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RAE, Hugh C(rawford). Also wrote as Robert Crawford; R. B. Houston; Stuart Stern. Scottish. Born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire 22 November 1935, died 24 September, 2014, in Glasgow, aged 78

Educated at Knightswood School. Glasgow, 1940-51. Served in the Royal Air Force (national service) 1953-54. Married Elizabeth McMillan Dunn in 1960; one daughter. Bookseller, John Smith and Son, Glasgow, 1954-64. President, Scottish Association of Writers, 1974-78. from 1975 Member, Scottish Arts Council. Agent: Fraser and Dunlop Scripts Ltd., 91 Regent Street, London WI R 8RU.

• Obituary - The Scotsman
• Hugh C. Rae's Editor Remembers the Scottish Bestseller

Novels

• Skinner. London. Blond. and New York. Viking Press. 1965.
• Night Pillow. London. Blond, and New York, Viking Press, 1967.
• A Few Small Bones. London, Blond, 1968; as The. House at Balnesmoor, New York. Coward McCann, 1969.
• The Interview. London. Blond. and New York, Coward McCann, 1969.
• The Saturday Epic. London. Blond, and New York. Coward McCann. 1970.
• The Marksman. London, Constable, and New York. Coward McCann, 1971.
• The Shooting Gallery London. Constable. and New York. Coward McCann. 1972.
• Two for the Grave(as R. B. Houston). London, Hale, 1972.
• The Rock Harvest. London, Constable. 1973.
• The Rookery. London, Constable. 1974; New York, St. Martin's Press. 1975.
• Harkfast The Making of a King. London, Constable, and New York, St. Martin's Press, 1976,
• The Minotaur Factor (as Stuart Stern). London. Futura, 1977; Chicago. Playboy Press. 1978.
• The Poison Tree (as Stuart Stern). London. Futura. and Chicago. Playboy Press. 1978.
• Sullivan. London, Constable, and Chicago, Playboy Press, 1978.
• The Travelling Soul. New York, Avon, 1978,
• The Haunting at Waverley Falls. London, Constable, 1980. .
• Privileged Strangers London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1982

a few small bones aka house at balnesmoor 1968 anthony blond	a few small bones aka house at balnesmoor 1969 coward mccann	a few small bones aka house at balnesmoor 1970 panther	a few small bones aka house at balnesmoor 1999 black dagger crime
haunting at waverley falls 1980 Contstable	haunting at waverley falls 1981 new english library	hawkfest 1976 st martins press NY	Hawkfest 1976 constable
hawkfest 1977 sphere london	hawkfest 1981 heyne verlag	The Interview 1968 Coward McCann	The Interview 1968 Anthony Blond
Marksman 1971 Constable London	marksman 1971 Coward McCann Geoghegan ny	marksman 1973 sphere	marksman 1973 sphere
marksman 1987 sphere	night pillow 1967 Anthony Blond	night pillow 1967 Viking Press	night pillow 1967 dell
night pillow 1972 penguin	Privileged Strangers 1982 Hodder and Stoughton	rock harvest 1973 constable london	rock harvest 1975 sphere
rookery 1975 st martins ny	rookery 1976 sphere	saturday epic 1970 anthony blond	saturday epic 1970 Coward-McCann
saturday epic 1972 Panther	The Shooting Gallery 1972 Coward McCann	shooting gallery 1972 constable london	shooting gallery 1973 sphere
shooting gallery 1973 Sphere	shooting gallery 1973 sphere	shooting gallery 2014 280 steps	skinner 1965 anthony blond
skinner 1965 viking	skinner 1966 Rizzoli	skinner 1967 Gallimard	skinner 1971 penguin books gb
skinner 1988 richard drew	skinner 1999 Payot	skinner 2001 rivages france	Sullivan 1978 Constable
sullivan 1978 playboy	sullivan 1979 futura	travelling soul 1978 avon books ny
As Stuart Stern
minator factor 1977 Futura London	minator factor 1977 futura	minator factor 1977 Playboy Press	poision tree 1978 playboy paperbacks
poision tree 1978 playboy paperbacks verso	poison tree 1978 futura

