Paula Gosling (1939 - ) is an American born crime writer. She has lived in the UK since the 1960s. Gosling started her writing career as a copy-writer and published her first novel, A Running Duck, in 1974. This won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year and she has also received both the Gold Dagger for Monkey Puzzle in 1985. She is a past Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association.
Her novel A Running Duck, written in 1974 (also published as Fair Game), has been adapted twice into films, once as a Sylvester Stallone vehicle - Cobra and the second time as a film with Cindy Crawford entitled Fair Game.
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Bibliography
Jack Stryker series
- Monkey Puzzle (1985); Gold Dagger Award
- Backlash (1989)
- Ricochet (2002)
Luke Abbott series
- The Wychford Murders (1986)
- Death Penalties (1991)
Blackwater Bay series
- The Body in Blackwater Bay (1992)
- A Few Dying Words (1993)
- The Dead of Winter (1995)
- Death and Shadows (1998)
- Underneath Every Stone (2000)
Other novels
- A Running Duck (1974) (also published as Fair Game); John Creasey Award
- The Zero Trap (1979)
- Loser's Blues (1980) (also published as Solo Blues)
- Mind's Eye (1980) (writing as Ainslie Skinner) (also published as The Harrowing)
- The Woman in Red (1983)
- Hoodwink (1988)
- Cobra (1999)
- Tears of the Dragon (2004)
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