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The Ned Kelly is definitely the coolest of all the crime fiction awards, and if you think about it, it's the only one that's given for an entire continent.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: About Awards Continent Coolest Crime Crime Fiction Definitely Entire Fiction Given Kelly Only Think You

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I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Came Dead Few First Had Longer May Novel Pieces Proper Published Stories Well

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If you haven't read 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone', I reckon it's a pretty good place to start if you're new to me and my books.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Books Gone Good Good Place Me Morning New Place Pretty Pretty Good Read Reckon Start You

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'The Man in the High Castle' was not the first alternative history novel, nor even the first Nazis-win-the-war novel, but it is still probably the most influential book in the genre.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Alternative Book Castle Even First Genre High History Influential Man Most Nor Novel Still

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'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Best Castle High Man Novel Still

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Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Became Building Edward Fantasy George High Invented Known Less More More Or Less Morris Tolkien William Work

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Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Ancient Earth Explanation Fantasy Geographic Location Novels Offered Often Parallel Quite Set Sometimes Temporal Writers

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The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Cover David Delighted Did End Everyone Express First Hooked Immediately Me Mystery Novel Orient Peter Proper Read Recall Where Which You

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A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Bar Daughter Detective Fact Fell Find Gone Heart In Fact Inside Lies Locked Morning New Novel Off Out Problem Table Whether Which Who

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When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Across Book Gets Makes Mystery Room Solution Work You

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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