James Melville (disambiguation)

"James Melville" is composed of at least 2 distinct authors, divided by their works.

Author Division

James Melville (1)

Japanese Short Stories (2000) 110 copies
The Wages of Zen (1979) 107 copies, 2 reviews
The Chrysanthemum Chain (1980) 87 copies, 2 reviews
The Ninth Netsuke (1982) 77 copies
A Sort of Samurai (1981) 76 copies, 1 review
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000) — Contributor — 76 copies, 1 review
Death of a Daimyo (1984) 74 copies
The Bogus Buddha (1990) 73 copies, 1 review
A Haiku for Hanae (1989) 72 copies, 2 reviews
The death ceremony (1985) 71 copies
The Reluctant Ronin (1988) 70 copies, 1 review
Sayonara, Sweet Amaryllis (1983) 69 copies, 3 reviews
1st Culprit : A Crime Writers' Association Annual (1992) — Contributor — 64 copies
Kimono for a Corpse (1987) 64 copies, 1 review
Go Gently, Gaijin (1986) 63 copies, 1 review
The Body Wore Brocade (1992) 53 copies, 1 review
3rd Culprit : An Annual of Crime Stories (1994) — Contributor — 44 copies, 1 review
The Verdict of Us All (2006) — Contributor — 24 copies
Imperial Way (1986) 11 copies
The Reluctant Spy (1995) 4 copies
High Stand | Nobody Here by That Name | Go Gently, Gaijin (1986) 3 copies
The Kentish Manor Murders | The Reluctant Ronin | Bernhardt's Edge (1988) 3 copies
A Tarnished Phoenix (1990) 3 copies
Diplomatic Baggage (1994) 2 copies
Sayonara, Sweet Amaryllis | The Annalise Experiment | The Night They Murdered Chelsea (1984) 2 copies
Programmed for Murder 1 copy
Kimono for a Corpse | Treble Exposure | The Last of the Honeywells — Contributor — 1 copy
Angel of Death | Death of a Daimyo | The Gold Frame (1984) 1 copy

James Melville (2)

James Melville (unknown)

Common Knowledge

Disambiguation notice
#1 James Melville, author of Wages of Zen, is a pseudonym used by Roy Peter Martin 1931-2014, a British diplomat who has spent most of his life in Japan. He also wrote 3 mysteries in the "Heron Carvic's Miss Seeton series, under the name Hampton Charles. These author names should not be combined due to the existence of other authors called James Melville.

#2 James Melville 1556-1614 (also known as James Melvill) was the author of Short Relation of the State of the Kirk in Scotland.

The works of #3 Sir James Melville 1535-1617 at the moment are on his separate author page.