Patrick Alexander (writer)
Patrick Alexander (1926 – 1997[1] or 2003[2]) was a British novelist, thriller writer, journalist and screenwriter.
His novel Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal won the Crime Writers' Association "John Creasey Memorial Award"[3] and was filmed in 1981 as Le Professionnel starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. Stephen Hunter admits that Alexander's novel inspired his own novel Dead Zero and questions where the inspiration ends and the theft of Alexander's idea begins.[2]
Alexander was a chess fanatic; people in his novels often share his enthusiasm for the game. Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal features a "considerable description of a tournament" that chess player Stewart Reuben had organised.[4]
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal (1976)
- Show Me A Hero (1979)
- Soldier On The Other Side (1983)
- Ryfka (1988)
Screenplays
[edit]- Studio One (TV series) (1948)
- Der Verdammte (1957) (German TV movie)
- Passport to Shame (1958)
- De Veroordeelde (1959) (Dutch TV movie)
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Alexander, Patrick". Johnson and Alcock, literary agents. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012.
- ^ a b Hunter, Stephen (2010). Dead Zero. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781439149935.
- ^ "The John Creasey Dagger". Archived from the original on 15 November 2013.
- ^ Reuben, Stewart (October 1983). "Chess in Fiction". Chess. 48–49: 126.
