The Colour of Murder

The Colour of Murder is a 1957

British Library Publishing in 2018 along with another Symons novel The Belting Inheritance

Plot

Unhappily married John Wilkins meets Sheila, an attractive young librarian. He fantasises about killing his wife, so he can leave her and start a new life with Sheila.

References

ISBN 0879722495
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ISBN 0684805197
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Bibliography

Walsdorf, John J. & Allen, Bonnie J. Julian Symons: A Bibliography. Oak Knoll Press, 1996.

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Gold Dagger Award
1955–1959

The Little Walls by Winston Graham (1955)

The Second Man by Edward Grierson (1956)

The Colour of Murder by Julian Symons (1957)

Someone from the Past by Margot Bennett (1958)

Passage of Arms by Eric Ambler (1959)

1960–1969

The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson (1960)

The Spoilt Kill by Mary Kelly (1961)

When I Grow Rich by Joan Fleming (1962)

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (1963)

The Perfect Murder by H. R. F. Keating (1964)

The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald (1965)

A Long Way to Shiloh by Lionel Davidson (1966)

Murder Against the Grain by Emma Lathen (1967)

Skin Deep by Peter Dickinson (1968)

A Pride of Heroes by Peter Dickinson (1969)

1970–1979

Young Man I Think You're Dying by Joan Fleming (1970)

The Steam Pig by James H. McClure (1971)

The Levanter by Eric Ambler (1972)

The Defection of A. J. Lewinter by Robert Littell (1973)

Other Paths to Glory by Anthony Price (1974)

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer (1975)

A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell (1976)

The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré (1977)

The Chelsea Murders by Lionel Davidson (1978)

Whip Hand by Dick Francis (1979)

1980–1989

The Murder of the Maharaja by H. R. F. Keating (1980)

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith (1981)

The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey (1982)

Accidental Crimes by John Hutton (1983)

The Twelfth Juror by B. M. Gill (1984)

Monkey Puzzle by Paula Gosling (1985)

Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell (1986)

A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine (1987)

Ratking by Michael Dibdin (1988)

The Wench Is Dead by Colin Dexter (1989)

1990–1999

Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill (1990)

King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine (1991)

The Way Through the Woods by Colin Dexter (1992)

Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell (1993)

The Scold's Bridle by Minette Walters (1994)

The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid (1995)

Popcorn by Ben Elton (1996)

Black & Blue by Ian Rankin (1997)

Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke (1998)

A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson (1999)

2000–2009

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (2000)

Sidetracked by Henning Mankell (2001)

The Athenian Murders by José Carlos Somoza (2002)

Fox Evil by Minette Walters (2003)

Blacklist by Sara Paretsky (2004)

Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason (2005)

Raven Black by Ann Cleeves (2006)

The Broken Shore by Peter Temple (2007)

Blood from Stone by Frances Fyfield (2008)

A Whispered Name by William Brodrick (2009)

2010–present

Blacklands by Belinda Bauer (2010)

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (2011)

The Rage by Gene Kerrigan (2012)

Dead Lions by Mick Herron (2013)

This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash (2014)

Life or Death by Michael Robotham (2015)

Dodgers by Bill Beverly (2016)

The Dry by Jane Harper (2017)

The Liar by Steve Cavanagh (2018)

The Puppet Show by M. W. Craven (2019)

Good Girl Bad Girl by Michael Robotham (2020)

We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker (2021)

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[1] ISBN 0879722495
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[2] ISBN 0684805197
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