ABOUT
David Stuart Davies...
* is the author
of seventeen novels, numerous
non-fiction works
and is a film
historian and expert on Arthur Conan Doyle's
Sherlock Holmes
* is a member of
the national committee of the Crime Writers’
Association and has edited Red Herrings, their
monthly publication, since 1999.
* is a member of The Detection Club
* edited
Sherlock, the crime fiction magazine for ten years
from 1996 to 2006 and is an invested member of the Baker Street
Irregulars
* has contributed
many short stories to various anthologies including Crime in the City (Do Not
Press); Murder Through the Ages
(Headline); The Mammoth Book of Comic
Crime (Robinson); The Dickensian Whodunits
(Constable); Crime Scenes
(Wordsworth); and The Mammoth Book of Best British
Crime 2014 (Constable & Robinson).
* is the author
of two one-man plays about Sherlock Holmes, starring Roger
Llewellyn and directed by Gareth
Armstrong. The first, Sherlock Holmes: The Last
Act premiered at Salisbury Playhouse in 1999 and
toured for ten years and the second, Sherlock Holmes: The Death and
Life, premiered at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre,
Guildford, in March 2008 to excellent reviews. Both plays have been
recorded by The Big Finish on audio
CD.
* is currently
the General Editor for Wordsworth Editions’
successful Mystery & Supernatural
series
* writes
Afterwords and Introductions for Collector’s
Library
* has given
presentations at many literary festivals and venues including
Bouchercon, The Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in
Harrogate, CrimeFest, Bristol, Bloody Scotland, the House of
Commons, the National Media Museum in Bradford, the National Arts
Club in New York and on the Queen Mary II
* was a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at Huddersfield University from 2012-2015
* has written a
collection of ghost stories, The Hallowe’en
Mask (Mystery Press), published in September
2014
* wrote the
script for Knaresborough
Kaleidoscope, a multi-media son et lumiere
entertainment to help celebrate the Tour de France passing through
Yorkshire in July 2014
* was born in Huddersfield, where he lives with his wife, Kathryn
* studied English at Leeds University and was a teacher for twenty years before becoming a full time writer
* was 'an untidy
worker' as a little boy but as the school report below for the
eight year old David says, 'his
written English does show a lively sense of
imagination.' He is still practising his
multiplication tables..