,” she told him: “”I'll wobble and die.”
The book won its fascinating title, award-winning, and was published in 1970 in line with critical and popular acclaim.
Over his half-century career, he has won more Mystery Awards than the spaces he lists, and has proven to be Brainy Widdenitt's master practitioner in the classic English tradition that hosts the genre's second golden age, along with peers such as PD James and Ruth Rendell.
Lovesey passed away on April 10th at his home in Shrewsbury, western England. He was 88 years old. His son, Phil, said the cause was pancreatic cancer.
“Wobble to Death” introduced the sharp, flapping Cribb and his stolen partner, Constable Thackeray. When the publisher handed the prize money to Mr. Lovesey, he asked what the next book would look like. The stunned Mr. Rovesy jumped over it, and he quickly kicked out one resourceful puzzler, featuring cribs and thackeray each year.
“The Detective Weared a Silk Drawer” (1971) was accompanied by naked knuckle boxing, which was illegal in London in the late 19th century. “Abracadaver” (1972) was set in a music hall. In subsequent books, the pair investigated a series of bombings by Irish nationalists, seaside murders, and another murder that began with a false confession.
By 1975, Mr. Rovesy's sixth book, “The Case of Spirits,” had been published – it involved séance and theft of art – he quit his day's job. When the book was adopted by British television in 1979 as a series starring Alan Doby, many of the scripts written by Mr. Rovesey and his wife decided he was enough.
“I was pleased with the casting of Alan Dobby as my detective Sergeant Crib, but in a strange way he lived so powerfully with the character that when I began to think about the book more, all I could see was Alan's face,” he told the interviewer. “I lost the original character somewhere in the process. Plus, I ran out of stock in the settings and with the help of Jax, I wrote a second series. The cupboard was naked.”
Enter the next hero of the unhappy, hedonistic and friendly Prince Albert, future King Edward VII and Mr. Rovesey. As depicted by Lovesey, he is a random amateur detective, blew away three cases and three popular books by defeating them. Newgate Callendar is called the “Fun Romp” with a “strong dash of PG Wodehouse” in a review of the first New York Times review, “Bertie and the Tinman” (1988), starting with the obvious suicide of the UK's most popular jockey and with a “strong dash of PG Wodehouse.”
A few years later, Lovesey turned to the present with “The Last Detective” (1991). There, a brief, popular, overweight technical evasion supervisor named Peter Diamond investigates the murder of a former soap star in the city of Bath. There is a historical touch – the side plot includes a letter from Jane Austen – but it is mainly about his struggle with diamond modernity and his own cruel failures.
“I knew very little about police procedures or forensic medicine,” Rovesey said last year. “To hide my ignorance, I made Peter Diamond the last generation of Scotland Yard men who defeated the suspects, ignored the rules and spitted men in white coats.
The 21 Peter Diamond mystery followed, through which the Iraxible detectives became slightly mellow, but Mr. Rovesey has engulfed him in a more original plot than ever before. Last year, the last “grain against grain” included murder in the retirement of grain silos and diamonds.
Apart from the unhappy side, Mr. Rovesey's son said Principal Diamond was his creator's replacement and was vehemently opposed to technology. For decades, Lovesey switched to an electric “golf ball” Olivetti typewriter, and for a short time he was reluctant to the word processor that threw him completely at him. During the pandemic, his son said he accidentally downloaded Zoom 25 times.
Peter Hermer Rovessy was born on September 10, 1936 in Whitton, Middlesex and is now in the outskirts of London. He was one of three sons, Amy (Strunk) Rovesey and bank clerk Richard Rovesey.
Peter's life was defeated in 1944 when his semiconductor home was bombed by the Germans while he was at school. His younger brother, who was at home, survived. The whole family who lived in the other half of the house was killed. For a while, Loveseys took shelter on a farm in the southwest of England.
Peter graduated from Reading University in Essex where he studied art, but after falling in love with Jacqueline Lewis, he switched to English. They married in 1959.
Lovesey served nationally to the professionals as “a pilot officer who piloted nothing and a flying officer who didn't fly.” He then taught at various universities and wrote his first book, The Kings of Distance (1968), about five real-life distance runners.
During the Cribb-to-Bertie era, Lovesey wrote several contemporary novels by Peter Lear, including “Goldengirl” (1977), about the exploitation of the Olympic track star, into a 1979 film starring Susan Anton. Set in Ocean Liner Mauritania, “The Fals Inspector Dew” (1982) imagines the alternative fate of Hawley Harvey Crippen, whose murder of his wife was Célèbre in 1910.
Written in his own name, “Edge on the Edge” (1989), two former members of the female auxiliary Air Force during World War II, were aircraft “plotters” – or air traffic controllers were important during the British battle, but they hatched plans to kill each other's repulsive husbands when the war ended. Marilyn Stacio of the Times praised the book “Jois de Mort.”
In addition to his son, Mr. Rovesey was survived by his wife. daughter, Kathy Hill; and five grandchildren.
Lovesey was well known for not only writing but also for weaving excerpts from his fanmail into his speeches. He particularly liked this communication from a female reader:
“I didn't write to thank you because I thought you passed away many years ago,” she wrote. “My husband says he thinks you might still be alive. There was quite a bit of discussion about it last night. I don't think it really matters, but I'm most grateful for putting the questions away.”
