title: Julian Symons
text: # Julian Symons
  
  Julian Symons (Londra, 30 maggio 1912 – Kent, 23 novembre 1994) è stato uno scrittore, critico letterario e poeta britannico. Dal suo romanzo The Man Who Killed Himself del 1967 è stato tratto il film Arthur! Arthur! del 1969.
  
  ## Opere
  
  ### Romanzi
  
  * The Immaterial Murder Case (1945)
  * A Man Called Jones (1947)
  * Bland Beginning (1949)
     * I falsi di Amberside, I Classici del Giallo Mondadori n. 497, 1986
  * The Thirty-First of February (1950)
     * Il 31 febbraio, I Classici del Giallo Mondadori, 2014
  * The Broken Penny (1953)
  * The Narrowing Circle (1954)
  * The Paper Chase (1956) (alias Bogue's Fortune)
  * The Colour of Murder (1957) (vincitore nel 1957 del Gold Dagger Award)
     * Un quadrato di seta nera
  * The Gigantic Shadow (1958) (alias The Pipe Dream)
  * The Progress of a Crime (1960) (vincitore nel 1961 dell'Edgar Award)
  * The Killing of Francie Lake (1962) (alias The Plain Man)
  * The End of Solomon Grundy (1964)
  * The Belting Inheritance (1965)
  * The Man Who Killed Himself (1967)
  * The Man Whose Dreams Came True (1968)
  * The Man Who Lost His Wife (1970)
  * The Players and the Game (1972)
  * The Plot Against Roger Rider (1973)
  * A Three-Pipe Problem (1975)
  * The Blackheath Poisonings (1978)
     * False verità, I Classici del Giallo Mondadori n. 704, 1994
  * Sweet Adelaide (1980)
  * The Detling Murders (1982) (alias The Detling Secret)
  * The Name of Annabel Lee (1983)
  * The Criminal Comedy of the Contented Couple (1985)
  * The Kentish Manor Murders (1988)
  * Death's Darkest Face (1990)
  * Something Like a Love Affair (1992)
  * Playing Happy Families (1994)
     * La famiglia felice, Il Giallo Mondadori n. 2508, 1997
  * A Sort of Virtue: A Political Crime Novel (1996)
  
  ### Racconti
  
  * Murder! Murder! (1961)
  * Francis Quarles Investigates (1965)
  * How to Trap a Crook (1977)
  * Great Detectives - Seven Original Investigations (1981)
  * The Tigers of Subtopia (1982)
  * Did Sherlock Holmes Meet Hercule... (1988)
  * The Man Who Hated Television (1995)
  * A Julian Symons Sherlockian Duet (2000)
  * The Detections of Francis Quarles (2006)
  