The idea of such an important place in literary history being gutted and converted into multiple residences, however, roused outrage in the crime writing, academic, theater, and motion picture ...communities. To fight the Waverly Borough Council's deci- sion, John Gibson, a Doyle scholar who won an "Edgar" in 1984 for his Doyle bibliography and a chartered surveyor conveniently experienced in the legalities of development, co-founded the Undershaw Preservation Trust, aided by the patronage of Mark Gatiss, the co-creator of the BBC's Sherlock (2010). After the petition reached the University of Oklahoma, I, as president of the International Association of Crime Writers, brought the cause to the attention of our global membership, and soon there was a listing of "Crime Writ- ers for Undershaw," signed by mystery writers from dozens of countries.
...some of those mentioned were not translated into English, but my correspondents hoped these writers would soon be earning more acclaim. An Austrian and member of Das Syndikat, the German-language ...crime writers' association, Naber is an actor, journalist, playwright, lyricist, theater director, and documentary screenwriter. According to the publisher, Gmeiner Verlag, Katz is the "intuitive freak" of the crime-solving pair, while Mayer is the "stoic pragmatist," inverting the usual sexual clichés and creating an investigative "dream team."
...ongoing are the more than one hundred anthologies of mystery and suspense stories by various publishers that began when Simon & Schuster approached Hitchcock to put his name on a book soon after ...the show began. George Baxt (who had worked in Hollywood) did a baker's dozen of movie star mysteries (1984- 97) with The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case as his second.\n I made no attempt to reproduce the "real" Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, or Kim Novak, but followed Kaminsky's lead with movie stars and stuck to their public images. A recent novel by Nicola Ipson, Fear in the Sun, attempts a more accurate portrayal, mixing a murder mystery with a meeting between writer Josephine Tey, Hitch, and his wife, Alma, as they adapted a Tey novel into the film Young and Innocent (1937).
