Paula Gosling

Paula Gosling
Born	October 12, 1939 (1939-10-12) (age 72) Detroit, Michigan, United States
Occupation	Novelist
Genres	Crime, suspense, literary fiction
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Paula Gosling (1939 - ) is a US-born crime writer. She has lived in the UK since the 1960s. Gosling started her writing career as a copy-writer. She published her first novel, A Running Duck, in 1974. It won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year. She has also received the Gold Dagger for a subsequent book, Monkey Puzzle, in 1985. She is a past Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association.

A Running Duck (also published as Fair Game) has been adapted twice into films, once as a Sylvester Stallone vehicle, Cobra,^[1] and the second time as a film with Cindy Crawford entitled Fair Game.^[2]

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Jack Stryker series 1.2 Luke Abbott series 1.3 Blackwater Bay series 1.4 Other novels 2 References 3 External links

Bibliography

Jack Stryker series

• Monkey Puzzle (1985); Gold Dagger Award
• Backlash (1989)
• Ricochet (2002)

Luke Abbott series

• The Wychford Murders (1986)
• Death Penalties (1991)

Blackwater Bay series

• The Body in Blackwater Bay (1992)
• A Few Dying Words (1993)
• The Dead of Winter (1995)
• Death and Shadows (1998)
• Underneath Every Stone (2000)

Other novels

• A Running Duck (1974) (also published as Fair Game); John Creasey Award
• The Zero Trap (1979)
• Loser's Blues (1980) (also published as Solo Blues)
• Mind's Eye (1980) (writing as Ainslie Skinner) (also published as The Harrowing)
• The Woman in Red (1983)
• Hoodwink (1988)
• Cobra (1999)
• Tears of the Dragon (2004)

References

External links

• Paula Gosling at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Gosling, Paula
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Date of birth	October 12, 1939
Place of birth	Detroit, Michigan, United States
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