David Roberts is an English editor and novelist. Roberts worked for several years as a book editor at Chatto and Windus,

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. Since 2000 he has been a full-time writer, best known for a series of

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set during the late 1930s, and featuring the joint adventures of Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne. The novels use actual historical events as a backdrop and there is an Author's Note at the back of the books briefly outlining what happened to the historical characters subsequently. ''

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'' has described his novels as "well-researched" and "first-rate fun".

Bibliography

Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne series: # ''Sweet Poison'' (2001) # ''Bones of the Buried'' (2001) # ''Hollow Crown'' (2002) # ''Dangerous Sea'' (2003) # ''The More Deceived'' (2004) # ''A Grave Man'' (2005) # ''The Quality of Mercy'' (2006) # ''Something Wicked'' (2007) # ''No More Dying'' (2008) # ''Sweet Sorrow'' (2009)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, David Living people English mystery writers Writers of historical fiction set in the modern age Year of birth missing (living people)