Barbara Paul

Barbara Jeanne Paul (June 5, 1931 – June 6, 2022) was an American writer of detective stories and science fiction. She was born in Maysville, Kentucky in 1931 and was educated at Bowling Green State University and the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied Theater History.

A number of her novels feature in-jokes: for example Full Frontal Murder borrows various names from the British TV series Blake's 7.

Paul lived near Boston, Massachusetts, and most recently in a retirement community in Marshfield. She died in 2022, at the age of 91.

Bibliography

Science fiction novels

• An Exercise for Madmen (1978)
• Pillars of Salt (1978)
• Bibblings (1979)
• Under the Canopy (1980)
• The Three-Minute Universe (1988) (a Star Trek novel)

Mystery novels

• The Fourth Wall (1979)
• Liars and Tyrants and People Who Turn Blue (1980)
• First Gravedigger (1980)
• Your Eyelids Are Growing Heavy (1981)
• Kill Fee (1985) (Later adapted into a 1990 TV-film Murder C.O.D..)
• But He Was Already Dead When I Got There (1986)
• In-laws and Outlaws (1990) (Later adapted into a 1997 TV-film Der Tusel der Furcht.)

Marian Larch mysteries

• The Renewable Virgin (1984)
• He Huffed and He Puffed (1989)
• Good King Sauerkraut (1989)
• You Have the Right To Remain Silent (1992)
• The Apostrophe Thief (1993)
• Fare Play (1995)
• Full Frontal Murder (1997)

Opera Mysteries

• A Cadenza for Caruso (1984)
• Prima Donna at Large (1985)
• A Chorus of Detectives (1987)
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Corpse (Short story, 1997)

Science fiction short stories

• Answer Affirmative or Negative (April 1972)
• The Untameable Part (May 1973)
• The Slow and Gentle Progress of Trainee Bell-Ringers (1978)
• The Seven Deadly Sessions (January 1981)
• Scarecrow Duty (March 1983)
• All the Dogs of Europe (September 1983)
• I Have To Wait for Ben Jonson (May 1990)
• The Secret (1993)
• The Comfort of Walls (1993)
• Never Moon a Werewolf (1995)
• Totally Tallulah (1995)
• Swimming the Moat (1996)
• Fatal Error 1000 (1996)
• Earth Surrenders (1997)
• Payback (1997)
• Shakespeare Minus One (1999)

Mystery short stories

• The Favor (July, 1976)
• Appetites( August, 1987)
• Archimedes and the Doughnuts (1991)
• Jack Be Quick (1991)
• Making Lemonade (1991)
• Scat (1991)
• Who What When Where Why (19919
• Homebodies (1992)
• Close, But No Cigar (1993)
• Ho Ho Ho (1993)
• Play Nice (March 1994)
• SpaceCat (1994)
• Okay, Diogenes, You Can Stop Looking -- We Found Him (1995)
• Peanut Butter and Kelly (April 1995)
• Midnight Sun (1995)
• French Asparagus (1996)
• The Sleuth of Christmas Past (1996)
• Sic Transit Gloria (August, 1997)
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Corpse (1997)
• Auld Lang What? (1997)
• Stet (1998)
• Go to the Devil (1998)
• The Secret President (1999)
• Clean Sweep (1999)
• The Reluctant Op (Sept/Oct, 1999)
• Eleemosynary, My Dear Watson (1999)
• Golden Retriever (Dec 2001)

References

• SFE. Retrieved June 14, 2022
• Barbara Paul's Homepage
• This text has been taken from the Wikipedia article Barbara Paul. Some links to other Wikipedia articles have been removed, other content has been added.

External links

• Homepage (now offline)
• Barbara Paul at Internet Speculative Fiction Database