The Telling of Lies
1986 novel by Timothy Findley
0140241159The Telling of Lies is a 1986 novel by Timothy Findley.[1] A murder mystery, the novel centres on Vanessa Van Horne, a landscape architect who witnesses the apparent murder of pharmaceutical mogul Calder Maddox at the seaside Aurora Sands Hotel in Maine.[2]
Following the book's paperback publication in the United States in 1988, the novel won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original in 1989.[3]
References
- ^ "Summers of sand and Shonagon lend color to Findley's Lies". The Globe and Mail, November 15, 1986.
- ^ "The refined art of a story-teller". The Globe and Mail, October 25, 1986.
- ^ "U.S. crime writers honor Findley". The Globe and Mail, May 18, 1989.
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Works by Timothy Findley
- The Last of the Crazy People (1967)
- The Butterfly Plague (1969)
- The Wars (1977)
- Famous Last Words (1981)
- Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984)
- The Telling of Lies (1986)
- Headhunter (1993)
- The Piano Man's Daughter (1995)
- You Went Away (1996)
- Pilgrim (1999)
- Spadework (2001)
collections
- Dinner Along the Amazon (1984)
- Stones (1988)
- Dust to Dust (1997)
- The Paper People (1967)
- Don't Let the Angels Fall (1969)
- The Whiteoaks of Jalna (1972)
- The Newcomers (1977)
- Can You See Me Yet? (1977)
- Catsplay (1978)
- The Wars (1983)
- The Stillborn Lover (1993)
- The Trials of Ezra Pound (2000)
- Elizabeth Rex (2001)
- Shadows (2001)
- The National Dream (1974)
- Dieppe 1942 (1979)
- Inside Memory (1990)
- From Stone Orchard (1998)
- Journeyman: Travels of a Writer (2003)
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