Lear, Peter
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym used by UK detective and thriller author Peter Lovesey (1936- ), brother of Andrew Lovesey, for Goldengirl (1977), a Near Future tale about a young athlete bred (there are hints of Cultural Engineering) to win gold medals in the 1980 Olympics; also for Spider Girl (1980), about a researcher into spiders who begins to identify with her subjects. [JC]
Peter Harmer Lovesey
born Whitton, Middlesex: 1936
works (as Peter Lear only)
- Goldengirl (London: Cassell, 1977) [hb/]
- Spider Girl (London: Cassell, 1980) [hb/]
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