Derek Lambert

{{Short description|English journalist and author}} {{Use British English|date=August 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox writer |name=Derek Lambert |birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1929|10|10}} |birth_place=London, England |death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|2001|4|10|1929|10|10}} |death_place= Denia, Spain |occupation=Novelist |genre=Fiction }} '''Derek (William) Lambert''' (10 October 1929 – 10 April 2001)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1331984/Derek-Lambert.html |title=Obituaries – Derek Lambert |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=UK |accessdate=29 August 2007 |date=22 November 2001 |quote=Lambert made no claims for his books, which he often wrote in five weeks, simply dismissing them as pot-boilers; but in 1988 the veteran American journalist Martha Gellhorn paid tribute in The Daily Telegraph to his intricate plotting and skilful use of factual material. It appealed, she declared, to a universal hunger for "pure unadulterated storytelling", of the sort supplied by storytellers in a bazaar.}}</ref> was a British journalist and an author of thrillers. both in his own name and also writing as '''Richard Falkirk'''.<ref name="Indie">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/derek-lambert-729283.html |title=Derek Lambert (Obituary) |last=Adrian |first=Jack |date=31 July 2001 |work=The Independent |location=UK |accessdate=17 November 2013 |archivedate=1 May 2010 |quote=Derek Lambert was born in 1929 and educated at Epsom College, Surrey. His childhood and early teens spent during the Second World War were amusingly, at times movingly, described in his 1965 memoir, The Sheltered Days |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100501044825/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/derek-lambert-729283.html }}</ref>

==Life== Lambert was educated at Epsom College.<ref name="Indie"/> As a foreign correspondent for the ''Daily Express'', he spent time in many exotic locales that he later used as settings in his novels, the first of which, ''Angels in the Snow'', was published in 1969. Between 1972 and 1977 he wrote a series of six novels beginning with ''Blackstone'' about a member of the Bow Street Runners in the 1820s.

His 1975 novel ''Touch the Lion's Paw'' was adapted to film as ''Rough Cut''.<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E01EFD81238F93AA25755C0A966948260|title=Rough Cut (1980) 'ROUGH CUT,'A COMEDY ABOUT JEWEL THIEVES|first=Vincent|last=Canby|author-link=Vincent Canby|date=19 June 1980}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

===Novels (as Derek Lambert)=== *''Angels in the Snow'' (1969) *''The Kites of War'' (1969) *''For Infamous Conduct'' (1970) *''Grand Slam'' (1971) *''The Red House'' (1972) *''The Yermakov Transfer'' (1974) *''Touch the Lion's Paw'' (1975) *''The Great Land'' (1978) *''The Saint Peter's Plot'' (1978) *''The Memory Man'' (1979) *''I, Said the Spy'' (1980) *''Trance'' (1981) *''The Red Dove'' (1982) *''The Judas Code'' (1983) *''The Golden Express'' (1984) *''The Man Who Was Saturday'' (1985) *''Vendetta'' (1986) *''Chase ''(1987) *''Triad'' (1987) *''The Night and the City'' (1990) *''The Gate of the Sun'' (1990) *''The Banya'' (1991) *''Horrorscope'' (1993) *''Diamond Express'' (1994) *''The Killing House'' (1997)

===Novels (as Richard Falkirk)=== *''The Chill Factor'' (1971) *''The Twisted Wire'' (1972)

===Blackstone novels (as Richard Falkirk)=== A "Historical whodunnit" series, focusing on a Bow Street Runner Edmund Blackstone in 1820s London.

*''Blackstone'' (1972) *''Blackstone's Fancy'' (1973) *''Beau Blackstone'' (1973) *''Blackstone and the Scourge of Europe'' (1974) *''Blackstone Underground'' (1976) *''Blackstone on Broadway'' (1977)

===Non-fiction (as Derek Lambert)=== *The Sheltered Days [1965] *Don't Quote Me But [1979] *And I Quote [1980] *Unquote [1981] *Just Like the Blitz [1987] *Spanish Lessons [2000]

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0483114}} *{{OL author|885985A}}

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