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John Wainwright


(John William Wainwright)
UK flag (1921 - 1995)

aka Jack Ripley

John William Wainwright was a rear gunner in World War II, after which he spent twenty years as a policeman in Yorkshire. He wrote eighty crime novels between 1965 and 1992, sometimes under the pseudonym 'Jack Ripley'.


Genres: Mystery
 
Series
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Lewis
   Death in a Sleeping City (1965)
   Talent for Murder (1967)
   Edge of Extinction (1968)
   Take-over Men (1969)
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Chief Inspector Lennox
   1. The Evidence I Shall Give (1974)
   2. Landscape with Violence (1975)
   3. Square Dance (1975)
   4. The Day of the Peppercorn Kill (1977)
   5. Pool of Tears (1977)
   6. Take Murder (1979)
   7. Spiral Staircase (1983)
   8. The Tenth Interview (1986)
   9. A Very Parochial Murder (1988)
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Inspector Lyle
   1. Brainwash (1979)
   2. Duty Elsewhere (1979)
   3. Dominoes (1980)
   4. The Man Who Wasn't There (1989)
   5. Hangman's Lane (1992)
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Novels
   Web of Silence (1968)
   The Big Tickle (1969)
   Prynter's Devil (1970)
   Davis Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1971) (as by Jack Ripley)
   Last Buccaneer (1971)
   Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away (1971) (as by Jack Ripley)
   Dig the Grave and Let Him Lie (1971)
   My Word, You Should Have Seen Us (1972) (as by Jack Ripley)
   My God, How the Money Rolls in (1972) (as by Jack Ripley)
   A Pride of Pigs (1973)
   Devil You Don't (1973)
   Cause for a Killing (1974)
   The Bastard (1976)
   Walther P.38 (1976)
   Acquittal (1976)
   Who Goes Next? (1976)
   Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (1977)
   Nest of Rats (1977)
   Thief of Time (1978)
   Death Certificate (1978)
   Jury People (1978)
   Tension (1979)
   Reluctant Sleeper (1979)
   Home is the Hunter (1979)
   The Eye of the Beholder (1980)
   Man of Law (1980)
   A Kill of Small Consequence (1980)
   Tainted Man (1980)
   Venus Fly-trap (1980)
   Anatomy of a Riot (1982)
   Distaff Factor (1982)
   Heroes No More (1983)
   Cul-de-sac (1984)
   The Forest (1984)
   Clouds of Guilt (1985)
   All Through the Night (1985)
   The Forgotten Murders (1987)
   Blind Brag (1988)
   Sabbath Morn (1993)
   Murder Story (1994)
   The Life and Times of Christmas Calvert... Assassin (1995)
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Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by John Wainwright
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The Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories (1985)
(The Mammoth Book of ...)
edited by
Herbert Van Thal
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Winter's Crimes 14 (1982)
edited by
Hilary Watson

Award nominations
1988 Macavity Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Tenth Interview


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