Frederic Lindsay:
An Independent Novelist
(Oct 28, 2017)
There are any number of Scottish-born authors of detective fiction, a few full-time and very successful, but the best of them all is no longer with us, Frederic Lindsay. Not all his novels are detective thrillers but all represent literature of the highest quality rather than the best of pulp fiction. Lindsay was both highly respected by colleagues and publishers and partly ignored by the popular press.
[..] As a writer he was chased and published by the biggest and best publishers in the land, Andre Deutsch being one of them, such was the standing he enjoyed among the choosiest of choosy eponymous publishers. At the time of his sudden death, aged 79, Lindsay’s novels had just been introduced to an American audience. Fate takes no prisoners.
[...] Brond, was published in 1983 by Edinburgh’s Loanhead publishers MacDonald, hailed by critics as “a Glaswegian Day of the Jackal” and “like a political thriller written by Kafka”, a novel still held high in the list of the ‘Best Scottish Novels Ever Published’.
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Also by Grouse Beater:
(May 6, 2014)
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