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collected in Who Killed Father Christmas (1996).
     
     
N. RICHARD NASH (1913–2000). Playwright best known for his mainstream drama The Rainmaker , who also published three suspense plays, one as "N. Richard Nusbaum," a crime novel, and the espionage novel East Wind, Rain (1977).
     
     
EARL NORMAN (1915–2000). Pseudonym of Norman Thomson, author of nine paperback mysteries with Japanese and Hong Kong settings, 1958–76.
     
     
EMIL PETAJA (1915–2000). Science fiction and mystery author who published thirteen novels and more than one hundred short stories, including some two dozen mysteries in pulp magazines of the late 1930s and 1940s. One of his last crime stories appeared in The Saint Magazine , 4/67.
     
     
TALMAGE POWELL (1920–2000). Pulp writer and author of some 500 short stories and sixteen crime and western novels, one each as by "Jack McCready" and "Anne Talmage." He also ghosted four Ellery Queen paperbacks and was a frequent contributor to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Twenty-five of his AHMM stories were collected as Written for Hitchcock (1989).
     
     
KEITH ROBERTS (1935–2000). British science fiction author and illustrator who published a single mystery, The Road to Paradise (1988).
     
     
ROSS RUSSELL (1909–2000). Author of at least thirteen pulp crime stories, in Double-Action Gang Magazine and elsewhere.
     
     
HOWARD R. SIMPSON (1925–1999). Author of seven mystery-intrigue novels, 1965–88.
     
     
CURT SIODMAK (1902–2000). Fantasy author and writer of more than seventy screenplays including The Wolf Man. He published four suspense novels, notably Donovan's Brain (1943) which has been filmed three times.
     
     
JOHN SLADEK (1937–2000). Science fiction writer who also wrote a prize-winning short story and two novels about locked-room sleuth Thackeray Phin, Black Aura (1974) and Invisible Green (1977). With Thomas M. Disch he collaborated on a suspense novel, Black Alice (1968), under the pseudonym of "Thom Demijohn." They also published three Gothics as "Cassandra Knye."
     
     
ANDREW L. STONE (1902–1999). Director and screenwriter who published novelizations of three of his films, 1956–58.
     
     
NIGEL TRANTER (1909–2000). Pseudonym of British author Nye Tredgold, author of thirty-seven adventure and crime novels. All but The Stone (1948) are unpublished in America.
     
     
MILES TRIPP (1923–2000). British author of more than thirty suspense novels beginning with The Image of Man (1955), plus three under the pseudonym of Michael Brett.
     
     
A. E.VAN VOGT (1912–2000). Famed science fiction author who wrote two suspense novels, The House that Stood Still (1950) and The Violent Man (1962).
     
     
PHYLLIS WHITE (1915–2000). Widow of well-known mystery writer and critic Anthony Boucher and guiding spirit of the annual Bouchercon conventions, who contributed ten poems to EQMM .
     
     
PETER WILDEBLOOD (1923–1999). British author of a single crime novel, West End People (1958), unpublished in America.
     
     
NORMAN ZOLLINGER (1921–2000). Award-winning Western writer who wrote a single mystery, Lautrec (1990).
     
     
     
    World Mystery Report: Great Britain
    Maxim Jakubowski
Any literary year necessarily has its up and downs, and the first year of the millennium adopted a familiar pattern in Britain, with a surprising number of impressive new authors emerging, older names confirming the breadth of their talent, and the best-seller breakthrough of a handful of writers, some straight from the starting gate and others an ironic overnight success, when the overnight actually took a dozen years or more.
     
     
On the other hand, menacing clouds hover over the publishing horizon, with many of the innovative smaller, independent publishers of the last decade under serious threat from radical new purchasing policies at the Waterstone's chain, which could have a sorry impact on smaller houses with fragile margins. This is a definite worry as these publishers (the