Martin Cruise Smith, Bestseling Mystery, who has attached readers for decades with other thriller, who has been characterized by “Gorky Park” and other thriller characterized by Moscow investigator Arcadi Renco, died at the age of 82.
Smith died on Friday in a senior living community in San Rafael, California, “Surrounded by her loved ones,” her publisher, Simon and Shuster said in a statement. Smith revealed a decade ago that he had Parkinson’s diseaseAnd he gave the same condition to his hero. His 11th Renco Book, “Hotel Ukraine,” This week was published and the bill was made as his final.
“My long life is associated with Arkadi,” he told Strand Magazine in 2023. “As long as he remains intelligent, humorous and romantic, I.
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Smith was often praised for her story tell and her insight into modern Russia; He will talk about inquiries in length by customs authorities during many of his visits. The Associated Press called the “Hotel Ukraine” a “gem”, which “presents Smith’s reputation as a great craftsman of modern detective tale as a great craftsman with its sharp, complex characters and a compelling conspiracy.”
The honors of Smith were named “Grand Master” by the US Mystery Writers, won the Havana Bay “and a Gold Dagger Award for” Gorky Park “.
Reading, Pennsylvania -born Martin William Smith, studied creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and started as a journalist, which included a brief tenure in AP and a brief tenure in Philadelphia Daily News. Success as a writer gradually reached. He was a published novelist for more than a decade before he broke with “Gorky Park” in the early 1980s. His novel came to light when the Soviet Union and the Cold War were still very much alive and focused on investigating the killings of three people of Renco, whose bodies were found in Moscow Park which Smith used to title the book.
The Times’ Fiction is at the top of the Bestseller list, “Gorky Park,” was quoted as a reminder by the New York Times, “Just how the thriller can be satisfied with a smoothly,” Topping the Times Fiction Bestseller List and later made by William Hart in a film.
“Russia is a character in my Renco stories, always,” Smith told Publishers Weekly in 2013. ” Gorky Park ‘can be one of the first books to take a backdrop and make it in a character. It took me to write forever because of the need to write me forever.’
Other books of Smith include Science Fiction (“The Indians Won”), Western “North to Dakota” and “Ride to Revenge,” and “Romano Gray” Mystery Series. Apart from “Martin Cruise Smith” – Cruise was his grandmother’s name – he was also written as Penn named “Nick Carter” and “Simon Quin”.
Smith’s Renco’s books were inspired by their own journey and will explore the history of the region in the last 40 years, whether the collapse of the Soviet Union (“Red Square”), The Rise of Russian Aligarks (“Siberian Dilemma”), or, in the novel “Volves Eats Dogs,” 19866666666666666.
By the time he started working on his last novel, Russia attacked Ukraine. The AP mentioned in its review of the “Hotel Ukraine” that Smith recently designed a backstory directly from the headlines, “such world leaders referring to such world leaders as Volodimir Zelanski of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin of Russia and former President of America who Biden.
Smith is alive by his brother, Jack Smith; His wife, Emily Smith; Three children and five grandchildren.
