Irish · 1923–2000
Patricia Moyes was a British mystery writer, born in Dublin in 1923. She worked as a writer and as an assistant to Peter Ustinov before turning to crime fiction. During the Second World War she served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and she later worked in film and at Vogue. Her first novel, Dead Men Don't Ski, appeared in 1959 and introduced Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett of Scotland Yard and his wife Emmy. She went on to write nineteen novels in the series, among them Murder a la Mode, Johnny Under Ground and Who Is Simon Warwick? Her books are traditional puzzles with fair clues, light humor and settings drawn from her travels, including the Alps and the Caribbean, where she later lived. She was nominated for Edgar Awards and served as president of the Crime Writers' Association of America chapter. Moyes died in 2000 in Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands.