QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS

ARTS COUNCIL

 

 

 

§    WILLIAM DEVERELL

 

 

Mr. Deverell, a prolific crime novel writer began his successful detective series after a career as a criminal lawyer which included 30 murder trials.  His first legal thriller, Needles, won the $50,000 Seal Prize.  Then followed Trial of Passion, which featured his B.C. Queen’s Counsel Arthur Beauchamp—a “colourful Rumpole-like lawyer/detective.”  Beauchamp appears again in April Fool, which won the Arthur Ellis Award, and in Kill all the Judges.  His last novel is set in the Gulf Islands and is described as a hilarious tale of madness, mayhem, and murder.  Mr. Deverell’s more than a dozen crime novels are written with a unique twist of humour.  Mr. Deverell also created the long-running CBC-TV series Street Legal. 

 

The QCI Arts Council sponsored two free public readings:  Thursday, September 4th at Jessie Simpson Public Library in Masset, and on Friday, September 5th at Queen Charlotte Visitor Centre.  Both were well attended, as was the workshop, “The Mystery Unfolds,” which was given on Saturday, September 6th in Tlell at Sitka Studio. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


                                              

                                                                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                       

 

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