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Beginning in the mid-1980s, Miles turned to writing mystery fiction. His first series, written under his own name, featured Alan Saxon, a professional golfer-turned-amateur detective. After four books, Miles's publisher did not wish to continue the series, which only resumed after a hiatus of more
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series, Set in the late 1920s. Merlin is a bored young Welsh architect who seeks his fortune in the US, hopefully working for the famous
American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Merlin's strong sense of morality means that when crimes happen around him he won't just leave it to the police to solve!
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detectives, Inspector Robert
Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming, whose cases are invariably linked to the railways. Colbeck is a former barrister who is enthralled by the railways and marries a railwayman's daughter. Leeming, in contrast, detests travelling by train and yearns for the days of
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Miles has used three other pseudonyms: Martin Inigo, Conrad Allen and David
Garland. As Allen, he wrote about the private detectives George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, who operated aboard ocean liners of the early 20th century. There were eight books in this series, starting with
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Miles was born and educated in South Wales. He gained a degree in Modern
History from Oxford University and spent three years as a lecturer, before becoming a full-time writer. Miles's early work was as a scriptwriter for television and radio, including series such as
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series, featuring private detectives George Porter
Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, and set on board ocean liners of the early 1900s. This series has subsequently been reprinted credited to Edward Marston:
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series, featuring Ralph
Delchard and Gervase Bret, commissioners appointed by William the Conqueror, to look into the serious irregularities that come to light during the compilation of the
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series in 1999 featuring architect/detective
Christopher Redmayne and the puritan Constable Jonathan Bale. Six books were written in this series, with the last one,
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London. For this series, and for most of his subsequent writing, he adopted the pseudonym Edward
Marston, the name reflecting that of a real Elizabethan playwright,
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121:(1996). In 2019, Amazon in the U.S. was giving away the individual e-books of this series at no charge to Kindle Unlimited members.
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The City Hospital series included ten books, starting with
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1255:. The Crime Writers' Association. Archived from
1153:Valley Forge: A Novel of the American Revolution
82:and is now married to another mystery writer,
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226:(2007). As Garland he wrote novels about the
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804:Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel
24:(born 1940) is a Welsh writer of
1529:Writers of historical mysteries
1366:Herbert, Rosemary, ed. (1999).
1227:"An interview with Keith Miles"
1180:"The Many Roles of Keith Miles"
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720:Murder on the Brighton Express
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1325:"Not for Glory, Not for Gold"
845:War of the Spanish Succession
726:The Silver Locomotive Mystery
1482:"Miscellaneous publications"
744:The Stationmaster's Farewell
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786:A Christmas Railway Mystery
780:The Circus Train Conspiracy
222:(1999) and concluding with
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1137:American Revolutionary War
1002:Murder, Ancient and Modern
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606:The Stallions of Woodstock
600:The Serpents of Harbledown
588:The Dragons of Archenfield
501:(1995) (nominated for the
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636:The Elephants of Norwich
582:The Ravens of Blackwater
515:The Fair Maid of Bohemia
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1079:Murder on the Lusitania
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896:Instrument of Slaughter
875:A Very Murdering Battle
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557:The Princess of Denmark
220:Murder on the Lusitania
117:(1995) and ending with
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1109:Murder on the Salsette
630:The Owls of Gloucester
618:The Wildcats of Exeter
594:The Lions of the North
527:The Devil's Apprentice
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1097:Murder on the Caronia
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959:Shadow of the Hangman
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551:The Malevolent Comedy
545:The Counterfeit Crank
505:for Best Novel, 1996)
475:The Trip to Jerusalem
435:Murder in Perspective
251:The Honourable Member
206:The Railway Detective
143:William the Conqueror
1462:on 27 September 2018
1253:"History of the CWA"
1121:Murder on the Celtic
1006:Crippen & Landru
983:Rage of the Assassin
965:Steps to the Gallows
774:Signal for Vengeance
762:A Ticket to Oblivion
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509:The Laughing Hangman
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281:Bullet Hole
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419:Heart Rate
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