The Washington Post, November 23rd, 1994
Julian Symons, 82, the prize-winning mystery writer who said he sought to explore what he called the "respectable face of violence" in such novels as "The Color of Murder" and "The Progress of a Crime," died of cancer here Nov. 19. He lived at Walmer near Canterbury. In his writings, Mr. Symons was more interested in the tangled psychology of killers, victims and investigators than in leading readers through the genre's traditional crime-solving puzzles. "Up to 1943 almost all crime writers ... viewed criminals as objects, as wicked ciphers. ... Things are very different today. The criminal ca...
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