Mat Coward
# Mat Coward

Mat Coward est un écrivain britannique, auteur de roman policier.

## Biographie

En 2000, il publie son premier roman Up and Down, premier volume d'une série consacrée à Don Packham, inspecteur-détective, et Frank Mitchell, policier, à Londres.

Il publie de nombreuses nouvelles de littérature policière et pour la jeunesse. À deux reprises, il est nommé pour le prix Edgar-Allan-Poe de la meilleure nouvelle.

## Œuvre

### Romans

**Série Don Packham et Frank Mitchell**

* Up and Down (2000)
* In and Out (2001)
* Over and Under (2004)
* Deep and Crisp (2004)
* Open and Closed (2005)

**Autres romans**

* The Soother's Boy (2008)
* Acts of Destruction (2009)

### Nouvelles

* 1993 History Repeats Itself, and It Doesn't Even Say Pardon
* 1994 The Hampstead Vegetable Heist
* 1994 Do the World a Favour
* 1994 Cold Calling
* 1994 The Set-up Man
* 1994 Clean and Bright
* 1995 Do You Know this Man?
* 1995 Those Things
* 1995 No Night by Myself
* 1996 Bits
* 1997 Corroboration
* 1997 Nice People
* 1998 Not a Minute on the Day
* 1998 Where the Cat Came in
* 1998 Old Sultan
* 1998 Talk to Me
* 1999 Here, Fluffy!
* 1999 We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years
* 1999 Nowhere to Be Found
* 1999 The Monkey Puzzle
* 1999 Tomorrow's villain
* 1999 Happs!
* 2000 We All Saw It
* 2000 Twelve of the Little Buggers
* 2000 Three Nil
* 2000 Jilly's Fault
* 2000. Great Days, Eh Lads?
* 2000 Strikers
* 2000 Nice Place
* 2000 Under the Circumstances
* 2000 Tall Man, Large Cat
* 2000 The Shortest Distance
* 2000 But Poor Men Pay for All
* 2000 Now I Know Its Name
* 2001 The Dog's Route
* 2001 So Where've You Buried the Missus Then, Paddy?
* 2001 Reason to Believe
* 2001 And What Can They Show, or What Reasons Give?
* 2001 Missing the Cat
* 2001 The Second Question
* 2001 You Again
* 2002 If All Is Dark
* 2002 Time Spent in Reconnaissance
* 2002 Early Retirement
* 2002 Little Green Card
* 2002 One Box of Books
* 2002 You Can Jump
* 2002 And the Buttocks Gleamed by Night
* 2002 Back to the Land
* 2002 Too Subtle for Me
* 2003 I Ain't Drunk, I'm Just Drinkin
* 2003 Be Lucky
* 2003 Remote Viewing
* 2003 Too Hot to Die
* 2003 Offenders
* 2003 By Hand or by Brain
* 2003 The Cat's Mother
* 2003 Bloody Victims
* 2003 Persons Reported
* 2004 The Hope of the World
* 2004 Room To Move
* 2005 One Hand One Bounce
* 2006 Jizz
* 2008 Losing the Audience
* 2015 On Borrowed Time

### Recueils de nouvelles

* Do the World a Favour and Other Stories (2003)
* The Last Noel (2004)
* So Far, So Near (2007)
* You Can Jump and Other Stories (2012)

### Autres ouvrages

* Cannibal Victims Speak Out (1995)
* Classic Radio Comedy (2003)

## Prix et distinctions

### Nominations

* Prix Edgar-Allan-Poe 2001 de la meilleure nouvelle pour Twelve Little Buggers
* Prix Edgar-Allan-Poe 2016 de la meilleure nouvelle pour On Borrowed Time
* Prix Macavity 2016 de la meilleure nouvelle pour On Borrowed Time
