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Basil Copper (1924–2013)

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Basil Frederick Albert Copper (born February 5, 1924 and died on April 3, 2013) was an English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor. He became a full-time writer in 1970. In addition to horror and detective fiction, Copper was perhaps best known for his series of Solar Pons stories toon meer continuing the character created as a tribute to Sherlock Holmes by August Derleth. Copper also wrote the long-running novel series featuring hard-boiled Los Angeles private detective "Mike Faraday" (58 novels from 1966 to 1988). Copper's work has been translated into many languages, reprinted in leading anthologies and filmed for television by Universal Pictures.[5] The TV adaptation was of his well-known macabre story "Camera Obscura", filmed as an episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery in 1971. Copper received many honors in recent years. In 1979, the Mark Twain Society of America elected him a Knight of Mark Twain for his outstanding "contribution to modern fiction", while the Praed Street Irregulars have twice honoured him for his work on the Solar Pons series. He has been a member of the Crime Writer's Association for over thirty years, serving as chairman in 1981-82 and on its committee for a total of seven years. At the 2010 World Horror Convention in Brighton, he was awarded the first WHC Lifetime Achievement Award. He died in April, 2013. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Werken van Basil Copper

The Great White Space (1974) 92 exemplaren
The Dossier of Solar Pons (2017) 82 exemplaren
Necropolis (1980) 59 exemplaren
The House of the Wolf (1983) 53 exemplaren
Secret Files of Solar Pons #10 (1856) 47 exemplaren
From Evil's Pillow (1973) 46 exemplaren
The Exploits of Solar Pons (1993) 34 exemplaren
The Recollections of Solar Pons (1995) 31 exemplaren
The Black Death (1708) 17 exemplaren
Whispers in the Night (1999) 16 exemplaren
The Solar Pons Companion #7 (2017) 14 exemplaren
The curse of the Fleers (1976) 13 exemplaren
The Dark Mirror (1966) 13 exemplaren
Into the Silence (1983) 10 exemplaren
Night Frost (1996) 10 exemplaren
Voices of Doom (1980) 9 exemplaren
SOLAR PONS: The Final cases (2005) 4 exemplaren
Scratch on the dark (2005) 4 exemplaren
The High Wall (1975) 4 exemplaren
Meine Lieblingsmorde (1997) 4 exemplaren
Ill Met By Daylight 3 exemplaren
Cry Wolf 3 exemplaren
The Second Passenger (1973) 2 exemplaren
Shock-Wave (1974) 2 exemplaren
Jet-Lag (1990) 2 exemplaren
Geld spielt (k)eine Rolle. (1985) 2 exemplaren
The Grey House 2 exemplaren
Shaft Number 247 2 exemplaren
Doctor Porthos 1 exemplaar
Maffians guld 1 exemplaar
Reader I Buried Him 1 exemplaar
Better Dead 1 exemplaar
Knife In The Back 1 exemplaar
Dead File (1970) 1 exemplaar
Hard Contract (1984) 1 exemplaar
Tuxedo Park (2004) 1 exemplaar
The Flabby Men 1 exemplaar
Ricochet (1976) 1 exemplaar
Shoot-Out (2005) 1 exemplaar
The Narrow Corner (1983) 1 exemplaar
Long Rest (1981) 1 exemplaar
Hang Loose (1982) 1 exemplaar
Älä huoli huomisesta (1992) 1 exemplaar

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Officiële naam
Copper, Basil Frederick Albert
Geboortedatum
1924-02-05
Overlijdensdatum
2013-04-03
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
UK
Land (voor op de kaart)
England, UK
Geboorteplaats
London, England, UK
Woonplaatsen
London, England, UK
Beroepen
news editor
novelist
short story writer
Organisaties
Crime Writers Association
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Knight of Mark Twain (Mark Twain Society of America, 1979)

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'The Second Passenger' by Basil Copper is a short story about two clerks. Samuel Briggs is tall and given to making others do his tasks if he can. The short new clerk, Braintree, does them willingly enough until the other clerks clue him in. There is a scuffle that ends in emnity between the two.

Briggs is dishonest as well as lazy. His embezzlement is found out. Braintree tries to prevent Briggs from escaping before the police arrive. Things go downhill for both men from there. The final scene is on a train. Pity that poor conductor...… (meer)
 
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JalenV | Jan 13, 2024 |
Despite the title, this hasn't a hint of horror in it. There are some Gothic nods with graveyards and a lot of fog but Copper never intended this to be horror. This is a straight-up mystery.

Lazy reviewers will probably call this a Holmes pastiche, but its not. It seems that anyone who sets a detective novel in the gaslight era is bound to be accused of imitating Doyle. Its as if any detective novel set in the 1940's must be a Marlowe pastiche. You see what I mean. Despite borrowing the period and a few characters to provide unnecessary Holmesian consistency, Clyde Beatty and Dotterell are no Holmes/Watson clones.

The mystery and the story are fairly entertaining but the plot drags a little once you figure out the gist of the whole thing. There is a clumsy romance involved that I think WAS meant to distinguish Beatty from Holmes but it is unnecessary. There is an almost inexplicable suicide in the middle that must have been because Copper didn't know what to do with the character anymore, or maybe a red herring to throw the reader off. Since the body was never found I kept expecting him to reappear somewhere.

Copper's writing is lively but not particularly evocative. I think he could have done more with the eerie settings even within the mystery genre.
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Gumbywan | 1 andere bespreking | Jun 24, 2022 |
"No Flowers For The General" is the 3rd out of 52 books in the Mike Faraday series. Despite the name being the same, there appears to be no connection to the Scientist of the same name. Copper deliberately pays homage instead to the great PI Marlowe, promising that there's a new PI in town. Faraday is the classic gumshoe working out of a small office with his bombshell of a secretary, Stella. There's a simmering attraction between them sort of like between Mike Hammer and Velda. Although Faraday is based in Los Angeles, Copper had never visited and based his locations on movies and books he was familiar with. For the most part, that works well, although the small town Mudville doesn't seem familiar to anyone familiar with Southern California.

This particular Faraday novel is almost a cross between a classic PI mystery where the detective goes to a small, insular town in search of a missing girl and an adventure novel involving an exiled general and clandestine forces out to assassinate him. Although some readers might find this combination oft-putting, Copper does a fine job of telling the story. However, there are some threads of the story that seem to lead nowhere such as why the missing girl's employer is so interested in finding her.
It is a fast paced novel and quite easy to read. It is at its best as Faraday tangles with the inhabitants of the small town. While it is probably not a classic, it is good solid entertainment and a fine story to read. There are a great many PI series and this is one of the more readable and easily accessible ones. Bottom line: fun to read, enjoyable, and adventurous.
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DaveWilde | 1 andere bespreking | Sep 22, 2017 |
Basil Copper published 52 Mike Faraday PI novels, basing his detective in Los Angeles. This book takes Faraday away from the gritty city and neon avenues to a vacation in the Bahamas - a vacation with his secretary, Stella. Amidst the sun and the surf, Faraday isn't bored. How could he be when the femme fatales are blondes in polka dot bikinis? And dead men start turning up on beaches?
This is a terrific, fast reading adventure that starts out languid like a Caribbean afternoon but really picks up in intensity through the the book with plenty of intrigue, adventure, fights, hoods, mysterious strangers, and even buried treasure.
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DaveWilde | Sep 22, 2017 |

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