Gwen Moffat

Gwen Moffat (née Goddard; born 3 July 1924) is a British climber and writer.^[1]

Moffat was a free spirit who loved and lived the Bohemian lifestyle through the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, making a living from climbing, and becoming the first female British mountain guide. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, she was closely associated with the RAF Mountain Rescue Service in North Wales and helped train many young airmen, once she had agreed to wear boots! She described her life in her classic autobiography Space Below My Feet.^[2] She subsequently went on to write detective fiction, in particular the Miss Pink series featuring Melinda Pink, a middle aged magistrate and climber.

Works

• Space Below my Feet (1961)
• Two Star Red (1964)
• On My Home Ground (1968)
• Survival Count (1972)
• Deviant Death (1973)
• Lady with a Cool Eye (Melinda Pink) (1973)
• The Corpse Road (1974)
• Hard Option (1975)
• Miss Pink at the Edge of the World (Melinda Pink) (1975)
• A Short Time to Live (Melinda Pink) (1976)
• Over the Sea to Death (Melinda Pink) (1976)
• Persons Unknown (Melinda Pink) (1978)
• Hard Road West (1981)
• Die Like a Dog (Melinda Pink) (1982)
• The Buckskin Girl (1982)
• Last Chance Country (Melinda Pink) (1983)
• Grizzly Trail (Melinda Pink) (1984)
• Snare (1987)
• The Stone Hawk (Melinda Pink) (1989)
• The Storm Seekers (1989)
• Rage (Melinda Pink) (1990)
• The Raptor Zone (Melinda Pink) (1990)
• Pit Bull (1991)
• Veronica's Sisters (Melinda Pink) (1992)
• The Outside Edge (1993)
• Cue the Battered Wife (1994)
• A Wreath of Dead Moths (1998)
• The Lost Girls (Melinda Pink) (1998)
• Private Sins (1999)
• Running Dogs (1999)
• Quicksands (2001)
• Man Trap
• Dying for Love (2005)
• Gone Feral (2007)

References

1. Klein, Kathleen Gregory, ed. (Jan 1, 1994). Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313287708.
2. "The lifelong love that's put me on top of the world". Liverpool Daily Post. 2001-10-17. Retrieved 2010-08-04.