Word: ambler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Horowitz wears tails, Roger Clemens a Red Sox uniform, and thriller writers, according to tradition, are caparisoned in creased outerwear, lurking beside bridge abutments in the fog. Archer is radiant and fogproof. With a lesser talent, this miscalculation could have been fatal. After all, when one of Eric Ambler's down-at-the-heels protagonists makes a dodgy border crossing, the tension is palpable. Readers know that if the policeman in the greasy uniform were a shade more intelligent, he would realize that the hero's accent is bogus, his passport fake. An author who sees himself in boardroom costume...
Dave B. Olim Ambler...
...peers than public fame. His history of detective fiction (Bloody Murder) and biographies of Poe and Dickens, among others, have won scholarly tribute. Just last year he was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, an honor shared by only three other compatriots: Graham Greene, Eric Ambler and Daphne du Maurier. Symons' name is not so well known as theirs, but like them he can invest a plot with significance beyond its conclusion. Symons has never approached the fame of Agatha Christie, whom he succeeded in 1976 as president of Britain's Detection Club...
Dave B. Olim Ambler...
...beach just about anywhere. Vermeule suggests Collected Stories, by Eric Ambler, or Late Innings, by Roger Angell...