daily paper. That done, he decided it was time to again step down, and retired to return to writing. He was working on a novel set in Oxford and had just started his own blog when he came down with a respiratory illness and died on 17 June 2006. He lived in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Bibliography Kramer and Zondi novels The Steam Pig (1971) The Caterpillar Cop (1972) The Gooseberry Fool (1974) Snake (1975) The Sunday Hangman (1977) The Blood of an Englishman (1980) The Artful Egg (1984) The Song Dog (1991) Other novels Four and Twenty Virgins (1973) Rogue Eagle (1976) Imago: A Modern Comedy of Manners (1988) Short story and script collection (including The Steam Pig film adaptation) God It Was Fun (2014) Non-fiction books Killers: A Companion to the Thames Television Series By Clive Exton (1976) Spike Island: Portrait of a British Police Division (1980) Cop World: Inside an American Police Force (1984) External links Obituary, "The Guardian", 22 June 2006 1939 births 2006 deaths People from Johannesburg South African writers British crime fiction writers Alumni of Maritzburg College People from Wallingford, Oxfordshire Deaths from respiratory failure 20th-century British novelists