David Roberts (1944 – 18 December 2025) was an English editor and novelist.
Roberts worked for several years as a book editor at Chatto and Windus, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Michael O'Mara Books. Since 2000, he had been a full-time writer, best known for a series of crime novels set during the late 1930s, and featuring the joint adventures of Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne. The novels use actual historical events as a backdrop and there is an Author's Note at the back of the books briefly outlining what happened to the historical characters subsequently.
Publishers Weekly described his novels as "well-researched" and "first-rate fun".
Robets died aged 81 on 18 December 2025.
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Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne series:
Sweet Poison (2001) Bones of the Buried (2001) Hollow Crown (2002) Dangerous Sea (2003) The More Deceived (2004) A Grave Man (2005) The Quality of Mercy (2006) Something Wicked (2007) No More Dying (2008) Sweet Sorrow (2009)
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