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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
Salisbury & Shearer
1 - Cockleburr = Pay As You Die (Sep-1969)2 - The Shroud Society (Dec-1969)
3 - Kiss the Boss Goodbye (Feb-1970)
4 - The Badger's Daughter (Jan-1971)
5 - Whip Hand (Mar-1972)
Book List in Order: 12 titles
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Cockleburr = Pay As You Die
- Sep-1969
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Phil Arnold, friendless middle-aged lag, who alone knows where half a million is hidden, needs protection - but good. He guts it with a vengance, from all sites....
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Kiss the Boss Goodbye
- Feb-1970
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He was dressed in black. The suit was elegant, but the black does not suit him. It was too fine color with pioneer's daughter. Edge of the skirt remained above the knee and dark stockings were very sexy ... Brenda had come to bid farewell to the boss...
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South American Sketches
- Mar-2010
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Spirit Machines
- Apr-2011
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SPIRIT MACHINES, Robert Crawford's fourth collection, attends imaginatively to the fusion of spiritual experience and the insistently material world. In several of the poems, emotional and religious insights merge lyrically with modern technologies o...
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The Tip of My Tongue
- Apr-2011
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Robert Crawford's new collection is an exhilarating celebration of the world he lives in: his family, his fellow Scots, his country and his country's languages. Beginning with a group of moving, renewing love poems to his wife, the book builds into a...
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Bannockburns
- Jan-2014
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Poet and critic Robert Crawford explores in eloquent detail the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism in the lead-up to the referendum on independence for Scotland from the United Kingdom in September 2014. He begins with the totemic B...
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Tatterdemalion
- Feb-2014
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In the fog-slicked back alleys of 1888 Whitechapel, an unprecedented evil abides. Scotland Yard, Parliament and even the Crown are jittery: Since the Trafalgar Sq occupation and brutal crackdown the year before, confidence in the police has never bee...
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The Book of Iona
- Aug-2016
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Writings about the Scottish island from throughout history and today, from the likes of novelists, poets, playwrights, saints, queens, and more. This anthology is comprised of creative prose, nonfiction, and poetry that ranges from St. Columba to the...
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Scottish Ambassador
- Aug-2018
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One of Scotland’s most celebrated poets, Robert Crawford has long been a passionate and articulate ambassador for his country and its culture, its people and its landscape. The Scottish Ambassador fuses individual and communal voices in poems that ...