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Joan Fleming


UK flag (1908 - 1980)

Joan Margaret Fleming 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.

She wrote 33 novels beginning with 'Two Lovers Too Many' in 1949 and ending with 'The Day of the Donkey Derby' in 1978.Joan Margaret Fleming 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.

She wrote 33 novels beginning with 'Two Lovers Too Many' in 1949 and ending with 'The Day of the Donkey Derby' in 1978.
 

Genres: Mystery
 
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Novels
   Two Lovers Too Many (1949)
   A Daisy-chain for Satan (1950)
   The Gallows in My Garden (1951)
   The Man Who Looked Back (1951)
     aka 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 (1957)
     aka The Merry Widower
   Maiden's Prayer (1957)
   You Can't Believe Your Eyes (1957)
   Malice Matrimonial (1959)
   Miss Bones (1959)
   The Man From Nowhere (1960)
   In the Red (1961)
   Death of a Sardine (1963)
   The Chill and the Kill (1964)
   Midnight Hag (1966)
   No Bones About It (1967)
   Hell's Belle (1968)
   Kill Or Cure (1968)
   Young Man, I Think You're Dying (1970)
   Be a Good Boy (1971)
   Screams From a Penny Dreadful (1971)
   Grim Death and the Barrow Boys (1971)
   Alas! Poor Father (1972)
   Dirty Butter For Servants (1972)
   You Won't Let Me Finnish (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)
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