A Complete State of Death

by John Gardner

1960 HARDCOVER

255 pages, Hardcover

First published June 26, 1969

About the author

Before coming an author of fiction in the early 1960s, John Gardner was variously a stage magician, a Royal Marine officer and a journalist. In all, Gardner has fifty-four novels to his credit, including Maestro, which was the New York Times book of the year. He was also invited by Ian Fleming’s literary copyright holders to write a series of continuation James Bond novels, which proved to be so successful that instead of the contracted three books he went on to publish some fourteen titles, including Licence Renewed and Icebreaker.

Having lived in the Republic of Ireland, the United States and the UK, John Gardner sadly died in August of 2007 having just completed his third novel in the Moriarty trilogy, Conan Doyle’s eponymous villain of the Sherlock Holmes series.

Reviews

[John]

I decided to read this because i had read OCTOBER LIGHT by the same author many years ago and still have happy memories of it, well it did not seem like a work by the same author to me, then I remembered , it was only the first few pages of OCTOBER LIGHT which were memorable to me with most of the book being rather stupid. This crime story novel was not the type of book i could ever like.