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David Wishart


Born
in Arbroath, Scotland
January 01, 1952

Website

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Historical crime writer David Wishart was born in Arbroath, Scotland. He studied Classics - Latin and Greek - at Edinburgh University and after graduation taught for four years in a secondary school.

He then retrained as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and worked abroad for eleven years, in Kuwait, Greece and Saudi Arabia. He returned to Scotland in 1990 and now lives with his family in Carnoustie, mixing writing with teaching EFL and study skills at Dundee University.

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Combine Editions

Average rating: 4.16 · 7,179 ratings · 481 reviews · 57 distinct works • Similar authors
Ovid (Marcus Corvinus, #1)
3.89 avg rating — 898 ratings — published 1995 — 22 editions
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Germanicus (Marcus Corvinus...
4.01 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 1997 — 14 editions
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Sejanus (Marcus Corvinus, #3)
4.24 avg rating — 408 ratings — published 1998 — 14 editions
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Old Bones (Marcus Corvinus,...
4.15 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions
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The Lydian Baker (Marcus Co...
4.03 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions
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Last Rites (Marcus Corvinus...
4.20 avg rating — 319 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions
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A Vote for Murder (Marcus C...
4.18 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions
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Parthian Shot (Marcus Corvi...
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White Murder (Marcus Corvin...
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Illegally Dead (Marcus Corv...
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Series by David Wishart

Ovid Germanicus Sejanus The Lydian Baker Old Bones Last Rites White Murder
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“...the guy might be a cold-blooded amoral sadistic killer and a cartload of tiles short of a watertight roof, but there was nothing wrong with his intelligence. [Caligula in Marcus Corvinus's eyes]”
― David Wishart, Finished Business
tags: ancient-rome, caligula, series
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“My tongue tasted like a gladiator's jockstrap [Marcus Corvinus after a night out]”
― David Wishart, Ovid
tags: amateur-detective, ancient-rome
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“These pastoral-poet guys with their bleating goats and oaten pipes can stuff their phalaecean hendecasyllabics where the sun don't shine.”
― David Wishart, In at the Death
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The History Book ...: VICKI'S 50 BOOKS READ IN 2011 125 181 Jan 02, 2012 02:59PM  
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