Joan Fleming

Joan Fleming (1908-1980) was a British writer of crime and thriller novels. She was born in Lancashire and educated at Lausanne University. She married Norman Bell Beattie Fleming in 1932. The Turkish detective Nuri Bey Izkirlak features in two of her books, "When I Grow Rich" and "Nothing is the Number When You Die". Her novel "The Deeds of Dr Deadcert" was made into a film RX Murder. She won the Gold Dagger award twice, for "When I Grow Rich" in 1962 and for "Young Man I Think You're Dying" in 1970.

Bibliography

*"Two Lovers Too Many" (1949)
*"A Daisy Chain for Satan" (1950)
*"The Gallows in My Garden" (1951)
*"The Man Who Looked Back" (1951); also published as "A Cup of Cold Poison"
*"Polly Put the Kettle On" (1952)
*"The Good and the Bad" (1953)
*"He Ought To Be Shot (1955)
*"The Deeds of Dr Deadcert" (1955); also published as "The Merry Widower"
*"You Can't Believe Your Eyes" (1957)
*"Maiden's Prayer" (1957)
*"Malice Matrimonial" (1959)
*"Miss Bones" (1959)
*"The Man from Nowhere" (1960)
*"In the Red" (1961)
*"When I Grow Rich" (1962); Gold Dagger Award
*"Death of a Sardine" (1963)
*"The Chill and the Kill" (1964)
*"Nothing is the Number When You Die" (1965)
*"Midnight Hag" (1966)
*"No Bones About It" (1967)
*"Kill or Cure" (1968)
*"Hell's Belle" (1968)
*"Young Man I Think You're Dying" (1970); Gold Dagger Award
*"Screams From a Penny Dreadful" (1971)
*"Grim Death and the Barrow Boys" (1971)
*"Dirty Butter for Servants" (1972)
*"Alas, Poor Father" (1973)
*"You Won't Let Me Finish" (1973)
*"How to Live Dangerously" (1974)
*"Too Late! Too Late! the Maiden Cried" (1975)
*"...To Make an Underworld" (1976)
*"Every Inch a Lady" (1977)
*"The Day of the Donkey Derby" (1978)