Fear Is the Key is a narrative thriller novel by a Scottish author who died in this year?
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Fear Is the Key Fear Is the Key is a 1961 first-person narrative thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean.
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Alistair MacLean Alistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: "Alasdair MacGill-Eain" ; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. His works include "The Guns of Navarone", "Ice Station Zebra" and "Where Eagles Dare" – all three were made into popular films. He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart.
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Anne Eyre Worboys Anne Eyre Worboys (1920 – June 2007) was a New Zealand-British writer of 40 romance and suspense novels. She also signed her novels as Annette Eyre and Anne Worboys, and under the pseudonym of Vicky Maxwell. In 1977, her novel "Every Man A King" (a.k.a. "Rendezvous with Fear") won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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Robert Monro Robert Monro (died 1680), was a famous Scottish General, from the Clan Munro of Ross-shire, Scotland. He held command in the Swedish army under Gustavus Adolphus during Thirty Years' War. He also fought for the Scottish Covenanters during the Bishop's Wars in Scotland and commanded the Scottish Covenanter army during the Irish Confederate Wars. He was the author of a diary recounting his military experiences during the Thirty Years' War, published as "Monro, His Expedition With the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys".
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Hector C. Macpherson Hector Carsewell Macpherson {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'FRSE', '4': "} (16 October 1851 – 17 October 1924) was a prolific Scottish writer and journalist who published books, pamphlets and articles on history, biography, politics, religion, and other subjects.
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Gordon Burn Gordon Burn (16 January 1948 – 17 July 2009) was an English writer born in Newcastle upon Tyne and the author of four novels and several works of non-fiction.
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Grace Kennedy (writer) Grace Kennedy (1782 – 28 February 1825) was a Scottish writer. She was the fourth daughter of Robert Kennedy of Pinmore, county Ayr, and Robina, daughter of John Vans Agnew, of Barnbarrow, county Galloway. She was born at Pinmore in Ayrshire, but at an early age moved to Edinburgh. She wrote novels of a religious tendency which were very popular in their day. By 1920, they were very little read. She is best known as the author of "Father Clement" (1823), an anti-Roman Catholic novel, which ran through some dozen editions and was translated into most of the languages of Europe. She was writing Philip Colville, a Covenanter's Story when she died. Her published works consist of:
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Norman Harper Norman Harper (born 7 September 1957) is an author, book editor, journalist and broadcaster, and for 27 years was a writer, features editor, and latterly leader-writer and columnist with the Scottish newspaper, the "Press and Journal". He is the author of the successful "Stronach" book series and "Spik o the Place",
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J. T. McIntosh James Murdoch MacGregor, (14 February 1925 – 2008) was a Scottish journalist and author best known for writing science fiction under the pen name J.T. McIntosh.
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Night Without End Night Without End is a thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, first published in 1959. The author has been complimented for the excellent depiction of the unforgiving Arctic environment; among others, the "Times Literary Supplement" gave it strongly favorable notices when it came out.
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Michael Scott (novelist) Michael Scott (30 October 1789 – 7 November 1835) was a Scottish author and autobiographer who wrote under the pseudonym Tom Cringle.
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Paul John Dykes Paul John Dykes is a Scottish author, scriptwriter and documentary producer.
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Allan Guthrie Allan Guthrie (born Allan Buchan 5 June 1965) is a Scottish literary agent, author and editor of crime fiction. He was born in Orkney, but has lived in Edinburgh for most of his adult life. His first novel, "Two-Way Split", was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award, and it won the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2007. His second novel, "Kiss Her Goodbye", was nominated for an Edgar Award, an Anthony Award, and a Gumshoe Award.
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The Dark Crusader The Dark Crusader is a 1961 thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. The book was initially written under the pseudonym Ian Stuart and later under his true name. It was released in the United States under the title: The Black Shrike.
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Pat McIntosh Pat McIntosh is a Scottish writer of historical mystery fiction and fantasy.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are "Treasure Island", "Kidnapped", "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," and "A Child's Garden of Verses".
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Sarah Broom Macnaughtan Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (26 October 1864 – 24 July 1916) was a Scottish novelist. During the outbreak of the First World War, she volunteered with the Red Cross Society and was sent to Russia and eventually Armenia. She wrote extensively about the plight of the Armenian refugees of the Armenian Genocide. She died due to an illness she contracted while abroad.
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Annie S. Swan Annie Shepherd Swan (8 July 1859 – 17 June 1943) was a Scottish journalist, novelist and story writer. She used her maiden name for most of her literary career, but also wrote as David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett Smith. She was a popular writer of romantic fiction for young women during the Victorian era and published more than 200 novels, serials, short stories and other fiction between 1878 and her death in 1943.
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Tormod Caimbeul Tormod Caimbeul, (7 October 1942 – 2 May 2015) was a Scottish Gaelic novelist, poet, author of children's literature, and translator. He was known by his nickname "Tormod a' Bhocsair". He is recognised as one of the most important Gaelic writers of the twentieth century.
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The Executioners (MacDonald novel) The Executioners is a classic, dark psychological thriller novel written by John D. MacDonald, published in 1957. It was filmed twice under the title "Cape Fear", once in 1962 and again in 1991.
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The Key (2001 book) The Key is a book by American horror author Whitley Strieber that was first self-published by Strieber in January 2001. An expanded edition called "The Key: A True Encounter" was published as a trade paperback by Tarcher/Penguin in May 2011. The book centers around a conversation Strieber claims to have had with a mysterious visitor to his hotel room in the early morning hours of June 6, 1998, while on a book tour in Toronto. The man did not identify himself, and in "The Key" Strieber refers to the man as the Master of the Key.
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Stuart Hood Stuart Clink Hood (17 December 1915 – 31 January 2011) was a Scottish novelist, translator and a former British television producer and Controller of BBC Television.