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Richard Whittle

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Born

The United Kingdom

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https://playpitspark.wordpress.com/

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Thriller, Crime, Mystery

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Mainly personal experience. Strongly influenced by Robert Harris, Kate ...more

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Richard Whittle

Richard has been a policeman, diesel engine tester, university student and engineering geologist. Writing as Alan Frost he was shortlisted, from several hundred international writers, for the CWA (Crime Writers Association) Debut Dagger Award.

The Kindle edition of his first novel, Playpits Park, has been downloaded 6500 times.

Richard's novel THE MAN WHO PLAYED TRAINS is available on Amazon as a paperback and as a Kindle book.

Disambiguation: Please note that Richard is not the Richard Whittle who writes aircraft books.

Richard believes he discovered the power of the novel and his love of writing at the age of eleven when he read Paul Gallico’s novels The Snow Goose and Jenny. On his overseas trips many years later he ...more

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	The Man Who Played Trains 4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Playpits Park 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Keewatin 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Many years ago I resigned from the Bristol police and took a job as a diesel engine tester in a small Gloucestershire town. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to be a copper, it was simply that I wanted to be some kind of mechanical engineer even more.

I rented rooms in a house owned by an elderly lady, a two-room flat in an old extension on the back of her

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“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

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