Martin Cruz Smith, the best-selling mystery novelist, interacts with readers for decades Gorky Park There are other thrillers featuring Moscow investigator Arkady Renko at the age of 82.
According to his publishers Simon & Schuster, Smith was “surrounded by his loved ones” in a senior living community in San Rafael, California on Friday.
Smith revealed he had Parkinson’s disease a decade ago, and he provided the protagonist with the same condition. His 11th End of Renko Ukrainian Hotelspublished this week and is called his last.
He told Strand Magazine in 2023: “My longevity is related to Arcadi’s longevity.
Smith is often praised for his storytelling and his insights into modern Russia. He would say that customs officials would ask in detail during his many trips.
The Associated Press said Ukrainian Hotels A “gem” that “holds Smith’s reputation as a great craftsman in modern detective novels, he draws distinct, complex characters and compelling plots.”
Beginning as a reporter
Smith’s honors include being named “Master” by American Mysterious Writer and winning the Hammert Award Havana Bay and the Golden Dagger Award Gorky Park.
Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Martin William Smith, he studied creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and started as a journalist, which included brief work on the Associated Press and Philadelphia Daily News.
As an author’s success slowly arrives. In the early 1980s, he was a published novelist for more than ten years Gorky Park.
When the Soviet Union and the Cold War were still very active, his novel came out and centered on Renko’s investigation into the murders of three bodies, whose bodies were found in the title of the book Smith used.
Gorky Parkcited by The New York Times to remind “the satisfactory thriller that just happens to be satisfying.” A list of bestsellers of novels from the Times, a movie that was later starred by William Hurt.
Watch | According to Smith’s best-selling novel, the trailer for the 1983 film version of Gorky Park:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2xo39vz01m
“Russia has always been a character in my Lunko story,” Smith told Publishers Weekly in 2013.
“Gorky Park Probably one of the earliest books to be back and become a character. I spent me writing forever because I needed to get things right. You have to remove the question “This guy knows what he is talking about?”
Smith’s other books include science fiction (The Indians win), Westerners North to Dakota and Revenge and Romano Gray Mysterious series.
In addition to “Martin Cruz Smith” – Cruz is his grandmother’s name – he also wrote the pen name “Nick Carter” and “Simon Quinn”.
Inspired by his trip
Part of Smith’s Renko book is inspired by his own travels, and he will trace the history of the region over the past 40 years, regardless of the Soviet Union’s collapse (Red square), the rise of Russian oligarchs (Siberian dilemma) or, in the novel Wolf eats dogThe Chornobyl disaster of 1986.
By the time he began to write his last novel, Russia invaded Ukraine.
AP notes in its comments Ukrainian Hotels Smith designed a backstory “stand out of recent headlines” referring to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and former U.S. President Joe Biden
Smith’s brother, Jack Smith, survived. His wife, Emily Smith; three children and five grandchildren.
