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Hugh C. Rae
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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 pseudonym Jessica Stirling. However, when she retired 7 years after the first book was published, he continued writing more than 30 on his own, and also as Caroline Crosby. His female pseudonyms first became widely known in 1999, when "The Wind from the Hills" was shortlisted for Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Widowed nine years ago, Hugh died on September 24, 2014 at the age of 78.
Full Series List in Order
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1 - A Few Small Bones = The House at Balnesmoor (Sep-1968)2 - The Shooting Gallery (Jan-1972)
Book List in Order: 13 titles
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Night Pillow
- Jun-1967
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It was nothing particularly out of the ordinary. An uncomplicated matter of rape. Well, not really quite that simple. You see, it all happened in a deserted field. There was no question of reporting the crime. Alice's brother confirmed this: after al...
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A Few Small Bones = The House at Balnesmoor
- Sep-1968
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Summer on the moors, and Norman Land makes a gruesome discovery near his country retreat. The bodies of two Glasgow schoolgirls are buried in the heather - and Inspector McGraig's investigation into the lives of this remote Highland community leads ...
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The Interview
- Jun-1969
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Stated First American Edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The book has mild bumps at its spine tips and rubs to its corners. Dust soiling to the edges of the upper page block. The dust jacket has mild wear to its spine tips and corn...
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The Shooting Gallery
- Jan-1972
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On a bleak, rainy autumn night, a sports car skids into the driveway of a hospital outside a small town near Glasgow. As it spins to a stop, the driver flees into the adjacent woods. In the passenger seat, the son of the town's most prominent citizen...
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Harkfast: The Making of the King
- May-1976
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The time is the mysterious twiligt age between the fall of Rome and the long night of the Dark Ages. The place is primitive Britain, where a magic power with roots in the dimmest reaches of the past makes its final stand against the forces of bloody ...
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The Travelling Soul
- Jan-1978
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IMMORTALITY OR SOMETHING LIKE IT IN THE SAFE TECHNOLIGISED WORLD OF THE FUTURE WHERE NICE PEOPLE TAKE THEIR ANTI DEATH SERUM AND BELIEVE WHAT THEY SEE ON TELEVISION-A PLACE WHERE SOULS ARE STILL UNCONQUERED-AND SECRETS THAT COULD DESTROY A CIVILIZATI...
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