Martin Fido
Martin Fido | |
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Born | True crime writing and broadcasting | 18 October 1939
Notable work | Murder After Midnight, LBC |
Martin Austin Fido (18 October 1939 – 2 April 2019) was a university professor,
After leaving
In 1983 he returned to England and became a freelance writer and broadcaster, specialising in true crime. He broadcast a weekly radio programme called Murder After Midnight on London's LBC Radio from 1987 to 2001, some of which were produced and released commercially on cassette and CD by his friend (and fellow LBC broadcaster) Paul Savory. Aside from his many true crime books he has also written illustrated biographies of Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde, and books on Agatha Christie, and Sherlock Holmes. He translated Louis Cazamian's Le Roman Social en Angleterre, and his play Let's Go Bajan! was performed successfully in Barbados and London.
A number of Murder After Midnight stories are available on iTunes with additional titles planned for early 2013 release.
In 2000 he settled in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA, to help his third wife (Karen, née Sandel, died October 2013) nurse her parents through their terminal illnesses, and from 2001 until his death he taught writing and research at Boston University.
Martin Fido died on 2 April 2019 of complications resulting from having suffered a fall.[3]
References
- ISBN 978-0586071793.
- ISBN 978-1-84454-797-5.
- ^ Obituary from Cape Cod Times. 2019