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Trade paper ISBN-13: 978-1960241306 List Price: $17.99 U.S. Pages: 152 Published: 2024 |
The Winds of Midnight (1964)
John Blackburn Book Description
Mary Irwin was crushed by a truck. The police ruled it an accidental death, but her husband Bill isn’t so sure: his own memory of the night is clouded by amnesia—could he have pushed her himself?
His investigations uncover an affair between Mary and her boss, a murderous blackmail conspiracy, the identity of a ‘missing’ Nazi war criminal, and a ruthless killer whose only weakness is his horror of rats . . . The eighth novel by the prolific John Blackburn (1923-1993), one of the most popular British thriller and horror writers of his day, The Winds of Midnight (1964) features a whirlwind plot that proceeds at breakneck pace towards an explosive conclusion. |
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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
John Blackburn was born in 1923 in the village of Corbridge, England, the second son of a clergyman. He started attending Haileybury College near London in 1937, but his education was interrupted by the onset of World War II; the shadow of the war, and that of Nazi Germany, would later play a role in many of his works. He served as a radio officer during the war in the Mercantile Marine from 1942 to 1945, and resumed his education afterwards at Durham University, earning his bachelor’s degree in 1949. Blackburn taught for several years after that, first in London and then in Berlin, and married Joan Mary Clift in 1950. Returning to London in 1952, he took over the management of Red Lion Books.
It was there that Blackburn began writing, and the immediate success in 1958 of his first novel, A Scent of New-Mown Hay, led him to take up a career as a writer full-time. He and his wife also maintained an antiquarian bookstore, a secondary career that would inform some of Blackburn’s later work. A prolific author, Blackburn would write nearly 30 novels between 1958 and 1985; most of these were horror and thrillers, but also included one historical novel set in Roman times, The Flame and the Wind (1967). He died in 1993.
It was there that Blackburn began writing, and the immediate success in 1958 of his first novel, A Scent of New-Mown Hay, led him to take up a career as a writer full-time. He and his wife also maintained an antiquarian bookstore, a secondary career that would inform some of Blackburn’s later work. A prolific author, Blackburn would write nearly 30 novels between 1958 and 1985; most of these were horror and thrillers, but also included one historical novel set in Roman times, The Flame and the Wind (1967). He died in 1993.