William Deverell
William Herbert Deverell (born March 4, 1937) is a Canadian writer, criminal lawyer, and civil liberties activist. One of Canada's best-known novelists, his debut novel ''Needles'', based on his legal experience, won the $50,000 Seal First Novel Award from
McClelland & Stewart. He received the
Hammett Prize in 1998 for ''Trial of Passion'', which also won the 1998
Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel; ''April Fool'' won the same award in 2003. ''Trial of Passion'' launched his long-running crime series about Arthur Beauchamp, a classically trained, self-doubting barrister who solves crimes in releases such as ''April Fool'', ''Kill All the Judges'', ''Snow Job'', ''I'll See You in My Dreams'', ''Sing a Worried Song'', ''Whipped'', and ''Stung''.
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