Jean Bowden, whose mystery novel
The Fetish Murders written as "Avon Curry"
I reviewed here, died earlier this month. A reader of this blog who apparently was one of her neighbors was kind enough to post a comment on the review for
The Fetish Murders to let me know. Later, in trying to locate her obituary, I found this post at
The Gumshoe Site:
Jean Bowden died peacefully on November 04 in London, UK. The
former book editor wrote more than 100 novels (ranging from historical
to romance to suspense to detective mystery) under 10 different
pseudonyms (Jennifer Bland, Avon Curry, Lee Mackenzie, and Barbara Annandale
among others) before her retirement on her 90th birthday in 2010. Her
first book was non-fiction; GREY TOUCHED WITH SCARLET (1959;
reprinted-issued and retitled NURSES AT WAR, 2015) about the true story
of the experiences of nurses in the Second World War. As Tessa Barclay,
she authored a series about amateur detective Crown Prince Gregory of
Hirtenstein, and the last Gregory novel, DIAMONDS IN DISGUISE (Severn
2010), was also her very last novel. She was 96.
Sorry to hear she has gone but sounds like she had, what the Brits would call, a 'very good innings'.
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