André Joseph Launay was a novelist, essayist, humourist and dramatist of French descent who wrote in English under the pen names André Launay, Drew Launay, Andrew Laurance and Drew Lamark.
He was the author of family dramas, psychic thrillers, humour and travel books published in the United Kingdom and in the US. Launay lived in Nerja, in the south of Spain until his death; He had three children: record producer Nick Launay, film director Matthew Launay, artist and illustrator Melissa Launay, and four grandchildren; Lee, Lana, Nicolas & Samuel.
Fiction The New Shining White Murder A Corpse in Camera Death and Still Life The Scream The Premonition The Link The Unborn Catacomb Ouija The Black Hotel The Girl with a Peppermint Taste The Innocence Has Gone, Daddy The Snake Orchards The Medusa Horror The Latchkey Children (hard & paperback) The Harlequin’s Son (hard & paperback) Seance She Modelled Her Coffin (Linford Mystery Library) The Two-Way Mirror The Olive Groves of Alhora (with Maria Isabel Rodriguez) The Maestro of Alhora (with Maria Isabel Rodriguez)
Non-fiction Caviare and After Dictionary of Contemporaries Historic Air Disasters Eat, Drink and Be Sorry Morocco Madrid & Southern Spain The Other You Bluffers Guide to Antiques (paperback) The Xenophobe's Guide to the Spanish (Paperback)
Xenophobe's Guides French for Xenophobes: Xenophobe's Lingo Learners (paperback) Spanish for Xenophobes: Xenophobe's Lingo Learners (paperback) German for Xenophobes: Xenophobe's Lingo Learners (paperback) Italian for Xenophobes: Xenophobe's Lingo Learners (paperback)
Stage plays The Man on a Balcony The Aimless Come Into My Bed Yes, We Have no Pyjamas A Farce in his Ear, (with Anthony Marriott)
Screenplays The Girl With a Peppermint Taste (for Carter DeHaven) Hideous Whispers (for Hammer) Black Hotel (for Hammer) The Latchkey Children (for Joe Manuel Productions) The Harlequin's Son (for Rocket Pictures)
Radio broadcasts Siesta Days, Fiesta Nights. BBC Radio Four.
Television The Man on a Balcony If the Crown Fits series with Robert Morley.
Documentary Film The Chef of the Dorchester (Look at Life.)
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