Patrick Alexander (writer)

Patrick Alexander (1926 – 1997^[1] or 2003^[2]) was a British novelist, thriller writer, journalist and screenwriter.

His novel Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal won the Crime Writers' Association "John Creasey Memorial Award"^[3] and was filmed in 1981 as Le Professionnel starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. Stephen Hunter admits that Alexander's novel inspired his own novel Dead Zero and questions where the inspiration ends and the theft of Alexander's idea begins.^[2]

Alexander was a chess fanatic; people in his novels often share his enthusiasm for the game. Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal features a "considerable description of a tournament" that chess player Stewart Reuben had organised.^[4]

Bibliography

Novels

Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal (1976)
Show Me A Hero (1979)
Soldier On The Other Side (1983)
Ryfka (1988)

Screenplays

Studio One (TV series) (1948)
Der Verdammte (1957) (German TV movie)
Passport to Shame (1958)
De Veroordeelde (1959) (Dutch TV movie)

External links

Patrick Alexander at IMDb

References

^ "Alexander, Patrick". Johnson and Alcock, literary agents. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012.
^ ^a ^b Hunter, Stephen (2010). Dead Zero. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781439149935.
^ "The John Creasey Dagger". Archived from the original on 15 November 2013.
^ Reuben, Stewart (October 1983). "Chess in Fiction". Chess. 48–49: 126.

[1] "Alexander, Patrick". Johnson and Alcock, literary agents. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012.

[Hunter_(2010)-2] Hunter, Stephen (2010). Dead Zero. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781439149935.

[3] "The John Creasey Dagger". Archived from the original on 15 November 2013.

[4] Reuben, Stewart (October 1983). "Chess in Fiction". Chess. 48–49: 126.

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