OTHER
THINGS
What else David gets up to...
CRIME WRITERS
ASSOCIATION
David is a member of the national committee of the Crime Writers Association and has edited their monthly members' newsletter, Red Herrings, since 1999.
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND
David has been a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at Huddersfield University, the Times Higher Education's University of the Year, 2014, since 2012.
GHOST & MYSTERY STORIES
The Hallowe'en Mask (Mystery Press, September 2014)
This is David's first collection of ghost stories, published by Mystery Press.
‘Charming, wistful and pleasingly
nasty, as is only proper.’ Mark Gatiss
The Darke
Chronicles
(Mystery Press,
2014)
David's short
stories featuring charismatic Victorian puzzle solver Luther Darke
have been collected and published by
Mystery Press.
If you like Sherlock Holmes, then you'll love Luther Darke.
The Darke
Chronicles introduces the aristocratic and flamboyant
Victorian detective Luther Darke, who tackles mysteries that have
baffled Scotland Yard and are seemingly unexplained. The cases
featured here take Darke into a world of deception, murderous
sleights of hand, spiritualism, vampires, curses and phantoms in
fin de siècle London. This volume, a treat for all fans of vintage
crime fiction, features seven of Darke’s most challenging and
chilling investigations.
Black & white
illustration by Chris Senior
EDITORIAL & ANTHOLOGIES
WORDSWORTH EDITIONS
David is General Editor of Wordsworth Editions' Mystery and Supernatural series, for which he has contributed many introductions and compiled anthologies, including Crime Scenes, a sparkling collection of short stories written by modern masters and mistresses of the crime fiction genre and The Best of Sherlock Holmes.
COLLECTORS LIBRARY
David has contributed many Afterwords to the smart editions of classic literature published by Collectors Library, including:
Wind in the Willows
Three Men in a Boat
The Little Prince
The Jungle Book
Hard Times
The Great Gatsby
The Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens
The Thirty Nine Steps
The Maltese Falcon
Tom Brown’s School Days
Day of the Jackal
Cranford
The Turn of the Screw
Nicholas Nickleby
The Trial
The Ghost Stories of M. R. James
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Moonstone
Oscar Wilde – Shorter Fiction
Kim
Far From the Madding Crowd
& all the editions of the Sherlock Holmes Stories
For Collectors Library David also compiled the following anthologies:
Vintage Detective Stories
Spine Chillers
Tales of the Macabre
Classic Crime Stories
Irish Ghost
Stories
DAVID ABROAD
TRANSLATIONS
David's books are creeping further afield!
The lovely people
at Sparkling
Books, who produced the Johnny Hawke novel
A Taste for Blood, have negotiated new editions of
David's Sherlock Holmes novels in Chinese, Italian, French and
Korean. Watch this space!