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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Obituaries / Christopher Fowler

 

Christopher Fowler: Time Out called him ‘an award-winning novelist who would make a good serial killer’. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian



Christopher Fowler Obituary

Author of the Bryant & May detective novels, short stories and essays on forgotten writers – including himself

Steve Holland
20 March 2023

In a brief biographical sketch, the crime writer Christopher Fowler, who has died aged 69, claimed he had achieved several of his “pathetic schoolboy fantasies”: releasing an “appalling” Christmas pop single; working as a male model; posing as the villain in a Batman graphic novel; running a Soho night club; appearing in The Pan Book of Horror series; and standing in for James Bond. Rather than examples of Fowler’s wicked sense of humour, all these claims were true. Time Out, meanwhile, called him “an award-winning novelist who would make a good serial killer”.