Mark McShane

Mark McShane (28 November 1929 – 28 August 2013) was an Australian author best known for the novel Seance on a Wet Afternoon. The New York Times called McShane "another of the brighter authors to emerge in the 1960's... who invents wonderful titles."

He sometimes wrote under the name "Marc Lovell".

Selected writings

Myra Savage Mystery Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1961) - filmed in 1964, 2000, and 2026 Seance for Two (1972)

Norman Pink The Girl Nobody Knows (1965) Night's Evil (1966) The Way to Nowhere (1967)

Andrew Bailey Mystery (as Marc Lovell) A Presence in the House (1972) Hand Over Mind (1980)

Jason Galt Mystery (as Marc Lovell) The Blind Hypnotist (1976) The Second Vanetti Affair (1977)

Appleton Porter Mystery (as Marc Lovell) The Spy Game (1980) Spy On the Run (1982) The Spy With His Head in the Clouds (1982) Apple Spy in the Sky (1983) - filmed as The Trouble with Spies (1987) Apple to the Core (1983) How Green Was My Apple (1984) The Only Good Apple in a Barrel of Spies (1982) The Spy Who Got His Feet Wet (1985) Good Spies Don't Grow On Trees (1986) The Spy Who Barked In The Night (1986) - "Lovell's genius is his ability to write hilarious farce without losing either credibility or suspense" That Great Big Trenchcoat in the Sky (1988) The Spy Who Fell Off the Back of a Bus (1988) Ethel and the Naked Spy(1989) Comfort Me With Spies (1990)

Other novels The Straight and Crooked (1960) - first novel The Passing of Evil (1961) - filmed as The Grasshopper (1970) Untimely Ripped (1962) The Crimson Madness of Little Doom (1966) The Ghost of Megan (1968) (as Marc Lovell) aka The Memory of Megan Ill Met By a Fish Shop On George Street (1968) The Singular Case of the Multiple Dead (1970) The Imitation Thieves (1971) (as Marc Lovell) The Man Who Left Well Enough (1971) An Enquiry Into the Existence of Vampires (1974) (as Marc Lovell) aka Vampire in the Shadows Dreamers in a Haunted House (1975) (as Marc Lovell) Lashed But Not Leashed (1976) The Guardian Spectre (1977) (as Marc Lovell) Fog Sinister (1977) (as Marc Lovell) A Voice from the Living (1978) (as Marc Lovell) The Halcyon Way (1979) And They Say You Can't Buy Happiness (1979) (as Marc Lovell) The Hostage Game (1979) Shadows and Dark Places (1980) (as Marc Lovell) The Last Seance (1982) (as Marc Lovell) Looking for Kingford (1983) (as Marc Lovell) Just a Face in the Dark (1987) Once Upon a Fairy Tale (1990) Mourning Becomes the Hangman (1991) The Fourth Nail (2002) The Man Who Made Love (2003)