Thomas Eugene Gifford (May 16 1937 – October 31 2000) was a best-selling American author of thriller novels. Graduate of Harvard University. He gained international fame with the crime novel The Glendower Legacy and later with the Vatican thriller The Assassini, both making up challenging theories about George Washington being a British spy & the Roman Catholic Church being kind of a mafia organisation. The Glendower Legacy was made into a movie in 1981 under the name Dirty Tricks. Gifford also published under the names Dana Clarins and Thomas Maxwell. He died of cholangial carcinoma on Halloween in Dubuque, Iowa in 2000. He is survived by children, Thomas and Rachel Gifford of St. Paul, MN. Daughter is reported to be editing a hereto unpublished novel of Gifford's.
Bibliography
- 1975 – The Wind Chill Factor
- 1976 – The Cavanaugh Quest
- 1977 – The Man from Lisbon
- 1978 – The Glendower Legacy
- 1979 – Hollywood Gothic
- 1990 – The Assassini
- 1993 – Praetorian
- 1994 – The First Sacrifice
- 1996 – Saint's Rest
as Thomas Maxwell
- 1986 – Kiss Me Once
- 1987 – The Saberdene Variations
- 1988 – Kiss Me Twice
- 1990 – The Suspense Is Killing Me
as Dana Clarins
- 1984 – Woman in the Window
- 1985 – Guilty Parties
- 1986 – The Woman Who Knew Too Much
