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Anthony Horowitz (born April 5 , 1955 ) is a British Author and Television Scriptwriter . His most successful work has included creating and writing the series '' Foyle's War '' for ITV and writing several episodes of another ITV series, '' Midsomer Murders ''. Both of these are detective murder mystery series. He is also the author of the highly successful '' Alex Rider '' series of adventure novels for children. He began writing for television in the 1980 s, contributing to the children's anthology series '' Dramarama '', and also writing for the popular fantasy series '' Robin Of Sherwood ''. His association with murder mysteries began with the adaptation of several Hercule Poirot stories for ITV 's popular '' Agatha Christie's Poirot '' series during the 1990 s. Often his work has a comic edge, such as with the comic murder anthology '' Murder Most Horrid '' ( BBC Two , 1991 ), the comedy-drama ''The Last Englishman'' ( 1995 ), starring Jim Broadbent , and his 2004 book, ''The Killing Joke''. In 2001 he created a drama anthology series of his own for the BBC , ''Murder in Mind'', an occasional series which deals with a different set of characters and a different murder every one-hour episode. He is also less-favourably known for the creation of two short-lived and generally derided Science-fiction Shows , '' Crime Traveller '' ( 1997 ) for BBC One and ''The Vanishing Man'' (pilot 1996 , series 1998 ) for ITV . The successful launch of the Second World War -set detective series ''Foyle's War'' in 2002 helped to restore his reputation as one of Britain's foremost writers of popular drama. He is also the writer of a feature film screenplay, ''The Gathering'', which was released in 2002 and starred Christina Ricci . Anthony Horowitz also writes the Alex Rider books, which are about a 14-year old boy becoming a Spy . Currently, there are 6 Alex Rider books ('' Stormbreaker '', '' Point Blanc '', '' Skeleton Key '', '' Eagle Strike '', '' Scorpia '' and '' Ark Angel ''). The 6th book, ''Ark Angel'', was released on April 1 , 2005 , and ''Stormbreaker'' has been adapted into a film which is set to be released on July 21 2006 in UK , and on September 1 2006 in the USA with a screenplay by Horowitz himself. His series ''The Diamond Brothers'' is aimed at slightly younger children than the Alex Rider books and consists of: ''The Falcon's Malteser'', '' Public Enemy Number Two '' and ''South by South East''. He has also written three novellas featuring the Diamond Brothers called ''The Blurred Man'', ''The French Confection'' and ''I Know What You Did Last Wednesday''. He also wrote two books that were intended to form the beginnigs of another series, ''Groosham Grange'' and ''Return to Groosham Grange''. These were partially based on the years he spent at the then baording school Orley Farm School . The books star a thirteen year-old magician, David Elliot, who lives with unpleasant relatives. More recently, he has released another book called ''Raven's Gate'' which is beginning of another series entitled ''The Power of Five''. He describes it as "Alex Rider with devils and witches". The second book in the series, ''Evil Star'', has also been released. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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