Novels as Robert Crawford

• The Shroud Society. London, Constable, and New York, Putnam. 1969.
• Cockleburr. London, Constable, 1969; New York, Putnam, 1970; as Pay as You Die. New York, Berkley, 1971.
• Kiss the Boss Goodbye. London, Constable, 1970; New York, Putnam, 1971.
• The Badger's Daughter. London, Constable, 1971.
• Whip Hand. London, Constable, 1972.

badger's daughter 1971 Constable crimes	badger's daughter 1974 sphere books	Cocleburr aka Pay as You Are 1969 berkley medallion	Cocleburr aka Pay as You Are 1969 berkley medallion
Cocleburr aka Pay as You Are 1969 Constable	Kiss the Boss Goodbye 1970 Constable	Kiss the Boss Goodbye 1974 Sphere	Kiss the Boss Goodbye 1974 Sphere
Shroud Society 1969 Constable Publishing	Shroud Society 1969 Constable Publishing	Shroud Society 1969 Constable Publishing	Shroud Society 1969 Putnam NY
Shroud Society 1997 black dagger crime	Whip Hand 1972 Constable	Whip Hand 1974 sphere

Novels as James Albany (Fighting Saga of SAS)

• Warrior Caste (1982)
• Mailed Fist (1982)
• Deacon's Dagger (1982)
• Close Combat (1983)
• Marching Fire (1983)
• Last Bastion (1984)
• Borneo Story (1984)

01 Warrior caste 1982	02 mailed fist 1982	03 deacons dagger 1982	04 close combat 1983
05 marching fire 1983	06 Last Bastion 1984	07 Borneo Story 1984

Plays

• The Freezer(broadcast1972 produced Leicester. 1973).
• Radio Play: The Freezer, 1972.

Television Plays:

• The Dear Ones. 1966;
• Swallowtale, 1969.

Other Writing

• Editor, with Philip Ziegler and James Allen Fort, Scottish Short Stories 1977. London, Collins, 1977.
• Editor, Scottish Short Stories 1978. London, Collins, 1978.
• A series of novels as Jessica Stirling

Dark Pasture 1978 Pan

Hugh C. Rae comments

There can be little enough to say about a person who has spent most of his life at a typewriter. Originally I made a technical and subjective differentiation between my "crime novels" and my "thrillers," publishing the latter titles under the name Robert Crawford. It was my belief that it might be possible, in Britain, to deliver material of some import in terms of theme and statement within the confines of the criminal roman, and my studies of the criminal and his victims in the early Rae novels are in effect studies of fragments of the Scottish environment and personality examined through the medium of the police investigation. A common enough technique but not one that goes down well either with serious critics, or with the reading public.

The lightweight guns'n'gals thrillers under the Crawford name were economically necessary if I were to remain a full-time writer. A branching out into "historical crime" with The Rookery, together with more experimental work in The Interview and The Rock Harvest led eventually to a broadening of the base, the "view of the fictional field," and to more complex medical/scientific thrillers (written with the direct help of a London doctor) under the name Stuart Stem. Most recently I have developed a keen interest in the "mythology" of international espionage and crime: a transatlantic approach. rather than a provincial one. Sullivan is an example.

My "technique" if it can be so called, is based on the synthesis of popularly available attitudes which I endeavour, to some degree or another. to turn around by using a supercharged and compacted language structure, a heightening of reality that creates a seriocomic irony between "Mass Image" and authentic historical fact between popularly disseminated "fictions" and how-it-is. At root, I'm interested in language and, through language, in character. Plot, per se, kind of follows on like a wooden duck on a string, though I am generally - now - inventive enough to bridge the credibility gap.

Quoted from Crime and Mystery Writers

Adaptions of his works

• The Marksman (1987)
• The Shroud Society as Man with a Gun (1995)