R.D. Wingfield
Rodney Wingfield was born in the East End of London within screaming distance of the scenes of the Jack the Ripper murders. Until 1970 he worked in the sales office of an international oil company, writing crime plays for radio in his spare time. The success of his radio work meant the day job had to go, and he became a full-time writer. His plays have been broadcast all over the world and translated into many languages.
In addition to thrillers and serials he has written many comedy scripts for Kenneth Williams, star of the Carry On films.
R.D. Wingfield died on 31st July 2007 after a long battle with cancer.
Nominations
1996: Mystery Writers of America EDGAR AWARD. Finalist for Best Paperback Original (HARD FROST)
1996 Edgar Finalist for Best Novel
Books
A Killing Frost
The discovery of two teenage girls’ bodies and a video of a snuff movie showing the death of one of the victims leaves Detective Inspector Jack Frost in a race against time before the killer can strike again.
Winter Frost
Winter in Denton is cold, bleak and a busy time for Detective Inspector Jack Frost whose unsolved crime figures are mounting as he struggles to bring them down in the face of manpower shortages and budget cuts.
Hard Frost
A young boy is found dead in a rubbish sack, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy of the same age, Bobby Kirby, is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. Enter Detective Inspector Jack Frost, scruffy and insubordinate, foul-mouthed, intuitive and fearless.
Night Frost
A serial killer is terrorizing the senior citizens of Denton, and the local police are succumbing to a flu epidemic. Tired and demoralized, the force has to contend with a seemingly perfect young couple suffering arson attacks and death threats, a suspicious suicide, burglaries, pornographic videos, poison-pen letters...
A Touch of Frost
Detective Inspector Jack Frost, officially on duty, is nevertheless determined to sneak off to a colleague's leaving party. But first the corpse of a well-known local junkie is found blocking the drain of a Denton public lavatory - and then, when Frost attempts to join the revels later on, the nubile daughter of a wealthy businessman is reported missing.
Frost at Christmas
Ten days to Christmas and Tracey Uphill, aged eight, has not come home from Sunday school. Her mother, a young prostitute, is desperate. Enter Detective Inspector Jack Frost, sloppy, scruffy and insubordinate. To help him investigate the case of the missing child, Frost has been assigned a new partner, the Chief Constable's nephew.
R.D. Wingfield/ James Henry
James Henry is a pseudonym of two writers.
James Gurbutt is a publisher and editor at Corsair Books. Before that he was Associate Publisher at Harvill Secker, publishing writers such as Henning Mankell and Haruki Murakami.
Henry Sutton is the author of six novels under his own name, and his latest, ‘Get Me Out of Here' has been published by Harvill Secker in January 2010.
He is the Books Editor of the Daily Mirror and teaches creative writing at the UEA.
Books
Fatal Frost
April 1982. Detective Sergeant Frost is having to cope with a spate of criminal activity. A burglar is robbing the affluent houses of Denton, a gang of teenage muggers are on the loose and Harry Baskin, the local crimelord, has opened a massage parlour, where the punters can get more than just a rubdown.
First Frost
It is Denton in the recession hit eighties and Detective Sergeant Jack Frost is about to lose his `guv'nor', Inspector Bert Williams. For the newly-installed Superintendent Mullett, Williams's retirement cannot come quickly enough.
