Edward Grierson

Edward Grierson (9 March 1914 – 24 May 1975) was a Northumberland barrister and a writer of crime novels. His debut crime novel is the outstanding Reputation for a Song, a classic inverted detective story. Grierson also wrote five novels, six works of non-fiction and two plays. He also wrote as Brian Crowther and John P. Stevenson.

Edward Grierson
Born	(1914-03-09)9 March 1914 Bedford
Died	24 May 1975(1975-05-24) (aged 61)
Occupation	Barrister, Justice of the Peace
Language	English
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Education	B.A. (honors) in jurisprudence, 1935
Alma mater	Exeter College, Oxford (1932-1935)
Genre	Crime fiction; history
Years active	1949–1975
Notable awards	Gold Dagger Award, 1956
Spouse	Helen D. Henderson (m. 1938)

Works

Crime novels

• Shall Perish with the Sword (as Brian Crowther). London, Quality Press, 1949.
• Reputation for a Song. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Knopf, 1952. See also the film My Lover, My Son
• The Second Man. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Knopf, 1956. Gold Dagger Award (dramatised on television: 'The Second Man' on Playhouse 90 in 1959 - starred James Mason and Diana Wynyard)
• The Massingham Affair. London, Chatto and Windus, 1962; New York, Doubleday, 1963.
• A Crime of One's Own. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Putnam, 1967.

Novels

• The Lilies and the Bees. London, Chatto and Windus, 1953; as The Hastening Wind, New York, Knopf, 1953; as The Royalist, New York, Bantam, 1956.
• Far Morning. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Knopf, 1955.
• The Captain General (as John P. Stevenson). New York, Doubleday, 1956; (as Edward Grierson), London, Chatto and Windus, 1958.
• Dark Torrent of Glencoe. New York, Doubleday, 1960; London, Chatto and Windus, 1961.

Plays

• His Mother's Son, with Raymond Lulham (produced Harrogate, Yorkshire, 1953).
• Radio plays: The Ninth Legion, 1956; The Second Man, 1956; Mr. Curtis's Chambers, 1959.

Other

• Storm Bird: The Strange Life of Georgina Weldon. London, Chatto and Windus, 1959.
• The Fatal Inheritance: Philip II and the Spanish Netherlands. London, Gollancz, and New York, Doubleday, 1969.
• The Imperial Dream: The British Commonwealth and the Empire 1775–1969. London, Collins, 1972; as The Death of the Imperial Dream, New York, Doubleday (publisher), 1972.
• Confessions of a Country Magistrate, London, Gollancz, 1972.
• King of the Two Worlds: Philip II of Spain. London, Collins, and New York, Putnam, 1974.
• The Companion Guide to Northumbria. London, Collins, 1976.