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Keating, H.R.F, 1926 - 2011, crime writer
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1926 - 2011
History
H. R. F. Keating worked as a journalist on The Daily Telegraph, and was the crime books reviewer for The Times for fifteen years. He was also chairman of the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) (1970–71), chairman of the Society of Authors (1983–84) and president of the Detection Club (1985–2000). He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
In 1995, he received the George N. Dove Award, and in 1996 the CWA awarded him the Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding services to crime literature.
He wrote screenplays, was a reviewer and wrote a biography of Dame Agatha Christie.
In Kensington Gardens once... is a short story collection published in 1997, with illustrations by Gwen Mandley. Jack, The Lady Killer is a novel in verse published in 1999.