| 词条 | Amy Myers |
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Personal lifeMyers was born in Barnehurst,[14] which was still considered part of Kent in 1938. (In 1965, the town became part of Greater London.) It was while working in publishing that Myers met her soon-to-be American husband. Myers oversaw the publication of an autobiography by English bullfighter Henry Higgins; she met Higgins, his co-author, and the co-author's cousin, James Myers, born in Buffalo, New York.[15][16] Although American-born, James Myers, has spent his adult life living in Europe.[16] For 10 years, the Myers maintained a commuter marriage, dividing their time between Paris, where James worked, and London, where Amy worked.[1][15][21] It was during her stays in Paris that Myers dreamed up the character for her first mystery series, Auguste Didier, a half-English, half French chef who reluctantly dabbled in detection during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.[21] The couple now live in Kent full-time.[2][15][21] Writing careerLike the character Luke Frost in Myers' Marsh and Daughter series, Myers was once a publisher. She served as director of the now-defunct publishing firm of William Kimber & Co. Ltd., which specialised in war and theatrical memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, and tales of hauntings.[17] Myers published her first mystery, Murder in Pug's Parlor, in 1986. In 1988, Myers turned to writing full-time. After 11 Auguste Didier mysteries, Myers introduced former police detective Peter Marsh and his daughter Georgia in The Wickenham Murders in 2004. The father–daughter team write true-crime novels in which they expose an injustice or sleuth out the answer to an unsolved crime from the distant past.[18] The Marshes' investigations almost inevitably involve them with present-day murders stemming from secrets involving the past.[18] Myers launched a third series in 2007 with Tom Wasp and the Murdered Stunner. Tom Wasp, a Victorian era chimney sweep in East London, solves crimes along with his former apprentice, Ned.[18] Myers' fourth series, written with the help of her car buff husband, began in 2011 with Classic in the Barn.[16] That series features a modern-day classic-car restorer in Kent, Jack Colby, who helps the police with cases involving classic cars.[18] In 2017, Myers introduced yet another cozy mystery series, this one featuring Nell Drury, a female French-trained chef in 1925 Kent when such a thing was a real anomaly. The debut novel is titled Dancing with Death.[19] For her romances, historical sagas and suspense novels, Myers created the pseudonym Harriet Hudson, although she has occasionally also used the names Laura Daniels and Alice Carr.[15][17] Myers also writes reviews of other books at the online crime and thriller magazine Shots.[17] Mystery novelsAuguste Didier series
Marsh and Daughter series
Tom Wasp series
Classic Car series
Nell Drury series
Under the pseudonym Harriet Hudson
The Ashden Quartet(set in the English homefront during World War I at the rectory in the Sussex village of Ashden)
Under the pseudonym Laura Daniels
Short story collection
References1. ^1 {{cite journal|title=none|last=Vicarel|first=Jo Ann|journal=Library Journal|date=1 September 2007|volume=132|issue=14|page=116|issn=0363-0277}} 2. ^1 {{cite journal|last=Klett|first=Rex E.|title=The Wickenham Murders|journal=Library Journal|date=1 November 2004|volume=129|issue=18|page=58|publisher=Media Source, Inc.|issn=0363-0277}} 3. ^{{cite journal|last=Vicarel|first=Jo Ann|title=Murder and the Golden Goblet: A Marsh and Daughter Mystery|journal=Library Journal|date=1 August 2007|volume=132|issue=13|page=55|publisher=Media Source, Inc.|issn=0363-0277}} 4. ^{{cite journal|last=Vicarel|first=Jo Ann|title=Murder in the Mist: A Marsh and Daughter Mystery|journal=Library Journal|date=1 September 2008|volume=133|issue=14|page=102|publisher=Media Source, Inc.|issn=0363-0277}} 5. ^{{cite journal|last=Jacobsen|first=Teresa L.|title=Classic in the Barn: A Case for Jack Colby, Car Detective|journal=Library Journal|date=1 June 2011|volume=136|issue=10|page=84|publisher=Media Source, Inc.|issn=0363-0277}} 6. ^{{cite journal|title=Tom Wasp and the Newgate Knocker|journal=Publishers Weekly|date=15 March 2010|volume=257|issue=11|page=41|publisher=PWxyz LLC|issn=0000-0019}} 7. ^{{cite journal|title=Classic in the Barn: A Case for Jack Colby, the Car Detective|journal=Publishers Weekly|date=16 May 2011|volume=228|issue=20|page=59|publisher=PWxyz LLC|issn=0000-0019}} 8. ^{{cite journal|last=Flanagan|first=Margaret|title=Classic in the Clouds|journal=Booklist|date=15 December 2012|volume=109|issue=8|page=21|publisher=American Library Association|issn=0006-7385}} 9. ^{{cite journal|title=Book Review: Tom Wasp and the Newgate Knocker|journal=Kirkus Reviews|date=15 March 2010|volume=78|issue=6|page=229|publisher=Kirkus Reviews, LLC|issn=1948-7428}} 10. ^{{cite journal|title=Book Review: Classic Calls the Shots|journal=Kirkus Reviews|date=15 June 2012|volume=80|issue=12|page=1218|publisher=Kirkus Media, LLC|issn=1948-7428}} 11. ^{{cite journal|title=Book Review: Classic Mistake|journal=Kirkus Reviews|date=15 July 2013|volume=81|issue=14|page=330|issn=1948-7428}} 12. ^{{cite web|title=2011|url=http://www.themysteryplace.com/eqmm/crossword/|publisher=Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine|accessdate=1 December 2013}} 13. ^1 {{cite web|last=Hutchings|first=Janet|title="History Mystery" (by Amy Myers)|url=http://somethingisgoingtohappen.net/2013/03/27/history-mystery-by-amy-myers/|publisher=Something Is Going To Happen: The Editor of Ellery Queen′s Mystery Magazine|accessdate=1 December 2013|date=27 March 2013}} 14. ^{{cite web|title=Amy Myers Author Profile|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/97258.Amy_Myers|publisher=Goodreads|accessdate=16 September 2012}} 15. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|title=Our Authors: Amy Myers|url=http://www.severnhouse.com/author/Amy+Myers/9471|publisher=Severn House Publishers|accessdate=16 September 2012}} 16. ^1 2 {{cite web|last=Myers|first=James|title=Crime in the Fast Lane|url=http://jackcolby.co.uk/classiccars/|accessdate=16 September 2012}} 17. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|last=Myers|first=Amy|title=Author Web Page|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/97258.Amy_Myers|publisher=amymyers.net|accessdate=16 September 2012}} 18. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|last=Myers|first=Amy|title=The Characters, Amy Myers' Web Page|url=http://www.amymyers.net/the-characters/|accessdate=16 September 2012}} 19. ^{{cite web|title=Dancing with Death: A country house mystery|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dancing-with-death-amy-myers/1125001769?ean=9780727886859|website=Barnes & Noble|accessdate=11 February 2017}} External links
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