The Plot Against Roger Rider

Symons, Julian

ISBN 10: 0002316358 / ISBN 13: 9780002316354

Published by The Crime Club, London, 1973

About this Item

1st edition. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Leaf 121/122 has a folded corner from previous reader marking their place - a habit which offends any self-respecting book lover. Else book is near Fine in Very Good dust-jacket with two repaired tears.

Seller Inventory # 9582

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Plot Against Roger Rider
• Publisher: The Crime Club, London
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002316358
• ISBN 13: 9780002316354
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: near very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Crime, Thrillers & Mystery

About this title

Synopsis

Two old friends whose private and business lives have become entangled over the years become wary of each other after a holiday in Spain dramatically alters their friendship

About the Author

Julian Symons is primarily remembered as a master of the art of crime writing. However, in his eighty-two years he produced an enormously varied body of work. Social and military history, biography and criticism were all subjects he touched upon with remarkable success, and he held a distinguished reputation in each field. His novels were consistently highly individual and expertly crafted, raising him above other crime writers of his day. It is for this that he was awarded various prizes, and, in 1982, named as Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America - an honour accorded to only three other English writers before him: Graham Greene, Eric Ambler and Daphne Du Maurier. He succeeded Agatha Christie as the president of Britain's Detection Club, a position he held from 1976 to 1985, and in 1990 he was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers for his lifetime's achievement in crime fiction. Symons died in 1994.