Basil Copper

Basil Copper (1924-2013) was an English writer of horror, fantasy and detective fiction, born in London. A former journalist and newspaper editor, he became a full-time writer in 1970.

He is best known for his Mike Faraday hard-boiled detective series, for continuing August Derleth's Solar Pons pastiches of Sherlock Holmes, and for horror novels such as The Great White Space (1975) and Necropolis (1980). He also ghostwrote two Phantom novels for Lee Falk and edited an Arkham House omnibus of Derleth's Solar Pons stories.

In 2010 he received the World Horror Convention's first Lifetime Achievement Award.