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Eric Wright

"Eric Wright turns out detective books that are to the crime novel what John le Carré's spy books are to the espionage genre." Quill & Quire

Eric Wright, one of the most honoured crime fiction writers in Canada, has won the Arthur Ellis Award four times. In 1984, he won his first Arthur Ellis Award for the first of his novels featuring Charlie Salter, The Night the Gods Smiled. He repeated the feat two years later with Death in the Old Country, and he also received the Award twice in the short story category ("Looking for an Honest Man," in the anthology Cold Blood: Murder in Canada, and the second time for "Two in the Bush." In addition to the always popular adventures of Charlie Salter, published in translation by Alire, he also writes the adventures of a female detective, Lucy Trimple Brenner, and of another Toronto police officer, Mel Pickett. He has also published a volume of memoirs, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man.

• Awards
• Bibliography

Bibliography

Charlie Salter series

• The Night the Gods Smiled. Novel. Collins,1983.
  • La Nuit de toutes les chances. Lévis : Alire, (Romans 074), 2004.
• Smoke detector. Novel. Collins, 1984.
  • Une odeur de fumée. Lévis : Alire, (Romans 079), 2004.
• Death in the Old Country. Novel. Collins Crime, 1985.
  • Une mort en Angleterre, Lévis : Alire, (Romans 083), 2005.
• A Single Death. Novel. Collins Crime, 1986.
  • Mort d'une femme seule, Lévis : Alire, (Romans 088), 2005.
• A Body Surround by Water. Novel. Collins Crime, 1987.
  • Morts sur l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, Lévis : Alire, (Romans 093), 2006.
• Question of Murder. Novel. Collins Crime, 1988.
  • Une affaire explosive, Lévis : Alire, (Romans 098), 2006.
• A Sensitive Case. Novel. Collins Crime, 1990.
  • Une affaire délicate, Lévis : Alire, (Romans 105), 2007.
• Final Cut. Novel. Collins Crime, 1991.
  • Mort au générique, Lévis : Alire, (Romans 111), 2008.
• A Fine Italian Hand. Novel. Collins Crime, 1993.
• Death By Degrees. Novel. Collins Crime, 1993.
• The Last Hand. Novel. St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002.

Mel Pickett series

• Buried in Stone. Novel. Collins Crime, 1995.
• Death of a Hired Man. Novel. St. Martin's Press, 2001.

Lucy Trimble Brenner series

• Death of a Sunday Writer. Novel. Collins Crime, 1996.
• Death On the Rocks. Novel. St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Joe Barley series

• The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn. Novel. 2000.
• The Hemingway Caper. Novel. 2003.

• Always Give a Penny to A Blind Man. Autobiography. 1999.

Awards

• 1984 Arthur-Ellis award : The Night the Gods Smiled
• 1986 Arthur-Ellis award : Death in the Old Country
• 1988 Arthur-Ellis award : "Looking for an Honest Man"
• 1992 Arthur-Ellis award : "Two in the Bush"