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'André Joseph Launay' (born 12th December 1930) is a French born author of many novels, works of non-fiction, humour and stage
plays who writes in English under the pen names André Launay & Drew Launay as well as pseudonyms Andrew Laurance and Drew Lamark. He is the author of domestic trauma, psychic thriller novels, humour and travel books published in the UK and US. Launay lives in Nerja, in the South of Spain; He has three children: record producer Nick Launay, film director Matthew Launay & artist/illustrator Melissa Launay.

Contents

Fiction

Non-Fiction

Stage Plays

Screenplays

Radio broadcasts

Television

Fiction

★ ''The Girl with a Peppermint Taste. (Hard & Paperback - 1972)

★ ''The Innocence Has Gone , Daddy. (Hard & Paperback - 1973)

★ ''The Snake Orchards (Hard & Paperback - 1984)

★ ''The Medusa Horror (Hard & Paperback - 1985)

★ ''The Latchkey Children (Hard & Paperback - 1986)

★ ''The Harlequin’s Son'' (Hard & Paperback -1989)

★ ''Seance'' (May ’91 [Apr ’91] cover by George Underwood) Occult thriller.

★ The Black Hotel (7, Aug ’90 [Jul ’90]) Horror novel of a haunted hotel. First American edition (Star 1983).

★ ''The Blood of Nostradamus: The Premonition'' (May ’91 [Apr ’91]) [Blood of Nostradamus] Horror novel, first book of a series about Nostradamus’ descendants. First American edition (1979 as Premonitions of an Inherited Mind).

★ ''The Blood of Nostradamus: The Link'' (Aug ’91)[Blood of Nostradamus] Horror novel, second book of the “Blood of Nostradamus” trilogy. First American edition (Star 1980 as The Link).

★ ''The Blood of Nostradamus: The Unborn'' (Oct ’91 [Sep ’91] pb)[Blood of Nostradamus] Horror novel, third book of a series about Nostradamus’ descendants. First American edition (Star 1980 as The Embryo).

★ ''Catacomb'' ( Feb ’91 [Jan ’91]pb) Horror novel of a man who can see death in the faces of its soon-to-be victims. First American edition (W.H. Allen 1981 as The Hiss).

★ ''Ouija'' (Nov ’90 [Oct ’90], pb) Horror novel of the evils lurking in wait for anyone who uses the deadly board. First American edition (Star 1982).

★ ''A Corpse in Camera'' (Linford Mystery) by Drew Launay (Paperback - Sep 2001)

★ ''Death and Still Life'' (Linford Mystery) by Drew Launay (Paperback - Jul 2001)

★ ''New Shining White Murder'' (Linford Mystery Library) by Drew Launay (Paperback - Feb 2001)

★ ''The Scream'' (Linford Mystery Library) by Drew Launay (Paperback - Jan 2002)

★ ''She Modelled Her Coffin'' (Linford Mystery Library) by Drew Launay (Paperback - May 2001)

★ ''The Two-Way Mirror'' by Drew Launay (Paperback - Jan 2002)

★ ''The Olive Groves of Almijara (Paperback - 2007)

Non-Fiction

★ ''Caviare and After (1966)

★ ''Dictionary of Contemporaries (1967)

★ ''Historic Air Disasters (1967)

★ ''Eat, Drink and Be Sorry. (1968)

★ ''Morocco- (1973)

★ ''Madrid & Southern Spain. (1974)

★ ''The Other You - (1986.)

★ ''Bluffers Guide to Antiques (Paperback - 1970)

★ ''The Xenophobe's Guide to the Spanish'' (Paperback - Mar 1999)

★ ''French for Xenophobes: Xenophobe's Lingo Learners''(Paperback - Mar 1, 2004)

★ ''Spanish for Xenophobes: Xenophobe's Lingo Learners''(Paperback - Mar 1, 2004)

★ ''German for Xenophobes: Xenophobe's Lingo Learners'' (Paperback - April 1, 2004)

★ ''Italian for Xenophobes: Xenophobe's Lingo Learners'' (Paperback - Jul 1, 2006)

Stage Plays

The Man on a Balcony. 1955
The Aimless. 1958
Come Into My Bed. 1976
Yes, We Have no Pyjamas. 1979.
A Farce in his Ear, (with Anthony Marriott) 1991.

Screenplays

The Girl With a Peppermint Taste (for Carter De Haven )
Hideous Whispers (for Hammer.)
Black Hotel (for Hammer)
The Latchkey Children ( for Joe Manuel Productions)
The Harlequin's Son (for Rocket Pictures.)

Radio broadcasts

Siesta Days, Fiesta Nights. BBC 1993

Television

The Man on a Balcony. 1955
If the Crown Fits. Series with Robert Morley. 1958.
==''Documentary Film'' =
The Chef of the Dorchester ( Look at Life. 1960.)