![]() ![]() ![]() But I was in my late teens before I took to reading more modern crime fiction, starting with the American writer Erle Stanley Gardner and his main character, Perry Mason. And of course to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Later, in my early teens, I moved on to the adventure novels of Malcolm Saville, and then to nineteenth-century novels of history and adventure: Westward Ho! for example, and Peter the Whaler, Lorna Doone and so many others. 'Yes,' she replied, 'they are, aren’t they?'. I was drawn to them, I told her, because I'd thought horses were wonderful. It was a real joy for me, some years ago, actually to meet Josephine Pullein-Thompson (by then no longer writing but active in the PEN organisation) and have the chance to tell her how much her books had meant to me. Who were your literary heroes and influences as you were growing up?Īs a little girl I was ‘horse mad’ and so I read and re-read all the wonderful 'pony books' by Monica Edwards and the Pullein-Thompson sisters. Her latest book, The Murder's Apprentice, is the seventh in the Lizzie Martin series. She is the author of four popular detective series: Mitchell and Markby, Fran Varady, Campbell and Carter, and Lizzie Martin. ![]() ![]() Ann Granger was born in Portsmouth, went to university in London, and has lived in France, Zambia and Germany. ![]()
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