Julian Symons
# Julian Symons

Julian Symons (Londra, 30 maggio 1912 – Kent, 23 novembre 1994) è stato uno scrittore, critico letterario e poeta britannico. Dal suo romanzo The Man Who Killed Himself del 1967 è stato tratto il film Arthur! Arthur! del 1969.

## Opere

### Romanzi

* The Immaterial Murder Case (1945)
* A Man Called Jones (1947)
* Bland Beginning (1949)
   * I falsi di Amberside, I Classici del Giallo Mondadori n. 497, 1986
* The Thirty-First of February (1950)
   * Il 31 febbraio, I Classici del Giallo Mondadori, 2014
* The Broken Penny (1953)
* The Narrowing Circle (1954)
* The Paper Chase (1956) (alias Bogue's Fortune)
* The Colour of Murder (1957) (vincitore nel 1957 del Gold Dagger Award)
   * Un quadrato di seta nera
* The Gigantic Shadow (1958) (alias The Pipe Dream)
* The Progress of a Crime (1960) (vincitore nel 1961 dell'Edgar Award)
* The Killing of Francie Lake (1962) (alias The Plain Man)
* The End of Solomon Grundy (1964)
* The Belting Inheritance (1965)
* The Man Who Killed Himself (1967)
* The Man Whose Dreams Came True (1968)
* The Man Who Lost His Wife (1970)
* The Players and the Game (1972)
* The Plot Against Roger Rider (1973)
* A Three-Pipe Problem (1975)
* The Blackheath Poisonings (1978)
   * False verità, I Classici del Giallo Mondadori n. 704, 1994
* Sweet Adelaide (1980)
* The Detling Murders (1982) (alias The Detling Secret)
* The Name of Annabel Lee (1983)
* The Criminal Comedy of the Contented Couple (1985)
* The Kentish Manor Murders (1988)
* Death's Darkest Face (1990)
* Something Like a Love Affair (1992)
* Playing Happy Families (1994)
   * La famiglia felice, Il Giallo Mondadori n. 2508, 1997
* A Sort of Virtue: A Political Crime Novel (1996)

### Racconti

* Murder! Murder! (1961)
* Francis Quarles Investigates (1965)
* How to Trap a Crook (1977)
* Great Detectives - Seven Original Investigations (1981)
* The Tigers of Subtopia (1982)
* Did Sherlock Holmes Meet Hercule... (1988)
* The Man Who Hated Television (1995)
* A Julian Symons Sherlockian Duet (2000)
* The Detections of Francis Quarles (2006)
