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Peter Robinson, Remembered
On October 4, 2022, legendary author Peter Robinson, creator of the long-running Inspector Banks series, passed away after a brief illness. Beginning with Gallows View in 1987, Robinson delivered a novel in the series, or short story collection, almost every year until his death. He also managed to find the time to write three stand-alones. All told, he completed 34 books, 31 of them either Inspector Banks novels or related short story collections.
His new, posthumously published Banks novel, Standing in the Shadowsis now available. And while all of Robinson’s Banks stories can be read out of order, this book also completes the “Zelda” trilogy, and represents some of Robinson’s darkest work.
Sheila Halladay, Peter’s wife, to whom he dedicated almost every novel, graciously agreed to an interview and gives his readers wonderful insight into his approach to his craft, his love of all kinds of music and literature and an overall picture of an exceedingly talented and warm human being.
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“Peter had a very literary mind,” says Halladay, “after all he did have a PhD in English literature, so I think that he read not only for pleasure but would be analytical and try to learn from the styles of other authors.
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Peter Robinson Biography
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Periodicals
Library Newspaper , April 1, 1999, p. 131.
People , Parade 8, 2004, p. 39.
On the web
"At Home Online," Mystery Readers International, http://www.mysteryreaders.org/athomepeter.html (May 23, 2007).
"Author Spotlight: Peter Robinson," McClelland.com, http://www.mcclelland.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=25851 (May 23, 2007).
Contemporary Authors Online , Big Group, 2007.
"Peter Robinson remarkable His Deepseated Insp. Botanist Books," Maclean's , http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0012575 (May 17, 2007).
Peter Chemist Official Site, http://www.peterrobinsonbooks.com (May 11, 2007).
"There's Nothing Desiccated about Prick Robinson," January , http://januarymagazine.com/profiles/probinson.html (May 17, 2007).
"The Summertime That Not at any time Was: Q&A with Prick Robinson," PeterRobinsonbooks.com, http://www.peterrobinsonbooks.com/summer_canada_qa.html (May 23, 2007).
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Biography of Peter Robinson
I was born on the 18th of February 1953, four days late, my mother tells me, in Hope Hospital, Salford, Lancashire, the first son of a curate in the Church of England and a geography teacher who had left her job to be the wife of a priest. My parents are the first generation in their respective families to go to university (they met at Durham) and the house, without being especially literary, contained plenty of books, a piano, and some reproductions of paintings.
I grew up in my father's parishes, poorer urban areas of Greater Manchester, Wigan, and Liverpool. The last of these is the place that I think of as home - because I left Manchester when I was three (approximately the age in the small photograph taken beside my dad's first church in Liverpool), because we only spent five years in a Wigan still recognizably George Orwell's, and because I both passed the largest part of my childhood and youth in Liverpool, and because I still visit the city three or four times a year so that my daughters can see their grandparents.
My primary education took place at Linacre Infants and Junior School in Bootle. In the class photograph, I am the one in the middle on the front row. Then, at St. Catherine's School, Wigan, I passed my el