Bill Pronzini Editor & Author

Jack Adrian is an authority on popular and genre fiction in the twentieth century, and is the author of many books, including anthologies such as Strange Tales from the Strand, Detective Stories from the Strand (both OUP, 1991). and The Oxford Book of Historical Short Stories (OUP, 1994). Bill Pronzini is a well-known mystery and suspense writer of over forty novels, and is best known as the creator of the `Nameless Detective' series. He served as the first president of the Private Eye Writers of America, and won that organization's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.