Nicolas Freeling

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Nicolas Freeling born Nicolas Davidson, (March 3, 1927 - July 20, 2003) was a British crime novelist, best known as the author of the Van der Valk series of detective novels, which became a popular British early 1970s TV series.

Freeling was born in London, but travelled widely, and ended his life at his long-standing home near Strasbourg. He had followed a variety of occupations, including the armed services and the catering profession. He began writing during a three-week prison sentence, after being convicted of stealing some food.^{[citation needed]}

Freeling's The King of the Rainy Country received a 1967 Edgar Award, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Novel. He also won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers' Association, and France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.

[edit] Works

[edit] Novels

Van de Valk series

• Love in Amsterdam (1962), aka Death in Amsterdam
• Because of the Cats (1963)
• Gun Before Butter (1963), aka Question of Loyalty
• Double-Barrel (1964)
• Criminal Conversation (1965)
• The King of the Rainy Country (1966)
• Strike Out Where Not Applicable (1967)
• Tsing-Boum! (1969)
• The Lovely Ladies (1971), aka Over the High Side
• A Long Silence (1972), aka Aupres de ma Blonde
• The Widow (1979)
• One Damn Thing After Another (1981), aka Arlette
• Sand Castles (1989)

Henri Castang series

• A Dressing of Diamonds (1974)
• What are the Bugles Blowing For? (1975), aka The Bugles Blowing
• Sabine (1976), aka Lake Isle
• The Night Lords (1978)
• Castang's City (1980)
• Wolfnight (1982)
• The Back of the North Wind (1983)
• No Part in Your Death (1984)
• Cold Iron (1986)
• Lady Macbeth (1988)
• Not as Far as Velma (1989)
• Those in Peril (1990)
• Flanders Sky (1992), aka The Pretty How Town
• " You Who Know"(1994)
• The Seacoast of Bohemia (1994)
• A Dwarf Kingdom (1996)

Other novels

• Valparaiso (1964)
• The Dresden Green (1966)
• This is the Castle (1968)
• Gadget (1977)
• A City Solitary (1984)
• One More River (1998)
• Some Day Tomorrow (1999)
• The Janeites (2002)

Non-fiction

• The Kitchen Book (1970)
• Cook Book (1972)
• The Village Book (2001)
• The Kitchen and the Cook (2002)

[edit] External links

• Freeling's obituary in The Guardian