Barrie Roberts (

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire ...

, 1939 – 2007)Barrie Roberts
at Fantasticfiction.co.uk was an English author, folk singer, freelance journalist, and criminal lawyer.

Biography

Born in

in 1939, Roberts was educated at

Churcher's College Churcher's College is an independent, fee-charging day school for girls and boys, founded in 1722. The Senior School (ages 11–18) is in the market town of Petersfield, Hampshire with the Junior School and Nursery (ages 2 years, 9 months–11) ...

. As a lawyer, Roberts worked for two firms in the West Midlands and at one he was a part of the appeal for the

Birmingham Six The Birmingham Six were six Irishmen who were each sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 following their false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. Their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory and quashed by the C ...

. As an instructor, Roberts taught courses on Ghosts and Unsolved Mysteries and has also lectured on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Roberts was a member of the Gypsy councilObituary: Barrie Roberts
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The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

and interested himself in the treatment of Gypsies and other travellers.

Bibliography

Chris Tyroll

*''Victory Snapshot'' (1997) *''Robbery With Malice'' (1999) *''Bad Penny Blues'' (2000) *''Crowner & Justice'' (2002)

Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Novels

*''

Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac ''Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac'' is a 1994 Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel by Barrie Roberts which pits Sherlock Holmes against an anarchist who is bombing trains.

'' (1994) *''Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Grail'' (1995) *''

Sherlock Holmes and the Man from Hell ''Sherlock Holmes and the Man from Hell'' is a 1997 Sherlock Holmes pastiches, Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel by Barrie Roberts.

'' (1997) *''Sherlock Holmes and the Royal Flush'' (1998) *''Sherlock Holmes and the Harvest Of Death'' (1999) *''Sherlock Holmes and the Crosby Murder'' (2001) *''Sherlock Holmes and the Rule of Nine'' (2003) *''Sherlock Holmes and the King's Governess'' (2005) *''Sherlock Holmes and the American Angels'' (2007)

Short stories

*''The Disappearance of Daniel Question'' (''

The Strand Magazine ''The Strand Magazine'' was a monthly British magazine founded by George Newnes, composed of short fiction and general interest articles. It was published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950, running to 711 issues, though the ...

'' #4 2000)''The Disappearance of Daniel Question''
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*''The Abbus Parva Tragedy: The Mystery of the Christmas Pie'' (''The Strand Magazine'' Christmas 2001) *''The Affair of the Christmas Jewel'' (''The Strand Magazine'' Christmas 2002) *''The Affair of the Christmas Candle'' (''The Strand Magazine'' Christmas 2003) *''The Mystery of the Addleton Curse'' (''The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures'') *''The Affair of the Weeping Child'' (''Unpublished'')Personal Correspondence

Non-fiction

*''Midland Ghosts and Hauntings'' (1994) *''Midland Murders and Mysteries'' (1997) *''Midland Spirits and Spectres'' (1998) *''Murder in the Midlands'' (2000) *''A Taste of Murder'' (2004)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Barrie 1939 births 2007 deaths Writers from Hampshire English essayists English crime fiction writers People educated at Churcher's College British male essayists English male novelists 20th-century English novelists 20th-century essayists 20th-century English male writers English male non-fiction writers 20th-century English lawyers