Skinner by Rae, Hugh C - 1971

Penguin Books, Great Britain, 1971. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Hugh Crauford Rae, aka James Albany, Robert Crawford, R B Houston, Caroline Crosby, Stuart Stern (with S Ungar), Jessica Stirling (with Margaret M Coghlan)Hugh Crauford Rae was born on November 22, 1935 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, son of Isobel and Robert Rae. He published his first stories aged 11 in the Robin comic, winning a cricket bat the same year in a children’s writing competition. After graduating from secondary school, he worked as an assistant in the antiquarian department of John Smith's bookshop. At work, he met her future wife, Elizabeth. Published since 1963, he started to wrote suspense novels as Hugh C. Rae, but he also used the pseudonyms of Robert Crawford, R.B. Houston, Stuart Stern (with S. Ungar) and James Albany. On 1973, his novel "The Shooting Gallery" was nominee by the Edgar Award. On 1974, he wrote the first few romance novels with Peggie Coghlan, using the popular… Read More