Kelvin Barry "Kel" Richards (born 8 February 1946) is an Australian author, journalist, radio personality and lay Christian.
Richards has written a series of
crime novel
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, ...
s and
thrillers for adult readers which includes ''The Case of the Vanishing Corpse'', ''Death in Egypt'' and ''An Outbreak of Darkness''.
Richards presented
ABC NewsRadio
ABC NewsRadio, since 2017 broadcast under the ABC News brand and for a short time known as ABC News on Radio, is a 24-hour news radio service broadcast by the Australian public broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). ABC ...
's weekend afternoons, which included regular ''Wordwatch'' segments until 15 August 2010. Wordwatch was a feature introduced by Richards. Initially developed as a "filler" program for the radio programs to allow time for changes of people or locations, it tapped into an interest by the listening public and several books have been produced based on the show's research. In November 2003 the thousandth episode of the show was produced.
Kel Richards currently presents Sydney radio station
2CH's Sunday night program "Sunday Night with Kel Richards".
He is a lay canon at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, and the author of the Aussie Bible, which has sold over 100,000 copies. This book translates sections of the Bible into Australian vernacular ('strine').
Bibliography
Crime novels
Ben Bartholomew series
* ''The Case of the Vanishing Corpse'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1990)
* ''The Case of the Secret Assassin'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1992)
* ''The Case of the Damascus Dagger'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1994)
* ''The Case of the Dead Certainty'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1995)
Mark Roman mysteries
* ''The Second Death'' (Coronet Books, 1993)
* ''The Third Bloodstain'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1995)
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...
: Tales of Terror
* ''Curse of the Pharaohs'' (Beacon Communications, c. 1997)
* ''The Headless Monk'' (Beacon Communications, c. 1997)
* ''The Vampire Serpent'' (Beacon, 1997)
C.S. Lewis
CS, C-S, C.S., Cs, cs, or cs. may refer to:
Job titles
* Chief Secretary (Hong Kong)
* Chief superintendent, a rank in the British and several other police forces
* Company secretary, a senior position in a private sector company or public se ...
mysteries
* ''C.S. Lewis and the Body in the Basement'' ( Strand Publishing, 2013)
* ''C.S. Lewis and the Country House Murders'' (2014)
* ''The Floating Corpse'' (Strand Publishing, 2015)
* ''The Sinister Student : A 1930s Murder Mystery'' (Marylebone House, 2016)
Other works
* ''Moonlight Shadows'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1994)
* ''Death in Egypt : a Murder Mystery'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1996)
Short stories
* ''"The Amateur Hangman"'', ''More Crimes for a Summer Christmas'' edited by Stephen Knight (1991)
Adaptations
* ''The Ballad of the Two Sons'' (Anzea Publishers, c 1993) illustrated by Meng
* ''Aussie Yarns '' (c. 2004)
* ''Aussie Pilgrim's Progress : John Bunyan's immortal story'' (2006)
* ''An Aussie Christmas Carol : Charles Dickens' immortal tale retold as an Aussie bush yarn'' (2007)
Children's picture book
"The Lamington Man" (1997) with Glen Singleton
Non-fiction
* ''ABC Classic FM's Word of the Day'' (2004) with
Clive Robertson
* ''The Story of Australian English''
* ''Word Map: What words are Used Where in Australia'' (ABC Books, 2005) with the Macquarie Dictionary
* ''Word of the day 2: Wordwatching: a Wonderful Look Into the World of Words'' (ABC Books, 2006)
Television writing
* ''Murder Call'' TV episodes
:: – Deadfall (1998)
:: – A Blow to the Heart (1999)
:: – House of Spirits (2000)
:: – A Stab in the Dark (2000)
Notes
References
Austlit – Richards, Kel
External links
''Kel Richards Books''
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Australian crime writers
Australian mystery writers
Australian children's writers
Australian male short story writers
Australian lexicographers
Living people
1946 births
ABC radio (Australia) journalists and presenters