Mike Ripley
Mike Ripley was a crime fiction critic for the Daily Telegraph and then the Birmingham Post for 20 years, as well as a scriptwriter on the BBC’s series “Lovejoy”. As part of his obligatory mid-life crisis, he gave up life in the big city and retrained as an archaeologist, working mostly on Romano-British sites in East Anglia. At the age of 50 he had a stroke. He survived, recovered, wrote a book about it and served on the government’s Stroke Strategy Committee which reported in 2009.
Similar Authors: Margery Allingham, Karen Baugh Menuhin, Benedict Brown.
The Albert Campion Mysteries
Campion is one of the most well-known literary detectives, created by Margery Allingham. Long after her death, Mike Ripley wrote a new series based on the character.