Anthony Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 10 (1995) Winner
B. A. Pike
ビー・エー・パイク
B. A. Paiku
Aliases:
Barry Pike
Pen Names:
BAP（Pseudonym used for setting Listener cryptic crosswords）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
Career
- Occupations
- writer, chairman of the Margery Allingham Society, authority on Golden Age detective writers
- Active Years
- 1963-
- Affiliations
- Margery Allingham Society
- Memberships
- Margery Allingham Society
- Influenced By
- Margery Allingham, Gladys Mitchell, Dorothy L. Sayers
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Campion's Career: A Study of the Novels of Margery Allingham
1987 Literary criticismA study of the novels of Margery Allingham, focusing on the Campion detective series.
Margery AllinghamDetective fictionGolden Age
Murder Takes a Holiday
1989 AnthologyAn anthology of murder stories.
MurderHolidayCrime fiction
Detective Fiction: The Collector's Guide
1988 Collector's guideA collector's guide to detective fiction, co-authored with John Cooper.
Detective fictionFirst editionsCollecting
Murder in Miniature: and Other Stories
1992 Short story compilationCompilation of short stories by Leo Bruce.
Short storiesMurderMystery
Detective Fiction: The Collector's Guide, 2nd edition
1994 Collector's guideSecond edition of the collector's guide to detective fiction, co-authored with John Cooper.
Detective fictionFirst editionsCollecting
Artists in Crime: Illustrated Survey of Crime Fiction First Edition Dust Wrappers, 1920–70
1995 Illustrated surveyAn illustrated survey of crime fiction first edition dust wrappers from 1920-70.
Crime fictionDust wrappersIllustrations
Bibliography
- Campion's Career: A Study of the Novels of Margery Allingham (1987)
- Murder Takes a Holiday (1989)
- Detective Fiction: The Collector's Guide (with John Cooper, 1988)
- Murder in Miniature: and Other Stories (1992)
- Detective Fiction: The Collector's Guide, 2nd edition (with John Cooper, 1994)
- Artists in Crime: Illustrated Survey of Crime Fiction First Edition Dust Wrappers, 1920–70 (1995)
Legacy
Chairman of the Margery Allingham Society and an authority on Margery Allingham and other Golden Age detective writers such as Gladys Mitchell and Dorothy L. Sayers.
Trivia
- Under the pseudonym BAP, set seven Listener cryptic crosswords between 1963-1969.
- Gave talks on Margery Allingham on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour in 2004.
- Spoke at Bodies from the Library events at the British Library in 2015 and 2016.