title: Mat Coward
text: # Mat Coward
  
  Mat Coward est un écrivain britannique, auteur de roman policier.
  
  ## Biographie
  
  En 2000, il publie son premier roman Up and Down, premier volume d'une série consacrée à Don Packham, inspecteur-détective, et Frank Mitchell, policier, à Londres.
  
  Il publie de nombreuses nouvelles de littérature policière et pour la jeunesse. À deux reprises, il est nommé pour le prix Edgar-Allan-Poe de la meilleure nouvelle.
  
  ## Œuvre
  
  ### Romans
  
  **Série Don Packham et Frank Mitchell**
  
  * Up and Down (2000)
  * In and Out (2001)
  * Over and Under (2004)
  * Deep and Crisp (2004)
  * Open and Closed (2005)
  
  **Autres romans**
  
  * The Soother's Boy (2008)
  * Acts of Destruction (2009)
  
  ### Nouvelles
  
  * 1993 History Repeats Itself, and It Doesn't Even Say Pardon
  * 1994 The Hampstead Vegetable Heist
  * 1994 Do the World a Favour
  * 1994 Cold Calling
  * 1994 The Set-up Man
  * 1994 Clean and Bright
  * 1995 Do You Know this Man?
  * 1995 Those Things
  * 1995 No Night by Myself
  * 1996 Bits
  * 1997 Corroboration
  * 1997 Nice People
  * 1998 Not a Minute on the Day
  * 1998 Where the Cat Came in
  * 1998 Old Sultan
  * 1998 Talk to Me
  * 1999 Here, Fluffy!
  * 1999 We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years
  * 1999 Nowhere to Be Found
  * 1999 The Monkey Puzzle
  * 1999 Tomorrow's villain
  * 1999 Happs!
  * 2000 We All Saw It
  * 2000 Twelve of the Little Buggers
  * 2000 Three Nil
  * 2000 Jilly's Fault
  * 2000. Great Days, Eh Lads?
  * 2000 Strikers
  * 2000 Nice Place
  * 2000 Under the Circumstances
  * 2000 Tall Man, Large Cat
  * 2000 The Shortest Distance
  * 2000 But Poor Men Pay for All
  * 2000 Now I Know Its Name
  * 2001 The Dog's Route
  * 2001 So Where've You Buried the Missus Then, Paddy?
  * 2001 Reason to Believe
  * 2001 And What Can They Show, or What Reasons Give?
  * 2001 Missing the Cat
  * 2001 The Second Question
  * 2001 You Again
  * 2002 If All Is Dark
  * 2002 Time Spent in Reconnaissance
  * 2002 Early Retirement
  * 2002 Little Green Card
  * 2002 One Box of Books
  * 2002 You Can Jump
  * 2002 And the Buttocks Gleamed by Night
  * 2002 Back to the Land
  * 2002 Too Subtle for Me
  * 2003 I Ain't Drunk, I'm Just Drinkin
  * 2003 Be Lucky
  * 2003 Remote Viewing
  * 2003 Too Hot to Die
  * 2003 Offenders
  * 2003 By Hand or by Brain
  * 2003 The Cat's Mother
  * 2003 Bloody Victims
  * 2003 Persons Reported
  * 2004 The Hope of the World
  * 2004 Room To Move
  * 2005 One Hand One Bounce
  * 2006 Jizz
  * 2008 Losing the Audience
  * 2015 On Borrowed Time
  
  ### Recueils de nouvelles
  
  * Do the World a Favour and Other Stories (2003)
  * The Last Noel (2004)
  * So Far, So Near (2007)
  * You Can Jump and Other Stories (2012)
  
  ### Autres ouvrages
  
  * Cannibal Victims Speak Out (1995)
  * Classic Radio Comedy (2003)
  
  ## Prix et distinctions
  
  ### Nominations
  
  * Prix Edgar-Allan-Poe 2001 de la meilleure nouvelle pour Twelve Little Buggers
  * Prix Edgar-Allan-Poe 2016 de la meilleure nouvelle pour On Borrowed Time
  * Prix Macavity 2016 de la meilleure nouvelle pour On Borrowed Time
  