Patricia Moyes

Patricia Pakenham-Walsh, a.k.a. Patricia Moyes was an Irish-born British mystery writer. She was born in Dublin on January 19,1923 and was educated at Overstone girls' school in Northampton. She joined the WAAF in 1939. In 1946 Peter Ustinov hired her as technical assistant on his film School for Secrets. She became his personal assistant for the next eight years. In 1960 she wrote the screenplay for the film "School for Scoundrels" starring Ian Carmichael, Terry Thomas, and Alastair Sim. She married photographer John Moyes in 1951; they divorced in 1959. She later married James Haszard, a linguist at the International Monetary Fund in The Hague. She died at her home on the island of Virgin Gorda (British Virgin Islands) on August 2 2000.

Her mystery novels feature C.I.D. Inspector Henry Tibbett. One of them, "Who Saw Her Die" ("Many Deadly Returns" in the US) was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1971. She also wrote several juveniles and short stories.

Bibliography

* Dead Men Don't Ski (1959)
* The Sunken Sailor a.k.a. Down Among the Dead Men (1961)
* Death on the Agenda (1962)
* Murder a la Mode (1963)
* Falling Star (1964)
* Johnny Underground (1965)
* To Kill a Coconut a.k.a. The Coconut Killings (1966)
* Murder Fantastical (1967)
* Death and the Dutch Uncle (1968)
* Who Saw Her Die? a.k.a. Many Deadly Returns (1970)
* Season of Snows and Sins (1971)
* The Curious Affair of the Third Dog (1973)
* Black Widower (1975)
* Who Is Simon Warwick? (1978)
* Angel Death (1980)
* A Six-Letter Word for Death (1983)
* Night Ferry to Death (1985)
* Black Girl, White Girl (1989)
* Twice in a Blue Moon (1993)

See also

[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0610480/ Patricia Moyes at the Internet Movie Database]

[http://www.xs4all.nl/~embden11/Engels/moyes.htm Bibliography of Patricia Moyes with some biographical elements]

[http://italian-mysteries.com/PM01.html A short article about her first novel "Dead Men Don't Ski"]