The Colour of Murder

The Colour of Murder
First edition
Author	Julian Symons
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Crime
Publisher	Collins Crime Club
Publication date	1957
Media type	Print
Pages	224
ISBN	1464210896

The Colour of Murder is a 1957 crime novel by the British writer Julian Symons.^[1] It was awarded the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers' Association for that year.^[2] It was republished by 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[]

^ Bargainnier, Earl F. Twelve Englishmen of Mystery. Popular Press, 1984. p. 209. ISBN 0879722495.
^ Winks, Robin W. & Corrigan, Maureen. Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 2. Charles Scribner's, 1998. p. 902. ISBN 0684805197.

Bibliography[]

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

v t 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) by Mary Kelly (1961) 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) by Ross Macdonald (1965) A Long Way to Shiloh by Lionel Davidson (1966) by Emma Lathen (1967) by Peter Dickinson (1968) by Peter Dickinson (1969)
1970–1979	by Joan Fleming (1970) by James H. McClure (1971) The Levanter by Eric Ambler (1972) by Robert Littell (1973) 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	by H. R. F. Keating (1980) Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith (1981) The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey (1982) by John Hutton (1983) by B. M. Gill (1984) 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) 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) by Frances Fyfield (2008) by William Brodrick (2009)
2010–present	by Belinda Bauer (2010) by Tom Franklin (2011) by Gene Kerrigan (2012) by Mick Herron (2013) by Wiley Cash (2014) Life or Death by Michael Robotham (2015) by Bill Beverly (2016) The Dry by Jane Harper (2017) by (2018) by M. W. Craven (2019) by Michael Robotham (2020) by Chris Whitaker (2021)

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