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CRIME FACTORYISSUE FOURTEENYour pre-writing career wasacademia and journalism,wasn’t it?Yes.Where did the shift take placeinto writing novels?I was working at the NationalTimes when the first of theHardy books came out in 1980.I was the literary editor,sending the books out, doingthe reviews, and also doingsome interviewing pieces,sports people, politicians…and the first book was asuccess, very well reviewed.That was The Dying Trade?That’s the one. And I’dalready finished the secondone because I enjoyed doingthe first one so much, and hadstarted a third one, and well,the ball just got rolling,even though it took aboutfive years for the first one toget published. I gave up thejournalism and was bringingin enough from the books andwriting short stories to getgoing. I should add I had aworking wife as well, whichwas helpful. In fact, I handedthe literary journalism jobover to her. That’s Jean(Bedford) of course, so sheworked at the National Times43