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Mike Ripley was born in 1952 and is the British author of the award-winning ‘Angel’ series of comedy thrillers as well as a critic and archaeologist. ==Life and work== Ripley is the author of the ''Angel'' series of comedy thrillers set mainly in Essex and London's East End.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Contributors > Mike Ripley )〕 He won the Crime Writers' Association 'Last Laugh Award' for best humorous crime novel for 'Angel Touch' in 1989 and 'Angels In Arms' in 1991.〔 He was also a scriptwriter for the fifth series of the BBC comedy-drama ''Lovejoy'' (1986–94) starring Ian McShane, and served as The Daily Telegraph's crime fiction critic for ten years. In 2003 at the age of fifty he suffered a stroke; his 2006 book, ''Surviving a Stroke'', is his autobiographical account of his recovery. After twenty years of working in London he moved to East Anglia and became an archaeologist. In the words of his publisher, "he was thus one of the few crime writers who regularly turned up real bodies".〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mike Ripley at Alison & Busby )〕 He currently writes the "Getting Away With Murder" column for the online publication ''Shots''. The inspiration for the column (he once claimed) came after a night of drinking gin with Auberon Waugh and Gore Vidal in London. He is the series editor at Ostara Publishing, which specialises in reprinting classic mysteries and thrillers, and was co-editor of the three ''Fresh Blood'' anthologies promoting new British crime writing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=crimetime.co.uk )〕 He also lectures on crime writing at the University of Cambridge.〔 In 2007 he was made a Patron of the Essex Book Festival and ran his Creative Crime Writing course at the Lavenham Literary Festivals in 2009 and 2013. Working with the Margery Allingham Society he has completed the Albert Campion novel left unfinished on the death of Allingham's widower, Philip Youngman Carter in 1969. ''Mr Campion's Farewell'' was published in April 2014. A second Campion "continuation" novel followed in 2015 and a third is expected in 2016. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Ripley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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