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Peter Abrahams (US Author)
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Edgar Award
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...
for best novel.
His literary influences are Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...
, Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world...
and Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald
Not to be confused with John D. MacDonaldRoss Macdonald is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar...
. Stephen King
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
has referred to him as "my favorite American suspense novelist".
Born in Boston, Abrahams previously lived in Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
and worked as a CBC
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
television producer
Television producer
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. He is currently living in Falmouth, Massachusetts
Falmouth, Massachusetts
Falmouth is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States; Barnstable County is coextensive with Cape Cod. The population was 31,531 at the 2010 census....
on Cape Cod
Cape Cod
Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States...
with his wife and children.
Echo Falls Mystery Series
Abrahams has started a series for younger readers called the Echo Falls Mysteries. There are three books in the series: Down the Rabbit HoleDown the Rabbit Hole (novel)
Down The Rabbit Hole is the first book in the Echo Falls mystery series by best selling crime novelist Peter Abrahams.This book is about the murder of Katherine Kovac and how 13-year-old Ingrid Levin-Hill catches the killer...
, Behind the Curtain
Behind the Curtain
Behind The Curtain is the second book in the Echo Falls mystery series by best selling crime novelist Peter Abrahams.- Description :Ingrid lives in a small community called Echo Falls. She's in the school soccer team and is in the drama club. Everything is normal until one day she sees’s what her...
, Into the Dark They are all based around teen super sleuth Ingrid Levin-Hill
Writing as Spencer Quinn, Abrahams is the author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries, including Dog On It, Thereby Hangs a Tail, To Fetch a Thief and The Dog Who Knew Too Much. These stories are told from the point of view of Chet, Bernie's canine partner in the Little Detective Agency.
It was not initially known that Abrahams was Quinn. It took some work by journalists to determine who "Quinn" really is. http://www.sarahweinman.com/confessions/2009/03/solving-the-mystery-of-spencer-quinns-true-identity.html
Chet has his own website www.chetthedog.com, and he's on Facebook.