The Second Man

The Second Man
1983 edition (Garland publishing)
Author	Edward Grierson
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Crime
Publisher	Chatto and Windus
Publication date	1956
Media type	Print

The Second Man is a 1956 crime novel by the British writer Edward Grierson.^[1] It won the Gold Dagger award of the Crime Writers' Association.

Synopsis[]

A new female barrister Marion Kerrison defends a man accused of murdering his aunt to get his hands of her jewels.^[2]

Adaptation[]

It was adapted for a 1959 episode of the American television series Playhouse 90 that starred James Mason, Diana Wynyard, Margaret Leighton and Hugh Griffith.^[3]

References[]

^ Reilly p.70
^ White p.172
^ Roberts p.214

Bibliography[]

Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
Roberts, Jerry. Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
White, Terry. Justice Denoted: The Legal Thriller in American, British, and Continental Courtroom Literature. Praeger, 2003.

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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