John Foster Straker was born in Kent and educated at Framlingham College. He served in the British Army during the Second World War. He was a mathematics teacher and headmaster until his retirement in 1978. |
Titles and year of publication:
1) Postman's Knock | 1954 |
2) Pick Up the Pieces | 1955 |
3) The Ginger Horse | 1956 |
4) A Gun to Play With | 1956 |
5) Goodbye, Aunt Charlotte! | 1958 |
6) Hell Is Empty | 1958 |
7) Death of a Good Woman | 1961 |
8) Murder for Miss Emily | 1961 |
9) A Coil of Rope | 1962 |
10) Final Witness | 1963 |
11) The Shape of Murder | 1964 |
12) Ricochet | 1965 |
13) Miscarriage of Murder | 1967 |
14) Sin and Johnny Inch | 1968 |
15) A Man Who Cannot Kill | 1969 |
16) Tight Circle | 1970 |
17) A Letter for Obi | 1971 |
18) A Pity It Wasn't George | 1971 |
19) The Goat | 1972 |
20) Arthurs' Night | 1976 |
21) Swallow Them Up | 1977 |
22) Death on a Sunday Morning | 1978 |
23) Countersnatch | 1980 |
24) Another Man's Poison | 1983 |
25) A Choice of Victims | 1984 |