Edit] Writing for television and film

Horowitz began writing for television in the 1980s, 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 1990s.

Often his work has a comic edge, such as with the comic murder anthology Murder Most Horrid (BBC Two, 1991) and the comedy-drama The Last Englishman (1995), starring Jim Broadbent. From 1997, he wrote the majority of the episodes in the early series of Midsomer Murders. 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 sometimes derided science-fiction shows, Crime Traveller (1997) for BBC One and The Vanishing Man (pilot 1996, series 1998) for ITV. While Crime Traveller received favourable viewing figures it was not renewed for a second season, which Horowitz accounts to temporary personnel transitioning within the BBC. It has, however, attracted somewhat of a cult following.^{[citation needed]} The successful 2002 launch of the detective series Foyle's War, set during the Second World War, helped to restore his reputation as one of Britain's foremost writers of popular drama.^{[citation needed]}

He devised the 2009 ITV crime drama Collision and co-wrote the screenplay with Michael A. Walker.

Horowitz is the writer of a feature film screenplay, The Gathering, which was released in 2002 and starred Christina Ricci. He wrote the screenplay for Alex Rider's first major motion picture, Stormbreaker.

In an interview with BBC Radio 5 on 6 April 2011, Horowitz announced that he was writing the sequel to Steven Spielberg's Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. The sequel is rumoured to be based on the Tintin comic Prisoners of the Sun and directed by Peter Jackson, who produced the first film.

Edit] Bibliography

Edit] Groosham Grange

• Groosham Grange (1988)
• The Unholy Grail (also released as Return To Groosham Grange) (1990)

Edit] Alex Rider

Main article: Alex Rider

• Stormbreaker (2000)
• Point Blanc (U.S. title: Point Blank) (2001)
• Skeleton Key (2002)
• Eagle Strike (2003)
• Alex Rider: Secret Weapon (short story, 2003)
• Scorpia (2004)
• Ark Angel (2005)
• Snakehead (2007)
• Crocodile Tears (2009)
• Scorpia Rising (2011)

Edit] The Diamond Brothers

• The Falcon's Malteser (1986/96)
• Public Enemy Number Two (1987)
• South By South East (1991/2002)
• The Blurred Man (2003)
• The French Confection (2003)
• I Know What You Did Last Wednesday (2003)
• The Greek Who Stole Christmas (2008)
• The Radius of the Lost Shark (Forthcoming)

Edit] Pentagram

• The Devil's Door-Bell (1983)
• The Night of the Scorpion (1983)
• The Silver Citadel (1986)
• Day of the Dragon (1989)

[edit] The Power of Five (The Gatekeepers)

Edit] Other novels

• Enter Frederick K Bower (1978)
• The Sinister Secret of Frederick K Bower (1979)
• Misha, the Magician and the Mysterious Amulet (1981)
• Robin of Sherwood: The Hooded Man (1986) (with Richard Carpenter)
• Adventurer (1987)
• New Adventures of William Tell (1987)
• Starting Out (1990)
• Granny (1994)
• The Switch (1996)
• The Devil And His Boy (1998)
• Half-Life (2001)

Edit] Adult novels

• William S. (1999)
• Mindgame (2001) (adapted later as a play)
• The Killing Joke (2004)
• The Magpie Murders (2006)
• The House of Silk (Nov, 2011)

Edit] Collections

• Myths and Legends (1991)
• Horowitz Horror (1999)
• More Horowitz Horror (2001)
• The Kingfisher Book of Myths and Legends (2003)
• Three of Diamonds (2004)
• More Bloody Horowitz (2009)^[23]

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