Julian Symons

Julian Gustave Symons (originally Gustave Julian Symons, pronounced SIMM-ons; 30 May 1912 – 19 November 1994) was a British crime writer and poet. He also wrote social and military history, biography and studies of literature. He was born in Clapham, London, and died in Walmer, Kent. A J A Symons: His Life & Speculations (1950) biography

Charles Dickens (1951)

Thomas Carlyle. The Life and Ideas of a Prophet (1952) biography

Criminal Acts (1955)

Horatio Bottomley (1955) biography

The General Strike. A Historical Portrait (1957) history

A Reasonable Doubt (1960) non-fiction

The Thirties: a Dream Revolved (1960) revised 1975

Buller's Campaign (1963) military history

England's Pride: The Story of the Gordon Relief Expedition (1965) military history

Crime and Detection: An Illustrated History from 1840 (1966)

Critical Occasions (1966) essays

Between the Wars (1972) history

Notes From Another Country (1972) autobiographical

Bloody Murder – From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel: A History (1972) (US title: Mortal Consequences) Special Edgar Award, 1973; revised in 1985, third revised edition 1992, fourth revised edition 1994.

A Reflection on Auden (1973) broadsheet poem

The Angry 30s (1976) history

The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1978)

Conan Doyle – Portrait of an Artist (1979)

Tom Adams' Agatha Christie Cover Story (1981) (US title: Agatha Christie: The Art of Her Crimes. The Paintings of Tom Adams) (1981) introduction by John Fowles

Critical Observations: Diverse Essays (1981)

Crime and Detection Quiz (1983)

1948 and 1984. The Second Orwell Memorial Lecture (1984)

Dashiel Hammett (1985)

Two Brothers. Fragments of a Correspondence (1985)

Makers of the New: The Revolution in Literature, 1912–1939 (1987)

Oscar Wilde: A Problem in Biography (1988) Lurcy Lecture, Amherst College

Somebody Else (1990) stories

The Thirties and The Nineties (1990)

Portraits of The Missing: Imaginary Biographies (1991)

Does Literature Exist? (1992) Lurcy Lecture, Amherst College

Criminal Practices -Symons on Crime Writing 60s to 90s (1994)

Hell Gate